52 in 52 (First): Joseph Ferreira Lomelino
It's been a while!
I know I don't post often enough, I certainly haven;t been researching enough! To help remedy both of those things, I've joined an online challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. So, the goal is to highlight one ancestor per week until the end of the year (I have enough in my tree I could go for several years, ha!) My original Idea was to choose each week's ancestor at random, so my process was this:
Go to my ancestry list of people.
Choose a random letter (L)
Choose a random page (3)
But then I looked. And in looking, I chose. But not randomly.
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino is my first week's ancestor, although at last for me the term ancestor isn't just loose, it's incorrect. I not only plot my own family, but also my husbands within my own tree. This is done for our children, so they can see the entire family as one. In doing so, I have also researched his first wife's family, as she is not only my friend, but my stepchildren's mother so that's their family. Again, it's all so we can all see where we come from. So Joseph isn't MY ancestor, but he is an important part of our family's history, as he's my stepchildren's ancestor. At least that's what I thought.
In such a small area like Macoupin County, everyone is inexplicably related to everyone to some degree. I didn't even know this particular fact until literally just now, but Joseph Ferreira IS my ancestor! He is the great grandfather of a wife of my second cousin 3x removed (say that three times fast.) So that still doesn't make his 4x great grandaughter Kim (the kid's mom) my cousin, as Joe is an in law, but it is a funny coincidence. Here's how it comes about:
Joseph Ferreira has one child, Emmanuel, of who's second child is John. John Ferreira had ten children, his fourth, Leo Ray is the father of Myron Leo, who is the father of Richard, who is Kim's father. John's last child, Anna Mae, married Alfred Love, the son of Joe Love and my 1st cousin 4x removed Susan M Weller. Small world! (In a roundabout way...)
To actually SEE it:
-Thos. Jefferson Weller (my 4x gr grf
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino -Isaac Weller
-Emmanual Ferreira Lomelino -Joe Love + Susan Weller
-John Ferreira Lomelino --- Anna Mae Lomelino (M) Alfred Love
-Leo Ray Lomelino
-Myron Leo Lomelino
Kim Lomelino
OK so let's get down the point of the article, before I got to eloquently sidetracked by the fact that we're all connected here.
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino was born in the Madeira Islands in Portugal Dec 10th, 1814. He married Jozefa Nunez March 28, 1848 in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. They had five children together, Emmanual (1849) Joseph (1852) and Mary (1856) with twins being born but dying within a week of one another, in 1867. All the children were born in Jacksonville Illinois, which means Joseph and Jozefa emigrated before 1849.
In 1838 Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, a Scottish physician, landed on the Portuguese island of Madeira with his wife, who was in ill health which he hoped to restore. His ultimate goal was to become a missionary in China, but they'd stopped over on the Island until she could recover. Not forsaking an opportunity when he saw one, Dr. Kalley decided to start his missionary work on Madeira. He offered free medicine and schooling to the poor residents, which charging exorbitant prices to the wealthy to offset costs. In all, some 2500 people were educated in English and Catholicism, with an estimated 5000 attending one church service held on a mountainside.
Around 1840 the Catholic Church started to question Dr. Kalley's teachings, and began watching intensely the goings-on on the island. In 1843, two Portuguese converts took communion at a Scottish Church established for the worship of British tennants on the Madeiran island; four days later they were charged with apostasy. In 1844 a woman was sentenced to death for heresy, but was eventually shortened to a three month imprisonment. Either way, the persecution of the people had begun.
A mass exodus began, seeing the Madeiran people scattered across Trinidad, Augusta, St Kitts, Demerara, and Jamaica, most resettlement attempts ended in disaster. In early 1849, arrangements were made with the American Hemp Company for the settlement of exiles to Illinois, offering immediate employment and good wages on arrival, also furnishing homes for one year without charge. One hundred thirty one families responded to this offer, and it looks like the Ferriera Lomelino's were one of them.
Unfortunately the AHC reneged on their deal, but the Illinois people pulled through to help the Madeirans come from NY to Jacksonville, helped them through the winter, and found them to be industrious, well liked neighbors.
Joseph died Feb 18, 1878 in Jacksonville, Jozefa later on Dec 29, 1903. Her death is interesting, left the house by her husbands Will, about a mile outside Jacksonville proper, Jozefa had walked into town in the morning to do errands and about 11:30 am died in front of Hatch drugstore "without warning." She was 77. A neat side note is that her pall bearers were A J Viera, J DeSilva, J Vieira, J Vasconcellos, and A DeFreitas, many of these surnames appear as prominent figures in the uprising and persecution back on Madeira, meaning either they're all related (likely) or the Lomelino's were very involved in the persecution and stayed close to those who were also involved.
So back to 52 in 52. Each week there will be a prompt, and the first weeks prompt is "First." Despite wanting this to be a random pick, Joseph does fit perfectly into this writing prompt, as he was not only the first of the Lomelino's to come to America, but also the first wave of Madeirans to do so.
