Betty, I don't know if you have searched the ships' lists but it might help if you haven't. http://www.dholmes.com/ships.html I have been researching Capt. Edmund Burke of the Bark Azor which was later the Bark Fredonia. He made numerous trips between Boston and the Azores and carried many passengers. Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "BBFFRRPP" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: [MABRISTO] Single Man, Age 20, Arriving from Azores ..1905 .. Did He Have to Have a Job? > Hello, > > I'd like to ask a general question. Back in the 1905 time period, if a > single man, Age 20, left the Azores to come to the USA, and came to > Massachusetts, would he have had to have plans on where to go and what to do > when he arrived? > > Continuing on, if he had no plans for what he would do and where he would > live upon arriving, what would he have done? Would he have asked the > other people on the ship about where he could get "housing?" Or, would he > have waited till he arrived and then start asking for help? > > Also, in general, would the families and/or single adults coming from the > Azores in the 1890 to 1910 timeframe .. have come into Boston or New > Bedford? Would they have had a choice? Or, would they have gotten onto > whichever ship was available to them? > > Also, if a single man from the Azores arrived in New Bedford, for example, > how long would he have stayed in that city .. if he didn't already have a > job? Would he have just stayed there until he found work? Or, would he > have asked around for where work was available? How many of the Azorean > immigrants would have just headed directly to the Boston area? > > I am researching ..Antonio PACHECO.. who reportedly arrived in MA in 1905 > as a single man. We do not know which Port he sailed into. He probably > married "Elsie" MOURA in 1913, but we don't know which city it would have > taken place in. (She had probably arrived in 1901 as a child.) They > lived their married life in Cambridge, MA. > > Antonio was killed in a car accident in Taunton, MA, in 1928. He was > reported to have been a carpenter. His family knew of NO relatives in > the USA. This month I will start trying to find out if he had any living > relatives in St. Michael's, Azores, when he died. (He came from the > village of Sao Roque, and his parents were Joseph and Jessie (COSTA) > PACHECO.) > > Thank you for your time. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > > > "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children; > one is roots, the other is wings." > > Hodding Carter, Jr. > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >