A.K.A. Poppy--"I need your help"

I received a phone call this afternoon from my oldest grandson, he's in the fourth grade and the project is due Tuesday. He had to answer 10 questions about someone in the family who emigrated to this country.
So I thought my mom was the most recent (1920) and the youngest (age 4) and I have the most information on her. She was born in 1915 in the Azores, in the village of Sao Amaro on the island of Sao Jorge. Her parents were here before (her older sister was born in the U.S.) but returned to the Azores.


The family returned here on the S.S. Manchuria, sailing on 7/28/1920 and arriving in N.Y. on 9/4/1920. From there they went back to Taunton Ma.
Her father was a weaver in the cloth mills of Southern New England.
I received most of this info after I had posted on a Google group for Azores genealogy. The folks there were so helpful. Of course this made me go off onto another tangent and I looked into the history of the Azores. I found one of the early settlers in 1439 was a Flemish knight William van der Hagen of Bruges , which the Portuguese translate as Silveira Borges. This is the name my mother had written down for her mother, grandfather and great grandfather. I had always thought it as a middle and last name, but it seems it was combination name carried down though the ages. At any rate to get to the point, my ggrandfather did not approved of my grandmothers marriage.
He felt she married beneath herself and disowned her. Love is blind. They were married for almost 50 years and raised two great daughters.

A Look Back On Fathers Day

I wanted to make a collage, so I thought I would give you girls a look at your father
as he started out. As you can see I've always have needed the "Husky" size. I also thought I would include my other grand father, Abel Freitas. It's the only picture of him that I have at the moment. Now I need to find a picture of Leo and Harrison.