The SHARE meetings are bi-monthly seminars created, coordinated, and held by doctoral students enrolled in the third cycle of studies in history, archiology and geography of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho / Lab2PT. Besides being an opportunity for doctorate students to meet, each session enables a doctoral student to present the progress of their research and receive contributions from their peers.

SHARE.ICS #10 Fátima Silva | Madalena’s natives in the city of Horta (19th century)

This presentation will focus on the mobility of people from the island of Pico, with a special focus on the village of Madalena, to the city of Horta (island of Faial) in the 1830s. For this purpose, we will use the lists of residents of this city that were ordered by the Provisional Government of the Azores, in the context of Portuguese political instability. Finally, we will cross-reference the population lists and the Repository, which will allow us to follow the life trajectories of these individuals, compared to their siblings, and to identify some of the social trends of these migrants. Our aim is to better understand the constraints that possibly motivated the mobility of these individuals, such as the transmission of inheritance.

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Image: Arquivo Regional dos Açores. Pedrozo. Cidade da Horta (s/d).