Persistence pays off
Richard Francis Pimentel
My project of compiling marriages from Santissimo Salvador is progressing I am now up to 1902 with 3 more years to go.
Because I am entering the information into a genealogy program it is taking more time than I originally anticipated. I started working on this project 20 years ago.
Things take time and I try to be accurate. Yesterday I was entering a marriage. The bride was Maria Julia Cabral. Her parents were Francisco Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco. I found her parents easily in my data base and proceeded to add her.
When I looked at her age I computed her birth date as born before 7 Jul 1881. But wait I already had a sister Maria da Conceicao with a birth date of 20 March 1881. Something is wrong here I have two Marias with birthdates in the same gestation period.
I recheck both marriages and the Parents names are exactly the same I spend the next several hours looking for the birth of another Maria including checking names in other girls born in the time. The only thing I learned is that the birth record of Maria da Conceicao said first of the name. So if the parents had another Maria the birthdate would be after the first Maria in other words, start looking 9 months after 20 March 1881. But the problem is Maria Julia Cabral age on her marriage date of 7 July 1902 is 21. I came to the conclusion that one of these Marias had the wrong parents names entered in the records. The question is which one and who were the other set of parents.
The solution I employed was to look for births of children from the two Marias and see if the grandparents names were the same or different.
I started with Maria Julia Cabral. A year and a half after her marriage she had a son and the grand parents were the same as her parents in her marriage record. Also the sons name was Simao the same name as a brother with her parent’s names.
Next I looked after the marriage of Maria da Conceicao and about a year after her marriage she had a son. Her parents names were given as Francisco Cabral and Maria de Jesus Silva as compared to Maria Julia Cabral parents names of Francisco Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco.
To tie this all up I looked for the baptism of Maria da Conceicao with these new parents names and found a record on 19 Apr 1880 with the parent’s names of Francisco Cabral and Maria de Jesus. Her maternal grandfather’s name was Manual da Silva. The icing on this cake was a margin note giving information on her marriage with her husband down to the date and record number. Case solved. Names were close but the families were different. The birth date I had for Maria da Conceicao was actually the on for Maria Julia Cabral The error in the marriage records was the priest wrote the wrong parents names for Maria da Conceicao.
Rick
Richard Francis Pimentel
Epping, NH
Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores
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