Alcantara & the settlement of Ribeira das Vaccas

 

Compiler and grandson in New Haven at 40th high school reunion.  Around 2012

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Sometimes in the middle of routine & tedious transcribing you will see something and a lightbulb will go off.  That just happened.  Though I don't have time to dwell on it right now this is what I will be looking into. 

1.  Somehow my SANTO ANTAO great-grandmother Joanna Maria Josefa found herself (after living in Sao Vicente) in Sao Nicolau in a section called Ribeira das Vaccas -

2.  She would have brought along (in her various moves) her son Joao Antonio dos Santos who was born in Sao Vicente in 1894.  Joao Antonio worked at the Seminary in SN but would leave for the US in 1920.

3.  Apparently he was already the "intended" of my grandmother Maria Antonia Encarnacao (Varella/Almeida).  

4.  On the ship AMBROSE SNOW in 1922 my gram is travelling with Paula Alcantara  (from memory I believe d' Oliveira) (who is an ABITBOL descendant). 

5.  Then today I find (in my notes) this Pedro Alcantera dos Santos  whose son Antonio (b. in 1891 - right before my gram and a few years before my gramp) is born in Ribeira das Vaccas.  

6.  My great gram Joanna had children with Antonio Manoel dos Santos of SN.  So at least two of her boys were dos Santos (with Antonio as their middle name). 

So as I edit my notes and find info that would clarify this situation (support/controvert) I will add the info. 

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Oliveira, Paula Alcantara   /Paula A. Ganeto  ---   Sao Nicolau (Villa Ribiera Brava) --- b.  0/19/1905  ---  Daughter of Solomon Abithbol & Maria Soares --- Relative of Maria P. dos Reis ---   Niece of Antonio dos Reis     *****     Immigration:    5/18/1921  --  S.S. ACCAO - Sao Nicolau to NB, 16y, lbr, African, b. Sao Nicolau (V.R. Brava), left behind Maria P. dos Reis, heading to Pawtucket, R.I., she wd be staying with her uncle Antonio dos Reis, 58 Water St, Pawtucket, R.I.  (There is a notation & I c/n tell if it belongs to her or to my grandmother - Maria Antonia Encarnacao -- who is the next person listed on the ship manifest - so consult the original source - so she was on the same ship as compiler’s grandmother Maria  Encarnacao - very few women on this voyage)   1930 Census -    US SS Death Index: 036-34-9244 -   b. 10/19/1905 - d. 11/22/1996 (Paula A. Oliveira)   -----     US SS Claims Index: 036-34-9244 - b. 10/19/1905 in the Republic of Cape Verde ----  d.  11/22/1996 (Paula Alc Oliveira)
                    Father = Solomon Abthobol
                    Mother = Maria Soares
                    Claim 9/29/1970
                    d. 11/22/1996 

Pedro Alcantera dos Santos & Pulcheria Anna do Rosario  -

b.  Son of Antonio Jose dos Santos & Maria Francisca Silva/dos Santos --- Father of Antonio (b. 9/27/1891 at Ribeira das Vaccas, d. 4/10/1893)    SO IF HIS FATHER HAS NO ALCANTARA IN HIS NAME & IF HIS MOTHER DID NOT EITHER - WHERE DID ALCANTARA COME FROM?        *****     doRMats1883-89 - 33/27 - On 6/7/1884, Pedro Alcantera dos Santos, (s/o Antonio Jose dos Santos & Maria Francisca da Silva) md Pulcheria Anna do Rosario (d/o Cypriano Manoel Duarte & Anna Domingas do Rosario), w - Antonio Guilherme Duarte & Antonio Flor de Andrade. doRBaps1892-95 - 13/7 On 1/3/1892,  Antonio was bap, b. 9/27/1891, s/o Pedro Alcantara dos Santos (s/o Antonio Jose dos Santos & Maria Francisca dos Santos) & Pulqueria Anna do Rosario (d/o Cypriano Manoel Duarte & Anna Domingos do Rosario), gods - Antonio de Brito Livramento, md, trabalhador & Archangela Felicia da Conceicao of Morro Bras, md, trabalhadora;    doRObits1890-93 - 106/41, On 4/10/1893, Antonio died at 8 mos, s/o Pedro Alcantera dos Santos & Pulcheria Anna do Rosario.      

Pedro de Alcantara Silva & Anna Rosa de Brito   

b. probably around     _____     ---    Husband of Anna Rosa de Brito  / Anna Antonia de Brito     ***** doRBaps1842-52 - 245/- On 2/26/1850, Nicolau was bap, b. 2/10/1850, s/o Jose Delgado Duarte & Anna Pulqueria de Brito, gods - Anna Antonia de Brito, m/d Pedro Alcantara da Silva;       do RBaps1842-52 - 250 - On 4/30/1850, Joao was bap, b. 4/23/1850, s/o Serafim Jose Duarte & Rosa Gomes dos Santos, gods - Joao Baptista Estevao & Anna Rosa de Brito, m/d Pedro de Alcantara Silva   . doRBaps1852-64 - 43/-  On 12/16/1854, Antonia was bap, b. 12/9/1854, s/o Serafim Jose Duarte & Roisalia Gomes dos Santos, gods - Antonio Joze Duarte & Anna Antonia de Brito, m/d Pedro de Alcantara da Silva.