Hey there Doug, Maiato is not an alcunha. It is a surname and I have close friends who bear that name from Sao Miguel Island.
Regards Margaret On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:51 PM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote: > I don't know about you, but I get used to the names in each village and > sort of want them to be the same now as they were 100+ years ago. So when I > visited places on my trips to the Azores, I felt a little more alien than I > thought I would. If I had seen all the same names I got used to seeing in > the old records, I think I would have felt right at home more. > > I think of this because I have a picture of a tombstone from Pico of a > lady named MAIATO. > I never heard of this name and perhaps feel a little out of touch since > it's a name on Pico that I know so well. > But I know it only from 100 years ago and not the present time. > > I also found one Maiato on Terceira, but the rest seem to be from Sao > Miguel. Maybe someone on this list will recognize this surname. I thought I > detected a little Oriental look and figured maybe it's a Chinese family > that settled on Pico and then made their name sound more Portuguese. > > Of course, modern mobility accounts for this transformation in the > populations for each village and island. > It would not be so surprising to find German and Swedish people settling > in the Azores these days, having children who are baptized as Catholics, > etc. After all, many notable foreign families did this in the past few > centuries, like DART, DABNEY, STREET, STONE, ZERBONE, etc. And then there > are many others who came but left little mark. > > And now there is MAIATO. I wonder about their origins. It's a relatively > rare name in Portuguese these days. Everyone I see in Ancestry.com seems > to have Portuguese origins. Is it an alcunha? > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- Margaret M Vicente -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
