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From: Doug da Rocha Holmes <>
Subject: Re: [AZORES-L] Bezerra + Rodrigues de Abreu + Bettencourt
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:18:04 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000a01c11bcc$ee0703c0$76bcbfc8@winteste>


Caro primo Joao,

You asked this question once before and I checked my records back then. Individually, I would say this about each name:
Bezerra - Pico
Rodrigues de Abreu - Pico or Faial
Bettencourt - earth :-))

But tied together, maybe Lajes, Candelaria or Madalena, both on Pico is the right area. But I don't have any record of Bezerra in Madalena and I am almost certain I would have noted it down if I saw it there, since all named Bezerra on Pico are my relatives, even if I can't fully prove them as such.

So maybe what you are dealing with is a new combination of surnames in Brasil from two families from different parts of Pico. All these names are on Pico, and because you included Bezerra, there is almost no other option than Pico, when talking about the Azores.

I can rule out Lajes from the list if these other names are attached to Bezerra, since I long ago completed the extraction of people named Bezerra there.

Boa sorte amigo,
Doug

At 08:32 PM 8/2/2001 , João S. Lopes Filho wrote:
>Is there particular parish in Azores where these surnames are common in association: Bezerra, Rodrigues de Abreu, Bettencourt??
>I know my ancestor Miguel Bezerra da Ressurreicao (born +/-1750) was Portuguese, and I have suspiction he was Azorean and from Pico.
>
>Joao SL
>Rio
>

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