This thread has been very interesting and opened my eyes to new possibilities. It takes great cleverness sometimes to find our Azorean ancestors!
My husband's 2nd grgrandfather was Antonio Pedro Leite, and most if not all of his 5 sons took the "Pedro" as a "middle" name. But when son (our gr-uncle) Joao Pedro Leite came to the states, he alternated between John Peter Leite and John Leite Peters. His children and grandchildren are Peters', not Leites! Finding them was pure serendipity, including my brother-in-law remembering his grandfather had mentioned back in the 1980's that he had cousins named "Peters", which made no sense when he first told me. Eileen Leite Original Message: ----------------- From: John Vasconcelos gfsjo...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:47:57 -0700 To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] First, middle names for Azorean people I can cite another example of an added "alcubha" which occurs in my family tree, that of using the father's first name. as an added alcunha. I have an ancestor, Antonio de Freitas Eduardo. His father was Eduardo de Freitas. In Fajazinha Flores, this alcunha of Eduardo has evolved into a surname. Some members of this family who have immigrated to the US now use Edwards as their surname. ohn Vasconcelos On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:57 AM, John Raposo <marra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > In the parish registers in the 18th century it was not uncommon to add the > person's profession to the last name (without commas) in order to > distinguish António Carvalho Alfaiate from António Cavalho Pedreiro and > António Carvalho Serralheiro, all living in the same village in the same > time period and maybe married to women all named Maria de Jesus. Alfaiate, > Pedreiro and Serralheiro are not their family names although sometimes these > names became the alcunhas for their children and their decendants. Sometims > people think they have hit a brick wall in tracing back because they look > for a marriage of António Carvalho Pedreiro and Maria de Jesus, (which they > cannot find) when they should be looking for the marriage of Antonio > Carvalho, a stone mason, and Maria de Jesus, a houswife. > > John Miranda Raposo > > *From:* celeste perry <ccgran...@yahoo.com> > *To:* "azores@googlegroups.com" <azores@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:03 PM > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] First, middle names for Azorean people > > Denis, > I believe this is the reason the "nick-names" came into use. One Manuel > lived and he was called, "Manuel from the end of the road." I don't know > the Portuguese word for end of the road; however, I think you can see one > way of identifying one Manuel. > As for the Maria thing for the girls, I feel that 90 percent of girls > were named Maria and once they were old enough to move about the village, > they used their first and middle name or sometimes just their middle name > that might be less common. > > Celeste, Hayward, CA > Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com > *From:* Denis Meals <deni...@gmail.com> > *To:* Azores@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 5, 2011 12:50 PM > *Subject:* [AZORES-Genealogy] First, middle names for Azorean people > > Listers: > > I read with interest the recent discussion regarding the 'end-of-the-line' > surnames. Dano on 1 Oct. spoke to this, and I second his comments. > > However, I now have a question to pose to our listers, and ask for their > opinions. > > Azorean first and second names seem to be restricted to only perhaps 12 > commonly used, i.e. Manoel, Jose, Antonio, Joao, Maria, Jacintha, Joaquina, > Umbelina, being perhaps most common. Given that most families had many > children means that within a community, there would have been many named > Manoel, for example. For the older still unmarried, at least several named > Manoel Jose or Maria Jacintha. > > How then did they distinguish between the many same-named individuals > within their immediate community, as well as adjacent villages? > > Denis > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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