Last goodbye! My grandfather Fernando Antonio Amorim (wears a bow-tie) says his last goodbye to his mother Placidina Maria Nazaré, in Ourinhos in 1923.
Here are the few data I know about my grand-daddy Fernando Antonio Amorim. Most of the information was conveyed by my aunt Antonia Amorim Karg:
Jacinto Antonio Amorim married Placidina Maria Nazareth
they had (at least) 9 children in or near São Sebastião do Rio Bonito-RJ
1. João Amorim - married Maria; supposedly died of STD
2. Maria Nazareth (her Christian name is lacking or it functions as name and surname) Antonia Amorim says she had a son called Pedro who sometimes wrote letters from RJ state; he had a nice handwriting.
3. Adelina Maria Nazareth married Arlindo and went to Paraná; stayed in bed most of the morning and only got up when the sun was up high. Apparently her staple food was angú (maiz flour with water) & beans (feijão).
4. Firmino Amorim aka Danga - was of short stature (like his younger brother Fernando). He used to share accomodation with Antonio & Joaquinzinho, our aunt Francisca de Oliveira's uncle.
5. Joaquim Amorim - died at 2 years old when boiling water fell on him.
6. Aspásia Maria Nazareth - never married ('pura & casta' according to Antonia); Died of electrical shock when she touched a live wire while the electricity grid was being introduced in Marília-SP. She lived in the same quarters as her sister Emilia aka Tia Nenê and her niece Chica (Virgilina).
7. Emília Maria Nazareth aka Tia Nenê born in 1889; six years older than her brother Fernando Antonio, she always lived not too far from him. Migrated to Ourinhos in São Paulo state in 1919, then moved to Marília-SP around the time Fernando re-settled there circa 1932. Emília had at least 2 daughters: Catharina & Virgilina still in Rio. We'll talk about her elsewhere.
8. Fernando Antonio Amorim * 18 May 1895 + 13 February 1969.
9. Virgilio Amorim * 7 June 1900 + 4 September 1986.
João Amorim & his maternal grandmother Florência Rosa de Jesus aka Dindinha.
Today, 16 November 2023, I was thinking deeply about my Grandmother Albina... She didn't have a place of her own. Since my Granfather died in 1969, her house on Rua Mato Grosso, was 'dismantled' and she lived mostly at my aunt Antonia house in Baurú and sometimes she'd stay with Maria Rosa at the other side of Mato Grosso...but she had too many children, like 2 girls and 2 boys. I was wondering how comfortable she felt when moving from Antonia's, Maria Rosa's, Dulce's and in shorter stays at Yolanda's, Francisca's and Eunice's.
Albina was from a rural outfit. She had lots of brothers and sisters who mostly worked in coffee, cotton or sugar-cane plantations. The boys didn't manage to live too long mostly bogged down in alchoholism when adults. Anna actually outlived Albina; Maria Rosa & her husband got detached from the rest while still at a city junction at Luz Railway Station when migrating from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo and was never to be found... And Margarida died in her late 40s.
