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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 4138039" data-attributes="member: 24811">(Beware that my understanding of Portuguese comes largely from knowing French, Latin and some Spanish -- I can usually go through a text and grab the general meaning, but I can certainly also overlook details.)Correia was a native of Flamengos, on the island of Faial, Açores. Born 27 Jan 1881, the son of a cooper. He emigrated to America, reaching New Bedford on 15 Aug 1901, after a 10-month 'crossing' aboard the whaling ship Morning Star. In the US, he first started working in cotton factories, then made himself a cooper, an art he had learned from his father.He only had two wives in this text. His first wife was named Rosa Silva. He married her on 23 Sep 1903; she died on 28 Apr 1906. The text says she was "oriunda das ilhas", "native of the islands", which I'd understand (?) as meaning from the Azores too. No more details about her.After Rosa's death, he started working as a cooper on a whaling ship, the Daisy. It's on this ship that Robert Cushman Murphy embarked in 1912.He married his second wife, Virgínia Gonçalves Aguiar, on 11 Oct 1920. She was a native of Lajes, on the island of Terceira, Açores. (I see no suggestion in the text that they were cousins, or otherwise closely related.)In this text, both first names have an accent, and the middle name has a cedilla -- José Gonçalves Correia, Virgínia Gonçalves Aguiar.</blockquote>