Re: [AZORES-GEN] Re: Pico Genealogy (Machado & Soares) (Marshall & Sears)

[Seek...@aol.com]

Dear Al,

 

Thank you for your reply.  I am sorry but I am way behind in answering my e-mail and I'm still trying to get caught up.  You are right,. it seems pretty evident that the surnames of Machado and Soares quite often became Marshall and Sears, also Sawyer sometime after coming to the states..

 

My grandfather was born Jose in 1881 in Lajes, Pico.  He was the only child of Jose Machado (b. 1855, Lajes, Pico).  I don't know what happened to his father except that he died sometime while my grandfather was a child.  I'm not even sure of where he died, in the Azores or in the United States.  I heard that he died in a fire.  My grandfather immigrated with his mother, Mariana,  to the USA when he was about three years old.  They went to Massachusetts and lived in Cambridge and Sommerville.  He also traveled out west to Califronia with his mother at various times up around the Gilroy area..  His mother remarried to a man named Avila from the Azores.  She did return to Pico where she died.  My grandfather made several trips back over to the islands to visit and also made trips over there concerning some property that he inherited. as an adult from his grandfather, Francisco on Pico.  He used his name Jose Machado Soares whenever he returned to the islands.  In the USA he changed his surname to Sawyer (Soares).  Later, he dropped that and angelized his name to Marshall (Machado).  He was naturalized under Sawyer and married under Sawyer.  The first few children were born under Sawyer, the last few which included my father were born under Marshall.  So, the family name was really Machado.

 

Here's an overview of my paternal grandfather's genealogy starting with him:

 

JOSE MACHADO SOARES/ JOSEPH M. SAWYER/JOSEPH MARSHALL

b. 1881; Lajes, Pico; d. 1959; Chula Vista, CA 

Parents:  JOSE MACHADO: b. 1855, Lajes, Pico and MARIANA ROSA MACEDO; b. 1854; Lajes, Pico (Daughter of JOSE MACEDO EVANGELHO PORTUGAL, 1820-1885; and MARIA ROSA ROSARIO, 1824-1920).

 

JOSE MACHADO (b. 1855) was the son of FRANCISCO MACHADO SOARES 1819-1894, Lages, Pico and MARIA JOAQUINA CONCEICAO, !820-1886, Lajes, Pico.  (She was the daughter of JOSE FRANCISCO LADEIRA, 1792-1864 and ANA JOAQUINA.) 

Other children of this union include:

FRANCISCA MACHADO, b. 1844

MARIA MACHADO, b. 1846

MANUEL MACHADO, b. 1846; m. UMBELIMA CONCEICAO

MARIA ANGLEICA SOARES, b. 1862; m. JOSE ANTONIO MACEDO

*JOSE MACHADO (as above, b. 1855)

JOAO MACHADO SOARES, b. 1858

ANTONIO, b. 1861

 

FRANCISCO MACHADO SOARES, mentioned above and b. 1819 was the son of ANTONIO MACHADO ALVES (1793-1869, Lajes, Pico) and MARIA FRANCISCA JESUS b. 1789.  She was the daughter of JOSE ALVARES (1747/48-1793) and MARIA FRANCISCA (1765-1834). 

Children of ANTONIO MACHADO ALVES and MARIA FRANCISCA JESUS  include:

MARIA RITA ESPIRITO SANTO, b. 1817; m. ANTONIO SILVEIRA DUTRA MACHADO SIMAS.

*FRANCISCO MACHADO SOARES (mentioned above)

JOAO MACHADO ALVES, 1821-1893, m. MARIA GLORIA

CATARINA CONCEICAO FRANCISCA, b. 1824, m. MANUEL PEREIRA BRUM

JOSE MACHADO, b. 1826, m. MARIA CONCEICAO (b. 1830

ANTONIO MACHADO ALVES, 1829-1898, m. LUISA INACIA (b. 1834)

ISABEL ANGELICA, b. 1831

MANUEL, b. 1834

 

ANTONIO MACHADO ALVES, mentioned above and born 1793, was the son of FRANCISCO MACHADO MEDEIROS, died 1857, Lajes, Pico, and MARIA RITA JOSEFA (1773-1829).  She was the daughter of VINCENTE ROSA , 1733-1810 and MARIA RITA, 1742-1804. Other children of this marriage include:

