Hello, Someone has written to me about the PACHECO name in Cambridge and Somerville around 1920. Last year someone else wrote to me about the name. My husband grew up believing his late grandfather, Antonio / Anthony PACHECO, had no relatives in New England. * But, the lady who wrote to me last year, believes that her grandparents "were" related to him. They both came from the same village in Sao Miguel, Azores. And, I just checked census pages for the other grandparents this morning, and I'm seeing similarities there, also. The query this morning is about John PACHECO in Somerville. One coincidence is that both John and Anthony "Tony" worked at the "Rubber Shop." (as did John's nephew, Joseph) I just asked my husband, and he said it might have been the "Simplex Wire & Cable Co." on Portland St., Cambridge. But, then he remembered the "Hood Rubber Co." (1920) I just searched on-line for "Hood Rubber" and found an interesting newspaper article in the "New York Times" from 1914. You might like to read this article about a man who was an inventor and he found a way to save "Hood Rubber" some money. For his efforts? He ended up in a "State Hospital." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502E5DA1F39E633A25752C2A9609C946596D6CF This page offers a brief biography of George HOOD, once owner of "Hood Rubber." http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/hood/inv/ Here are some pictures of the company - at a library: http://old.watertownlib.org/Photos/toc-bus05.html The company was mentioned in a "MassMoments" e-mail: http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=123 Oh, here is a short history of the company; looks like it was in business for ~75 years. And, I'm seeing it was in Watertown, not in Cambridge. http://h2otown.info/node/2319?mini=calendar/2008/7/all& Here is a history of the "Simplex Wire and Cable Co." http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Simplex/index.htm Betty (near Lowell, MA) * Antonio PACHECO was killed in a car accident in Taunton in 1927. His widow was pregnant with twins at the time and delivered a month later. And she had 5 young children besides that. My "hunch" now is that she remained angry at her late husband for the rest of her life, and that is why she wouldn't talk about him. (up to 1980). Elsie was only about 35 when she was widowed, and she never remarried. I believe the lady who wrote last year was related to the Manuel PACHECO in Cambridge in 1920, but I'll have to check my notes. I just rechecked, and there were almost 250 PACHECO's in MA in 1920, and 218 of them were in Bristol County, 18 of them were in Middlesex County. (And "Tony" was listed as PACHICO in 1910.) In Middlesex Co., most were in Cambridge and Somerville, but 3 people were in Lowell. (Don't forget there was a Portuguese neighborhood in Lowell.)