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From: "Mike and Beth" <>
Subject: Re: [AZORES-L] The first Pereira to the Azores
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:39:45 -0700


Hi Doug and All,

I decend from Pereiras also---my mother's maiden name being Perry. So am
very interested in this. I don't know what island the family is from
however. But the following Doug wrote caught my eye:
>
>In the reference "The Pereira Family" by Antonio Ferreira de Serpa, 1929,
>in a translated English version, it says:
>
>"Between 1501 and 1518 there arrived on the island of Faial two individuals
>of the higest social order from the most legitimate nobility of the
>Kingdom. They came in flight, in search of asylum. They were John Garcia
>Pereira and George Peixoto de Carvalho.

Now---why would members of the nobility have cause to flee Portugal and seek
asylum?? This intrigues me, since as I tried to convey in a post recently
that there must have been a great motivation to uproot themselves from the
life to which they were accustomed, from friends and family, and undergo
hardships in forging a new life on an uncivilized island. We all know what
was occurring during this time period-----that being the Inquisition. That
would certainly provide the impetus for such a flight!

Kind regards,
Beth
On a lovely, sunny, but cool morning in western Oregon. :-))

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