Posted By:	Constance Peck
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	Subject:	Re: Cherry Family, Illinois, California
	Post Date:	January 02, 2009 at 00:52:01
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	Forum:	Cherry Family Genealogy Forum
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I assume you have seen the 1870 Jacksonville Ward 2, Morgan, Illinois, that shows a Frank Cherry age 82 Portugal living in the same household? One would think given his age that it is likely that he is the father of Joseph. Still inofrmation not too helpful http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/external.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/exiles.html Protestant Exiles from Madeira in Illinois One of the most unusual Portuguese immigration stories involves a group of religious exiles from Madeira (Portuguese islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco) who settled in Illinois in the 1850s. In 1838, a Scottish physician and Protestant minister on his way to China stopped on one of the islands to recover from a sudden illness. Upon recuperating, he stayed, converting hundreds of islanders to Protestantism. Having become alienated from the vast majority of the Catholics in the islands, these dedicated converts (numbering about 1,000) moved to the British island of Trinidad off the northern coast of South America in 1846. After three years in this new location, the exiles found that they were unable to adjust to the tropical climate and the plantation working conditions. I am not related