The Ancestors of Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira


by William Addams Reitwiesner

The following material on the immediate ancestry of Teresa Simões-Ferreira, the second Mrs. John Forbes Kerry, should not be considered either exhaustive or definitive, but rather as a first draft.





William Addams Reitwiesner


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Ancestry of Teresa Simões-Ferreira
1 Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira, b. Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Moçambique [Mozambique], 5 Oct. 1938,
m. (1) Pittsburgh, Pa., 5 Feb. 1966, Henry John Heinz, III, b. Pittsburgh, Pa., 23 Oct. 1938, US Senator from Pennsylvania from 1977, killed Lower Merion, Pa., 4 Apr. 1991, son of H(enry) J(ohn) Heinz, II, and of Joan Elijah alias Diehl,
m. (2) Nantucket, Mass., 26 May 1995, as his second wife, John Forbes Kerry, b. Fitzsimons Military Hospital, Aurora, Col., 11 Dec. 1943, Lt. Gov. of Massachusetts 1982-1985, US Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 [he had m. (1) Bay Shore, N. Y., 23 May 1970, sep. ... 1982, div. ... 25 July 1988, annul. ... 1997, Julia Stimson Thorne, b. ... 16 Sept. 1944, d. Concord, Mass., 27 April 2006], son of Richard John Kerry and of Rosemary Isabel Forbes.
Further details of his ancestry can be found here.

Issue by first husband:

A.      John Heinz IV, b. ... [ca. 1967].
B. Andre Heinz, b. ... [ca. 1970].
C. Christopher Drake Heinz, b. ... 1973.


Issue by second husband: none.

Second husband's issue by his first wife:

A.      Alexandra Forbes Kerry, b. ... 5 Sept. 1973.
B. Vanessa Bradford Kerry, b. ... 31 Dec. 1976.
PARENTS
2 José Simões-Ferreira, b. Albergaria-a-Velha, ... , oncologist, tropical disease specialist, moved to the US with his wife in 1976, d. Paranhos, Porto, ... 1989
m. ... 1933
3 Irene Thierstein, b. Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique ... 1913, d. Fox Chapel, Pa., 28 Nov 1997 (obit Boston Herald on 29th)
GRANDPARENTS
4 José Simões-Ferreira, b. Sobreiro 17 March 1878, d. ...
m.
5 Margarida Augusta Mourisca, b. Albergaria-a-Velha 30 Jan. 1874, d. ...
6 ... Thierstein, b. ... , d. ...
m.
7 ... , b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS






NOTES




2 -- An article by Kevin J. Kelley, in the March 15, 2004, issue of The East African (Nairobi), available on the Web at http:/allafrica.com/stories/printable/200403160869.html, says that he was "Portugese".

The parentage of José Simões-Ferreira is given at http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en;i=63483, citing Luís Soveral Varella, O Sangue Português de Teresa Heinz Kerry.



3 -- An article by Kevin J. Kelley, in the March 15, 2004, issue of The East African (Nairobi), available on the Web at http:/allafrica.com/stories/printable/200403160869.html, says that she was "Italian-French".







FURTHER NOTES






Some of the ancestry of Sen. John Heinz:

1. (Henry) John Heinz, III,
   b. Pittsburgh, Pa., 23 Oct. 1938,
   US Senator from Pennsylvania from 1977,
   killed Lower Merion, Pa., 4 Apr. 1991.


2. H(enry) J(ohn) Heinz, II
   * Sewickley, Pa., 10 VII 1908
   m. New York, NY, 18 VI 1935 % I 1942
3. Joan Diehl
   * , adopted by her step-father


4. Howard Covode Heinz
   * Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 VIII 1877 
   + Philadelphia, Pa., 9 II 1941
   m. Saginaw, Mich., 3 X 1906
5. Elizabeth Granger Rust
   + Pittsburgh, Pa., 25 IX 1952

6. NN Elijah
   m. 
7. Frances White
   * Iowa 15 VIII 1880
   (she m2. Ambrose Diehl, 
            b. 30 Sept 1871, 
            d. 25 May 1940, Pres US Steel)


8. Henry John Heinz, industrialist
   m. 23 IX 1869
9. Sarah Sloan Young
   * Pittsburgh 
   + 1894

10. Charles A. Rust, 
    b. 26 May 1850
    m. 
11. Louise Granger Miller, 
    * Burlington, Vt., 8 Aug. 1852

14. Henry Warner White, 
    b. 5 July 1856
    m. 
15. Harriet Libby


16. Heinrich Heinz
    * Kallstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, 1811, 
    emigrated 1842
    m. Pa 4 XII 1843
17. Anna Margaretha Schmidt
    * Kruspis über Hersfeld

18. Robert Young
    m. 
19. NN

28. Elijah White, b. Hadley, Mass., 3 Jan. 1830
    m. 
29. Lucy W. Fitch


56. Elihu White (1794-1850)
    m. 
57. Ruth Rider


112. Moses White (1759-1823)
     m.
113. Chloe Peck

114. Isaac Rider
     m.
115. NN


224. Oliver White (-1789)
     m.
225. Abigail Selden

















SOURCES CONSULTED AND CITED


See above.





William Addams Reitwiesner

wargs@wargs.com