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From: Martin Verhaegh <verhaegh@thegrid.net> Subject: [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:51:06 -0400 Roll call may not be the right term, but the process allows me to ask the question: where are we with respect to defining the bridge at about the year 1460 in Flanders and in the Azores.

Since I know nothing about the after 1460 period, I have concentrated on the before 1460 period in The Southern Netherlands. Somehow we have to make crossover. My question: For each Flemish ancestral family name, what is the earliest date known for records in the Azores. Some data on van Huerter (Hurtere, Utra, archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PORTUGAL/1999-09/0937083066

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d'Utra, Dutra, Huerta) and van der Ha(e)gen (Silveira) have been highlighted. What else do we know after 1460 on other Flemish related family names?

To refresh your memory, I am quoting my posting of 6-23-99. Please respond so we can zero in on bridging solutions.

Starting 9-13-99, I will be in Holland, and will be back online 9-28-99.

And yes, I will spent some time in Belgium.

Martin Verhaegh. ________________ Martin Verhaegh wrote: Flemish Emigration to the Azores When I completed the genealogy of my family name Verhaegh in The Netherlands in 1996, I was left with many questions. Surely, the research covering three branches from 1270 to 1996 and spread over various countries, would leave many ancestor questions unanswered. One of these likely ancestors was Willem van der Hagen (Haeghe) from Bruges in Belgium. A lucky break came when I met some Azorean researchers at the LDS Family History Center in San Luis Obispo, California. Doris Mello and Arline Silveira relayed the story they read in James Guill's book: "Azores Islands History". Willem van der Hagen was one of the sailing ship captains taking emigrants to the Azores about 1466.

Once he became a settler on the island of Sao Jorge, he changed his name to Guilherme da Silveira. After enquiring about this Portuguese name, I learned that he had translated directly from the Dutch. Haag or Haegh in Dutch means: hedge, shrub or bush, just like Silveira in Portuguese. An interesting baptismal registration with the same meaning in Latin of the family name in Holland was "de Dumo".

A short history lesson: Holland and Belgium, prior to 1830, were one country called The Netherlands. With a total of 17 provinces, Flanders was one of the dominant provinces in the middle ages, located in the archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PORTUGAL/1999-09/0937083066

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Southern Netherlands. The term Nether means low, and in Europe they still refer to the Low Countries when they mean both Belgium and Holland (the latter one officially called The Netherlands). Both countries have the common Dutch language, in Belgium called Flemish. The written Dutch and Flemish text has only minor variations. There is every reason to believe that people from other provinces joined the emigrants from Flanders, so strictly speaking, we really are dealing here with emigration from 15th century Southern Netherlands.

While I am primarily interested in Willem van der Hagen, together with hundreds of Silveiras in the Azores and North America, there were many other Netherlandic emigrants to the Azores. One of the more prominent ones was Joss van Huerter (Hurtere), later on in the Azores called de Utra (d'Utra, Dutra, Huerta). The town of Horta is reportedly named after him. He was the first Capitao Donatorio of Faial and Pico.

Another famous Flemish emigrant Van de Olm, later known as Fernao Dulmo, settled Quatro Ribeiras on Terceira. A wellknown emigrant and early world trader was Willem van der Bruyn, known as Guilherme Brum. There is credible evidence that some of these emigrants were noblemen, an area of research receiving considerable interest lately.

Many more Netherlandic family names are hidden among the Azorean families. They are found on the islands as well as in the farflung corners of the world. The more obvious are: van den Berghe (Berge), Bormans (Bermans), Bulscamp (Bulcao), Brugge (Bruges), Van Can (Cao), Verstraeten (Estrada), Fabritius, Timmermans (Fabricio), Van der Goes (Gois), Govaert (Goulart), Greaves, de Greef (Graaf)? (Graves, Greves), De Groot (Grotas), Hustaerdt (Hustarte), Lem, patronym of Lambert (Leme), Van der Linden, Verlinden (Linde), De Lis (Lis, Liz), de Looze (Luis, Luiz), Van Praet (Praet), De Rouze (Rosa), Silvester (Silvestre), Van Rossem (Rossem), Van Aard, Aardrijk? (Terra, Terre), Teeuwen, Teewen (Teves).

French family names were prevalent in the southern provinces of the early Netherlands, as they still are in bilingual Belgium. Some early districts in these provinces currently are part of France, such as Dunkerque. The following French root family names in the Azores most archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PORTUGAL/1999-09/0937083066

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likely are of Netherlandic origin: Bouillion (Bulhoes), Dumas (Dumas), Jacques, Jacobs (Jacques), Le Merchier (Lemerchier), Pegas (Pegues, Piques), Pernet (Pernet, with apostraphe ), De Ponte (Ponte), Santes (Sanches).

Other Netherlandic family names which reportedly have been used in the Azores are: Amalia, Andreia, Bartholomeu(s), Bode, Braamcamp, Bras, Brederode, Claes, Clara, Craesbeeck, De Haas, Donzel, Dores (short for Theodore), Everard, Gabriel, Gerardi, Gervais, Handel, Helder, Hintze, Langhans, Ledesma, Mateus, Matias, Mestre, Moller, Nicolau, Oldenberg, Oom, Pastor, Priest, Schander, Spoelstra, Ternate, Tilman, van der Walle. Many of these names are patronyms or matronyms. For all those with an interest in Azorean genealogy: who knows, I may be one of your cousins xx times removed.

Martin Verhaegh, Cambria, California.

This thread: [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call by Martin Verhaegh <verhaegh@thegrid.net> [PORTUGAL-L] Re: Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call by Doug da Rocha Holmes <doug@dholmes.com> [PORTUGAL-L] Re: Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call by Doug da Rocha Holmes <doug@dholmes.com> Re: [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call by Francisco Antonio Doria <fadoria@rio.com.br> [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, Roll call by Martin Verhaegh <verhaegh@thegrid.net> [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores, (to Martin) by "LUIS K. W." <cavmad@ip.pt> [PORTUGAL-L] Flemish Emigrants to the Azores by Martin Verhaegh <verhaegh@thegrid.net> archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PORTUGAL/1999-09/0937083066

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