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From: "Richard Matera" <>
Subject: Re: [AZORES-L] The first Pereira to the Azores
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 11:03:10 PDT


It would be difficult to speculate why someone of noble rank would
flee...politics? the Inquisition? Certainly, this was also the time of the
expulsion of the Jews from Portugal & Spain. It could also be to escape debt
(an offense that often lead to jail). One may never know for sure.
Certainly, they felt it better "to start over" in a far away part of the
kingdom.
Richard


>From: "Mike and Beth" <>
>To:
>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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