On Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:12:02 UTC, Cheryl Hazell wrote:
I'm posting this information on behalf of a young woman who has started out on her family search.
MOTHER'S INFO: (my great grandfather:) JOSEPH OLLIVIERRE born somewhere in Portugal in 18?? and emigrated to St. Vincent where he died, unknown date. He married ANTONIA FERREIRA (Birth paper says Furara but we think it's Ferreira spelt incorrectly) ... same info for birth and death. (grandmother) BALVINA OLLIVIERRE born: May 11, 1881 in Freeland, St. Vincent died: unknown in Trinidad, she married NORMAN GLENROY DA COSTA. their daughter (my mother) LUCIANA DA COSTA, she was born in 1911 in St. Vincent, and still lives... she emigrated to Trinidad and currently Canada. She married NICHOLAS DA SILVA
FATHER'S INFO: Descendants of Emmanuel Da Silva
EMMANUEL DA SILVA born somewhere in Portugal in 18?? and emigrated to St. Vincent where he died, unknown date. He married MARY DA SILVA ... same info for birth and death. Son (my father) NICHOLAS DA SILVA, b. March 04, 1905, Spring Mountain, St. Vincent, WI; d. November 09, 1993, Ajax Pickering Hospital, Ajax, Ontario. He married LUCIANA DA COSTA, b. October 15, 1911, Mt. Pleasant Mountain, St. Vincent, WI.
We've been told that they originated in Madeira, Portugal, but not sure if that's true. If I could find out how to access records for St. Vincent that would probably help.
Thanks,
Cheryl
Hi Cheryl
I've just got a book from Amazon called Madeira's emigration to St Vincent's island in Antilles by Joao Adriano Ribeiro and it also lists the ships (plus a couple of others) which are listed later on in this thread. There was a lot of emigration from
Madeira between 1845 - 1860 due to several factors: military inscription which many young men wished to avoid, potato blight, the colonial method of farming by which the land workers had to share their profits with the land owners, a grape blight which
wrecked the grape harvest which made the economy nosedive, and general overpopulation. This emigration, which was largely done illegally and without passports, was driven by British Madeirans who were offering 5000 Reis per passenger. Over 1000
Madeirans came to St Vincent during these years. I am still trying to find passenger lists for all those boats as even though they would not have had a passport, I'm sure the British Colonial government in St Vincent would not have allowed them to land
without taking their names. Most of the Madeirans would have ended up as indentured labourers on plantations. Amongst them, I believe, was an Antonio Correia, a shoemaker, who may well have been my great, great, great grandfather.
All the best
Juanita Rogers (de la Rosa, granddaughter of F A Corea/Casson)
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