Two, so far. On the child's records it simply says that everyone is from S. Martinho. As both of them have "Correia" as a surname, one would have empirically assumed that Catarina Correia is the source of that name. A closer look, however, would tell you that it was much more probably from her husband, Bartolomeu Pires, who was maternal grand son of the well known Correia & Andrade couple that gave origin to the family of that name mentioned on the Maderian nobiliaries. To reinforce this ideia comes the fact that the descendancy wildly used the "Correia de Andrade" surname, even if it wasn't their male lineage. The only place where Catarina Correia is mentioned as being a native from S. Miguel, Azores, is on her marriage record, but they failed to include there any reference to what her ancestry may have been. I've not looked the christening records yet. Paulo On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:56:03 -0800 (PST), Luis Beal <luisbeal@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well Paulo how many of her children's records have you looked up where > her place of birth may be written? Hopefully she had more than one child > and in one of her kids baptism (or marriage) records there may be a bit > more information that will be more useful. > Luis -- " Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." -- Horacio