Detailed Map of Sao Miguel ?
Betty
Does anyone know if there is a detailed map on-line of Sao Miguel? I've
just spent 20 minutes looking for one and just found one which has about 10
towns, but is not as detailed as I'd like.
http://portugalgolfe.com/maps/
My husband's PACHECO ancestors came from the village of Sao Roque on Sao
Miguel. From memory, I think I read that this village was in the
southeast corner of the island, perhaps near Povoacao. Joao and Jacinta
(COSTA) would have lived there in the 2nd half of the 1800's.
And a researcher just mentioned a Joao PACHECO living in the village of
Porto Formoso. I'm curioius where this village is located and whether it
is near Povoacao.
Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)
-- Also researching Francisco MOURA and Philomena ROSE reportedly coming
from Sao Miguel, but might have lived on another island before that. He
was reportedly a Whaler, and they also would have been there in the late
1800's.
(I have a suspicion they were related to the MOURA families who settled in
Brooklyn, NY, USA.) (Mrs. "Phoebe" MOURA settled in Cambridge, MA, USA.
I don't know what happened to "Frank" MOURA - either he had passed, or he
went to Brooklyn when Phoebe went to Cambridge.)
Kathy Cardoza
I have a map on the Azores GenWeb that MIGHT suit your needs. It is
at: http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/saomiguel.html
It is really not a very good map, but it does show, by numbers, all
the villages and towns with the key to it given below the map. Not
very pretty but perhaps it will help you.
Kathy
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Betty wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a detailed map on-line of Sao
> Miguel? I've
> just spent 20 minutes looking for one and just found one which has
> about 10
> towns, but is not as detailed as I'd like.
> <snip>
Cheri Mello
I'm working on one for Kathy for Azores Genweb (it's on my list of things to do), but Doug da Rocha Holmes has a really nice one:
http://www.dholmes.com/master-list/azores/smiguel.html
Sao Roque is in the southwest corner in the council of Ponta Delgada (yellow on Doug's map, on the south side). Povoacao is the southeast corner (green). Porto Formoso is in the council of Ribeira Grande (orange like color) on the north side of the island.
I seem to remember it taking about half an hour or 45 minutes by car to get from Ponta Delgada to Ponta Garca. I seem to remember taking an hour to get to Nordeste. I remember a lot of twists and turns going there. I believe the island is about 40 miles by 10 miles wide.
Cheri
Marcia Andre
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Thank you to everyone who provided very good maps. And thank you
for reminding me where the village of Sao Roque was. I've printed
out the maps and will use them in my research.
By the way, I received an e-mail from a researcher yesterday who
tells me that one of the PACHECO families in Cambridge, MA (US) was
also from Sao Roque. So, she thinks that her Jesse PACHECO was
either a brother or cousin to my husband's Antonio PACHECO. This is
very interesting, as my husband was always told that the other
families in Cambridge were not related to them. (But, his
grandmother, Mrs. PACHECO, was not the easiest person to have
conversations with. She was unexpectedly widowed in 1927, while
pregnant with twins and having 5 young children. I don't know the
other circumstances, but I suspect she was angry for the rest of her
life (1980's).)
(My husband has always believed that his PACHECO grandfather had no
relatives in New England (US), but I have been curious whether that
was true.)
Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)