This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: My husband's mother is from Falmouth. Her father, Frank Fernandes was married to Lena Silvia or Silva. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0EB.2ACE/459 Message Board Post: My husband's mother is from Falmouth. Her father, Frank Fernandes was married to Lena Silvia or Silva. Lena's full name was Helena Beatrice Silvia or Silva. Her parents were Joseph Silvia or Silva and Rosa. The only information we have is Lena had 4 sisters, Mary, Theresa Flora, and Lizzie all born between 1889 and 1897, from the 1900 census. In talking to a 91 yr old uncle today, my husband learned the uncle thinks Rosa and or Joseph was from around Waquoit. Frank, his father, wouldn't let his children talk about their ancestry, especially, Rosa's whom the uncle believed was related to the name Betancort - and the Indians around Mashpee. Joseph Silvia or Silva, worked with people who owned horses and was perhaps a horse trainer, and travelled around the country - sometimes for as much as 3 years at a time. The Fernandes family lived in Woods Hole, and Falmouth. The uncle said when he was young he had wanted to find out more about his mother's Indian heritage - but his mother told him it would upset his father - and persuaded him not to. Does anyone know of the names of the churches around Waquoit and Mashpee?