Born Jose de Almeida on the island of Flores, Azores, to Joao Jose de Almeida Baptista and his wife Martinha Rose Emilia de Jesus Fernandes. He was a cook on the fishing boats. He immigrated to Provincetown, Massachusetts about 1869 and sent for his wife, Maria. She died shortly after the birth of her second child and her sister, Emilia, came to care for the children and eventually married Joseph and had two more children.
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According to Edie Mae Sawyer Roderick in April, 1998, she told this writer that she was told that when Joseph came to America he was asked, perhaps by immigration officials, what his name was. He only could speak Portuguese and could not understand the question or they could not understand his response. They asked him where he was from, he said Flores, so they said fine, then your name is Joseph Flores. I believe that is the most probable explanation of the name change. All the religious records from the church and the marriage and birth records in the Provincetown records all use the surname, Almeida, but the federal census records use the last name Flores.
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According to Edie Mae Sawyer Roderick in April, 1998, she told this writer that she was told that when Joseph came to America he was asked, perhaps by immigration officials, what his name was. He only could speak Portuguese and could not understand the question or they could not understand his response. They asked him where he was from, he said Flores, so they said fine, then your name is Joseph Flores. I believe that is the most probable explanation of the name change. All the religious records from the church and the marriage and birth records in the Provincetown records all use the surname, Almeida, but the federal census records use the last name Flores.
Born Jose de Almeida on the island of Flores, Azores, to Joao Jose de Almeida Baptista and his wife Martinha Rose Emilia de Jesus Fernandes. He was a cook on the fishing boats. He immigrated to Provincetown, Massachusetts about 1869 and sent for his wife, Maria. She died shortly after the birth of her second child and her sister, Emilia, came to care for the children and eventually married Joseph and had two more children.
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According to Edie Mae Sawyer Roderick in April, 1998, she told this writer that she was told that when Joseph came to America he was asked, perhaps by immigration officials, what his name was. He only could speak Portuguese and could not understand the question or they could not understand his response. They asked him where he was from, he said Flores, so they said fine, then your name is Joseph Flores. I believe that is the most probable explanation of the name change. All the religious records from the church and the marriage and birth records in the Provincetown records all use the surname, Almeida, but the federal census records use the last name Flores.
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According to Edie Mae Sawyer Roderick in April, 1998, she told this writer that she was told that when Joseph came to America he was asked, perhaps by immigration officials, what his name was. He only could speak Portuguese and could not understand the question or they could not understand his response. They asked him where he was from, he said Flores, so they said fine, then your name is Joseph Flores. I believe that is the most probable explanation of the name change. All the religious records from the church and the marriage and birth records in the Provincetown records all use the surname, Almeida, but the federal census records use the last name Flores.
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