Seriqui - Terceira
Inacio Steinhardt
I will start with you since your letter was the first that I received.
There were several Sereque in Portugal. I don't know if they were all relatives.
In effect some have lived in Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, and those are probably your relatives.
As you know Ashriqui is an Arab word, meaning "The Oriental", the man from the East.
The name being not European, it has had several different spellings in Portuguese: Achriki, Asseric, Eshriqui, Esrequi, Sarique, Sheriqyui, Shriqui, etc. Some have translated to "de Levante", which means exactly the same.
As a matter of fact I have had a colleague here in Israel, whose surname was Shriki.
Your line, as far as I could ascertain, came from Mogador, Morocco, a city that is called now Essaouira.
The first ancestor that I could identify was SALOM SREKY, that was the father of FORTUNATO SREKY. I don't have dates for them.
FORTUNATO SREKY married Fortunata and they had:
SULTANA SREKY– born 1807 in Mogador. She died en 22.6.1880, in Lisbon, Portugal and rests in the Jewish cemetery of Lisbon.. She married Isaac Ohana, alias Joaquim Aflalo.
ABRAHAM SERIQUI, also SHYRICHY – born 1815 in Mogador. He died in Boston, USA. Most probably Abraham has lived in Terceira. He married MARIANA MIRIAM BENSABAT BENARUS (two well knon families in Terceira).
This coupled has embarked from Terceira to Boston on the s/s "BENGUELA" in Aug. 21, 1885 with three daughters.
They had the following children:
SALOM BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1845, in Mogador. He married Rachel Adrehi (born 1864) in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Salom died in Oct. 18 1915, in Lisbon
DAVID BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1848, in Mogador. He has stayed several times in Angra do Heroismo. I don't know if he was married and where he died.
ESTHER BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1859. Esther embarked in 1885, with her parents and sisters, from Terceira to Boston.
FORTUNATA BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1861. Embarked with her parents and sisters from Terceira to Boston.
LUNA BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1875, embarked also with her parents and sisters to Boston
MIGUEL BENARUS SERIQUI – b. 1862. I found very little about him. In 1876 he was in Lisbon, and in 1884 he was in the island of Flores, Azores.
This is all I could find out for you. The rest probably you already know. Is one of the above your ancestor?
From this information I can not see if any of them is sepulted in the Angra do Heroismo cemetery. Probably not. Other members of the BENARUS family are certainly there.
I visited the cemetery but I didn't have time to read all the tombstones, some of which are already very difficult to read.
Somebody sent me a list of the tombstones which have names in latin characters. This person could not read Hebrew. So I don't have the names of the other.
The name Seriqui is definitively mentioned in several sources as one of the families living in the island but without further details.
The cemetery has no plaque with names. There is one plaque with the name of the cemetery in Portuguese (Campo da Igualdade) and in Hebrew (Emek HaShaveh). The tombstones have names, some only in Hebrew, other in Hebrew and Portuguese.
I don't know if pictures go through in this forum. I will send two, and copy to your private address in case they don't go through.
I hope to have been able to provide some of the information you were looking for.
Good luck in your further research.
Inacio
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Inacio Steinhardt
As I told you before other people were and are very kind to me helping me in my genealogy research about my family. I am not doing anything special looking for information for you. Just using data that I may have at hands for other purposes.
So all you are supposed to do is be kind to other people who may need your help. That's all.
According to my sources, Salom Benarus Serique died in Lisbon in October 18, 1915 and at the time of his dead he was living at Rua Nova de Santo António Street, 37A-
The last news about Miguel in Terceira is from 1884, when he arrived there coming from the island of Flores.
The Benarus and the Bensabat were important and well-to-do families in the Azores. They were mainly shopkeepers in Angra do Heroismo and other islands.
Jacob Benarus was born in 1789m Marakesh, Morocco, but has lived in Mogador. He maried un Morocco with Luna Querub Bensabat. Aparently Jacob Benarus lived in Mozambique, before his marraige.He has lived in Faial, before Terceira.
Mariana Bensabat Benarus was their daughter (one out of six). Miriam was her Jewish name. Mariana was 52 years old when she left for Boston, her husband was 70. They took a passport in Angra. Passport nr. 267, of August 19, 1886.
Abraham Seriki has lived in S. Jorge, before Terceira.
This is all I can tell you for teh moment.
I am attaching an old and bad copy of the house of the Benarus family in Angra.
Inacio
eric edgar
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