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From: Doug da Rocha Holmes <>
Subject: [AZORES-L] Joao Garcia Pereira to Faial
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:23:30 -0700

At 10:39 AM 9/1/99 -0700, Mike and Beth wrote:
>
>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


Since you asked... (continuing with that same story quoted, above):

"John Garcia Pereira was 'very brave' and because he, in the Kingdom of
Sarzedas, killed a noble named Coutinho, a very close relative of the Count
of Marialva, he fled to Tangiers where John de Meneses, the Count of
Tarouca, a relative of his, was Governor in 1501, more or less. In order to
escape punishment he came to the Island of Faial where he married Lady
Elizabeth Pereira Roxo, the widow of Gabriel of Bruges, daughter of Gonsalo
Pereira Roxo and of his wife Lady Mary Sarmento, legitimate daughter of
Garcia Sarmento, Lord of Vigo and of his wife Lady Francesca of Souto-Maior
daughter of the Countess of Caminha."



Doug da Rocha Holmes
Azores Genealogy Specialist www.dholmes.com
Sacramento, California

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