LoneyBones Second Chance Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[LoneyBones]

Annie, that url needs to be cut back to ;
http://www.portugueseancestry.com/lwi/genealogy/
if anyone else wants to use it.

Added; only some of the links work, and it's all in Portuguese.     

[aniph]

Blow, I had English pages and now I can't find it again

[LoneyBones]

Never mind. 
I think I'd better go and feed the family.
TTFN.

[youngtug]

Hi LB, pity about that, if you are joined up with geneanet and have specified the the names you most want to research, they send you a search result every couple of weeks.  Want to try another, this one is a bit strange in places but a different approach can sometimes work. ;  http://www.myheritage.com/genealogy-center?fsn=&page=1&action=search&query=enos&firstName=

[LoneyBones]

Thanks youngtug,
I'm saving all the links so I can look at them more thoroughly later.

[majm]

Hi LB,

I'm thinking "outside the square", and trying to figure out where to find info for his NZ arrival ... to then work backwards !

So, from the UK A2A site I've been reading various guides ... eg http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp?j=1

" 19.3. New Zealand
The first European settlement of New Zealand was around 1820. Details of British emigrants may be found in CO 208 : New Zealand Company Original Correspondence, 1839-1858. The New Zealand Company was formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It surrendered its charter in 1850 and was dissolved in 1858. This series of records contains registers of cabin passengers emigrating, 1839-1850, in CO 208/269-272 , applications for free passage, 1839-1850, in CO 208/273-274 (indexed in CO 208/275 ), applications for land, lists of landowners, in CO 208/254-255 , lists of agents and surveyors, lists of German emigrants, and lists of maintained emigrants.

For further information check the web site for Archives New Zealand at www.archives.govt.nz. "
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=292

There's many many many pages in those guides

Have you trawled through the New Zealand Company in case your John Innis/Ennis etc was employed by them ?  The guide seems to suggest it surrendered its charter in 1850, which would be around the time your chap would have been NZ based.   Perhaps if he was seaman, he and his fellow crewmates were basically left in NZ without funds or employment prospects.

Cheers,  JM

[LoneyBones]

Just doing a re-cap here;
I think we are lookin for;
"Joao INACIA" born Faial, Azores, 1830.
Parents- Joao INACIA and Louisa CONSTANCIA.
(I did think about ENOS as a surname....but on the whole, I have a feeling it's INACIA. Very scientific. )

If anyone knows for sure that Joao translates as John I'd appreciate some assurance.

I'd also like to find John/Joao before his arrival in New Zealand. I'm presently looking at ship lists, I'm inclined to think a whaler. So some help here would also be appreciated. Does anyone have access to NZ arrivals? I'd imagine between about 1845-51.

None of this really surprises me. Knowing how officials, especially of British background, in USA and Australia made free with people's names....and knowing that John was not fully literate. If some ship's captain or imigration official said, "Well, I can't spell that, so you're John Innis from now on." he would have just accepted it.

So, it's back to the rock face and get to it. 

[majm]

I like your re-cap, I needed it  ,  I should have twigged to the "Constancia" clues. 

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

Joao is definitely Portuguese for the John in English

Looky 

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/portuguese-english/joao