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Guillaume Williams

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Aug 27, 2022, 10:55:36 AM8/27/22
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Is Vuiedos an Azores/Portuguese surname? Is this perhaps a French or Spanish version of Portuguese surname? If so, what would the Portuguese spelling be? Thanks.

Cheri Mello

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Aug 27, 2022, 12:21:07 PM8/27/22
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I have never encountered that surname. The only Portuguese surname beginning with "Vu" that Guill lists in his book is Vultão. The only other name I see in the Vs that's remotely close (REMOTELY) is Varedes and I've never seen that one in my research either.
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Is Vuiedos an Azores/Portuguese surname? Is this perhaps a French or Spanish version of Portuguese surname? If so, what would the Portuguese spelling be? Thanks.

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Jorge Aparicio

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Aug 28, 2022, 12:15:57 AM8/28/22
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Guillaume,
Can you give the link of the document you
found that name , or at least a photo with
good resolution? 

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             Jorge 


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Is Vuiedos an Azores/Portuguese surname? Is this perhaps a French or Spanish version of Portuguese surname? If so, what would the Portuguese spelling be? Thanks.

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Ângela Loura

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Aug 28, 2022, 10:49:06 AM8/28/22
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Is there a way for you to show us a phonetic version of that name? I'm not sure how it would sound like... 

A domingo, 28 de ago de 2022, 05:16, Jorge Aparicio <jorge.p...@gmail.com> escreveu:

Guillaume,
Can you give the link of the document you
found that name , or at least a photo with
good resolution? 

I remain,

             Jorge 

El sábado, 27 de agosto de 2022, Guillaume Williams <johnt...@gmail.com> escribió:
Is Vuiedos an Azores/Portuguese surname? Is this perhaps a French or Spanish version of Portuguese surname? If so, what would the Portuguese spelling be? Thanks.

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Guillaume Williams

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Aug 28, 2022, 10:49:16 AM8/28/22
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Unfortunately no. It is in the Baton Rouge Archdiocese record books. As far as I know they are not digitized online.

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Guillaume,
Can you give the link of the document you
found that name , or at least a photo with
good resolution? 

I remain,

             Jorge 

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Guillaume Williams

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Aug 28, 2022, 10:49:29 AM8/28/22
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Actually I was wrong. I did find his marriage in the St. Louis Cathedral Archive of New Orleans, but here his mother's name looks like Maria. His parents' names also must be on a baptism. I'll have to look for that, the one that list it Vuiedos.
juan garcia and Maria courtain.jpg

Cheri Mello

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Aug 28, 2022, 12:05:58 PM8/28/22
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It says on 4 Sep 1785 that Juan Garcia (João Garcia in Portuguese), native of Fayal (modern spelling is Faial), son of Josef Garcia (José Garcia in Portuguese) and Josefa Maria married Maria Francisca Countin (? not sure on that) daughter of Luis Countin (?) and Maria Josefa Martin natives of Yrlanda??  That's the best I can remember from my high school Spanish days.

The CITCEM site housed at the University of Minho has indexed many of the freguesias of Faial. They are missing Castelo Branco and Flamengos:

Martine Ferrere indexed Flamengos:

That just leaves Castelo Branco to search by hand.

NOTE: Praia do Norte's records don't go back to the 1700s, so you can skip that one.

Search by the father of the groom, Jose Garcia. I'd do Jose Gracia for good measure too. Typos happen. You want the Jose Garcia who is married to Josefa Maria probably in the mid-1700s.

The only other Fayal I could find is in Minnesota and Minnesota wasn't a state in 1785.

Hope this helps,
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Guillaume Williams

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Aug 28, 2022, 8:29:52 PM8/28/22
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Thanks. I'll take a look at that. A cousin found the baptism of their daughter Marie, which has this information:  Gracy, Marie (Juan & Maria Francisca Courtain) bt. 27 Nov. 1798, bn. 1 Nov. 1798, sponsors Juan Baptista Larois & Angelica Jonis, Pat. GP. (Jose Grasy & Josepha Maria Vuiedos), Mat. GP (Ludovico Courtain & Maria Josepha Martin) (SJO-1, 198-199).

I'm going to order a microfiche copy of it to see if perhaps Vuiedos is actually something else and the transcriber is wrong.

Guillaume Williams

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Aug 28, 2022, 8:30:02 PM8/28/22
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Juan dies in 1831 at 75 years of age which would make his birth around 1756.

Cheri Mello

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Aug 28, 2022, 8:52:32 PM8/28/22
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Good idea. Gracy is not a Portuguese surname. Yeah, look at the original.

