The Faries Family, Bermuda, circa 1916



This is a family group shot of the Faries family of Bermuda, taken in about 1916 or so (judging by the age of the baby identified as my mother).


Family Group


Key

Key
  1. Anthony (third brother)
  2. Anthony Benevides (#10's/#13's husband)
  3. Joseph (second brother)
  4. Nora?
  5. Lilian? (Joseph's wife)
  6. Manuel (oldest brother)
  7. Margaret Pedro
  8. Mary Faries Pedro (sister)

  9. John (fourth brother)
  10. Lillian? (Manuel's wife)
  11. Manuel (father)
  12. Mary? (mother)
  13. Mary? (sister, Anthony Benevides' wife)

  14. Hilda?
  15. ??
  16. Elias (Lillian's son)
  17. James (Joseph's son)
  18. ?? (Joseph's second son)
  19. David (Manuel's son)
  20. Hazel (Mary Pedro's oldest daughter)
  21. Esther (Manuel's daughter)



Warning:

These identifications are from memory by mother, Margaret (Marguerite) Pedro Chiappa (daughter of of Mary Faries Pedro), a few years before her recent death, and may contain errors; I had her look at this picture twice, and got slightly different ID's as to who some of the people were the second time, so take some of the lesser data (e.g. sibling's wives, etc) with a grain of salt.


Notes

My grandmother was Mary Faries Pedro (the first name is definite, from my mother's and aunt's birth certificate); her father and mother were Manuel (the elder) Faries and Mary? Faries.

Her birth date was 2 June, 1895 (although one online source records her birth as being in 1891). She married Joseph Pedro on 14 August, 1912, in Methodist Church, Hamilton. My mother was one of her oldest children, and she was born in 1915, so Mary married, and started having children, fairly young.

My grandmother died on 12/13 November, 1936 (my mother was just 21 when her mother died), after a pedal bicycle accident. My mother said the accident was on November 11, on the South Shore Road, where it intersects Point Finger Road, and that she died from head injuries. Apparently the brakes on her bicycle failed and she collided with a horse and buggy, although my mother recalled that her mother's head injuries were caused by hitting a stone when she fell.

A fair amount of information on her husband, Joseph Pedro, and the rest his family, is available at Patricia Taggett's web site.

I've tried looking in online genealogical databases to see if I can get more details, but so far I haven't found much in any of the free databases (including the very large one the Mormons maintain).




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