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From: "JD Perry" <>
Subject: Re: [AZORES-L] The first Pereira to the Azores
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:19:45 -0400


Everyone must read THE CROSS AND THE PEAR TREE by Victor Pereira

Most or many Pereiras have Jews as ancestors.


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Matera <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AZORES-L] The first Pereira to the Azores


>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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