MARIA RITA, 1791-1872, m. ANTONIO VIEIRA MONTEIRO

ANTONIO MACHADO ALVES, 1793-1869, m. MARIA FRANCISCA JESUS b. 1789

JOSEFA, 1799-1807

RITA LUISA AMOR DIVINO,  1802-1894,  m. ANTONIO MACEDO

MANUEL, died 1796

CATARINA, 1806-1811

JOAO MACHADO, 1812-1837, m. ANA JACINTA, b. 1813

JOSE MACHADO, 1818-1863, m. MARIA RITA MACHADO

TOME, 1815-1816

MANUEL MACHADO, b. 1804, m. LUISA INACIA

FRANCISCO MACHADO, died 1887, m. MARIA JOSEFA, b. 1800

ANA LUISA, b. 1809, m. MANUEL GARCIA MANCEBO, b. 1805

 

FRANCISCO MACHADO MEDEIROS, mentioned above, d.. 1857, was the son of MATIAS MACHADO, 1735/6-1785 and MARIA SILVEIRA CONCEICAO, 1739/40-1788.  She was the daughter of MANUEL MUNIZ CASACA and AGUEDA SILVEIRA..  Children of this marriage included:

*FRANCISCO MACHADO MEDEIROS,died 1857

AGUEDA MARIA, b. 1767, m. MATIAS PEREIRA

ISABEL MARIA JOAQUINA, b. 1770, m. ANTONIO JOAQUIM SILVEIRA

CATARINA, b. 1772

MARIA, b. 1775-1775

MARIA, b. 1780-1785

MADALENA-b. 1784

FRANCISCO MEDEIROS, b. 1765

MATIAS MACHADO MEDEIROS, 1812-1885

 

Parents of MATIAS MACHADO (1735/6-1785) were MANUEL MACHADO MEDEIROS, died 1771 and MARIA ROSARIO.  Children of this marriage include:

JOSE, b. 1749

CATARINA TOMASIA CONCEICAO, 1746

ISABEL FRANCISCA ROSARIO, 1742

MANUEL MACHADO MEDEIROS, 1739-1793, m. ROSA JACINTA, 1748-1811

**MATIAS MACHADO, 1736-1785, see above.

VICENTE MACHADO, died 1809, m. MARIA ESPIRITO SANTO 1751-1827

 

My father, JOSEPH WILLIAM MARSHALL (1917-1984), was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and died in the VA Hospital in La Jolla, CA.  He married my mother, MARY BERTINA THERESA MILLER (1917-1986).  She was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts and died in San Diego, CA.

 

Brother's and sisters of my father included:

 

MARY JOSEPH SAWYER/MARSHALL, b. 1901

MARIAN ROSE SAWYER/MARSHALL, b. 1903

ANTHONY PAUL SAWYER/MARSHALL, b. 1908

ALBINA RUTH MARSHALL, b. 1910

LEONORA HELEN MACHADO SOARES, b. 1915 (

*Note-She was born on a ship on the way to the Azores and named MACHADO SOARES because that was my grandfather's legal name in Pico and he always reverted to his original name when he returned back to his birth place.)

JOSEPH WILLIAM MARSHALL, b. 1917

 

So, there you have my paternal grandfather's line for as far back as I have been able to trace.  I wish that I could see some connections with your family, but haven't been able to recognize any at this point.  I thank you so much for your time and for your response.  Good luck in your quest to find your relatives.  Adeus,....Marie Pleasant    seek...@aol.com

 

 

 

 

 

[AlRo...@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/18/2006 12:40:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time, Seek...@aol.com writes:

So, there you have my paternal grandfather's line for as far back as I have been able to trace.  I wish that I could see some connections with your family, but haven't been able to recognize any at this point.  I thank you so much for your time and for your response.  Good luck in your quest to find your relatives.  Adeus,....Marie Pleasant  

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Marie, thanks for your note. I have just returned from an extended absence as well. One of these days, I will get to the church in Norton, MA and see if there are indications in those records as to the island that our MACHADO & SOARES families came from.

Good luck to you as well.

Al Rose