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Guillaume Williams

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Sep 19, 2022, 5:34:41 PM9/19/22
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So today I got a copy of the original baptism of Maria Gercy/Garcia. it is attached. In the text the priest gives the surname of the father as Gercy and his father as Gracy (cf underlined names) and it looks like the grandmother is Josepha Maria Vuiedos/Vuiedas? Can anyone read it another way? It is written in Spanish.

Cheri Mello

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Sep 19, 2022, 5:38:50 PM9/19/22
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Hi,
I see no attachment.
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Guillaume Williams

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Sep 19, 2022, 6:35:22 PM9/19/22
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Cheri Mello

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Sep 19, 2022, 7:17:02 PM9/19/22
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I had 3 years of Spanish in high school - about 40 years ago.

On the 27 Dec 1798... the legitimate daughter of Juan Gercy (João Garcia) and Maria Francisca Courtaim (that's not the Portuguese side)...born 1 Nov of the same year.. of the name Maria...paternal granddaughter of Joze Gracy (José Garcia) and Josefa Maria Vuie_os and maternal (the non-Portuguese side).

That may not be a "d" in the Vuiedos. Look at all the other "d"s in the document. He never attaches them. Yes, he could have sneezed or something and connected it, but maybe it's not a "d." Maybe it's an "s" or "l" or something.

The best that I can remember from my Spanish class is that "b" "d" and "v" are interchangeable, I'm thinking her name *may be* Joseph Maria Viveiros. But then again, maybe they were saying "Barcelos."

The problem is a Portuguese speaker talking with a Spanish speaker and taking a guess at an unfamiliar surname. But you'd think they'd get Garcia correct.

As I mentioned before, look in the CITCEM for Faial island, and look at every Jose Garcia who could be married to a Josefa Maria in the right time period. All but 2 freguesias are indexed. One of the missing freguesias was indexed by another genealogist. That leaves 1 freguesia to search by hand. The information is elsewhere in this thread.

Maybe others have a better guess on the name.
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Guillaume Williams

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Sep 19, 2022, 7:28:42 PM9/19/22
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Thanks for your thoughts. I was having similar thoughts about that d also. Maybe a t? I have looked through the indexes you listed before but couldn't find anything. But I'll keep looking.

Cheri Mello

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Sep 19, 2022, 7:31:14 PM9/19/22
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There's a thing called compounded surnames. Maybe his name was Jose Garcia Silva or something. Yeah, 2 surnames, but he drops one when he comes to New Orleans. You might want to repeat the search with just Garcia and check out every Jose Garcia Anything m. to a Josefa Maria or Josefa Maria Anything.

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Cheri Mello

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Sep 19, 2022, 7:32:33 PM9/19/22
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And if that turns up nothing, test your DNA or that of your parent (if alive) who has the Portuguese line. One of the matches may descend from the sibling of Jose Garcia or Josefa Maria Whatever her name is.

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Guillaume Williams

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Sep 20, 2022, 10:50:06 AM9/20/22
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The son Juan on the baptism of other children goes by Gracie de Mel

Cheri Mello

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Sep 20, 2022, 12:30:47 PM9/20/22
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You'll have to run Garcia de Melo through the CITCEM site and that one other database.

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Guillaume Williams

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JesseAndDeborah Mendonca

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Guillaume Williams

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Sep 22, 2022, 11:54:26 AM9/22/22
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Do you have a link where  Castelo Branco  records are to be searched by hand? Is there a digital image of the records?

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Cheri Mello

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Sep 22, 2022, 11:58:48 AM9/22/22
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Yes. They are on the CCA site. Use Tombo.pt to navigate.  A British flag is towards the upper right corner if you need English.

Once you are on Tombo.pt, look down to the bottom of the left column for Azores.  Click that. Then click Faial for the island. Then click Horta for the council. Then you'll see Castelo.
Good luck!


Guillaume Williams

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Sep 22, 2022, 4:39:12 PM9/22/22
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So I found this which seems to be the closest match to my ancestors. Two problems, wrong Island (Pico not Faial) and it doesn't list the son that I'm descended from. On the other hand, the section of baptisms that would cover the year he was baptized has a lot of washed out entries so he could be there. http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=cmadalena;lang=pt;p=joao+garcia;n=melo on the photo it would the upper right hand side.
joao garcia melo marriage Azores 1756.jpg

Cheri Mello

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Sep 22, 2022, 4:48:01 PM9/22/22
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Yeah, it's saying Joao (John) and not Jose (Joseph). The pertinent parts:
Joao Garcia de Melo, son of Joao Leal Monteiro and Ana Garcia (she's dead) married Josefa Maria, daughter of Mateus (old spelling = Matteus) de Machado and Maria Francisca, natives of the Apostle of Sao Mateus on Pico - married 8 Jan 1756.
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