I know I don't post often enough, I certainly haven;t been researching enough! To help remedy both of those things, I've joined an online challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. So, the goal is to highlight one ancestor per week until the end of the year (I have enough in my tree I could go for several years, ha!) My original Idea was to choose each week's ancestor at random, so my process was this:
Go to my ancestry list of people.
Choose a random letter (L)
Choose a random page (3)
But then I looked. And in looking, I chose. But not randomly.
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino is my first week's ancestor, although at last for me the term ancestor isn't just loose, it's incorrect. I not only plot my own family, but also my husbands within my own tree. This is done for our children, so they can see the entire family as one. In doing so, I have also researched his first wife's family, as she is not only my friend, but my stepchildren's mother so that's their family. Again, it's all so we can all see where we come from. So Joseph isn't MY ancestor, but he is an important part of our family's history, as he's my stepchildren's ancestor. At least that's what I thought.
In such a small area like Macoupin County, everyone is inexplicably related to everyone to some degree. I didn't even know this particular fact until literally just now, but Joseph Ferreira IS my ancestor! He is the great grandfather of a wife of my second cousin 3x removed (say that three times fast.) So that still doesn't make his 4x great grandaughter Kim (the kid's mom) my cousin, as Joe is an in law, but it is a funny coincidence. Here's how it comes about:
Joseph Ferreira has one child, Emmanuel, of who's second child is John. John Ferreira had ten children, his fourth, Leo Ray is the father of Myron Leo, who is the father of Richard, who is Kim's father. John's last child, Anna Mae, married Alfred Love, the son of Joe Love and my 1st cousin 4x removed Susan M Weller. Small world! (In a roundabout way...)
To actually SEE it:
-Thos. Jefferson Weller (my 4x gr grf
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino -Isaac Weller
-Emmanual Ferreira Lomelino -Joe Love + Susan Weller
-John Ferreira Lomelino --- Anna Mae Lomelino (M) Alfred Love
-Leo Ray Lomelino
-Myron Leo Lomelino
Kim Lomelino
OK so let's get down the point of the article, before I got to eloquently sidetracked by the fact that we're all connected here.
Joseph Ferreira Lomelino was born in the Madeira Islands in Portugal Dec 10th, 1814. He married Jozefa Nunez March 28, 1848 in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. They had five children together, Emmanual (1849) Joseph (1852) and Mary (1856) with twins being born but dying within a week of one another, in 1867. All the children were born in Jacksonville Illinois, which means Joseph and Jozefa emigrated before 1849.
In 1838 Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, a Scottish physician, landed on the Portuguese island of Madeira with his wife, who was in ill health which he hoped to restore. His ultimate goal was to become a missionary in China, but they'd stopped over on the Island until she could recover. Not forsaking an opportunity when he saw one, Dr. Kalley decided to start his missionary work on Madeira. He offered free medicine and schooling to the poor residents, which charging exorbitant prices to the wealthy to offset costs. In all, some 2500 people were educated in English and Catholicism, with an estimated 5000 attending one church service held on a mountainside.
Around 1840 the Catholic Church started to question Dr. Kalley's teachings, and began watching intensely the goings-on on the island. In 1843, two Portuguese converts took communion at a Scottish Church established for the worship of British tennants on the Madeiran island; four days later they were charged with apostasy. In 1844 a woman was sentenced to death for heresy, but was eventually shortened to a three month imprisonment. Either way, the persecution of the people had begun.
A mass exodus began, seeing the Madeiran people scattered across Trinidad, Augusta, St Kitts, Demerara, and Jamaica, most resettlement attempts ended in disaster. In early 1849, arrangements were made with the American Hemp Company for the settlement of exiles to Illinois, offering immediate employment and good wages on arrival, also furnishing homes for one year without charge. One hundred thirty one families responded to this offer, and it looks like the Ferriera Lomelino's were one of them.
Unfortunately the AHC reneged on their deal, but the Illinois people pulled through to help the Madeirans come from NY to Jacksonville, helped them through the winter, and found them to be industrious, well liked neighbors.
Joseph died Feb 18, 1878 in Jacksonville, Jozefa later on Dec 29, 1903. Her death is interesting, left the house by her husbands Will, about a mile outside Jacksonville proper, Jozefa had walked into town in the morning to do errands and about 11:30 am died in front of Hatch drugstore "without warning." She was 77. A neat side note is that her pall bearers were A J Viera, J DeSilva, J Vieira, J Vasconcellos, and A DeFreitas, many of these surnames appear as prominent figures in the uprising and persecution back on Madeira, meaning either they're all related (likely) or the Lomelino's were very involved in the persecution and stayed close to those who were also involved.
So back to 52 in 52. Each week there will be a prompt, and the first weeks prompt is "First." Despite wanting this to be a random pick, Joseph does fit perfectly into this writing prompt, as he was not only the first of the Lomelino's to come to America, but also the first wave of Madeirans to do so.
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