For what it is worth Ancestry has this on the origin of the name Cordeiro,
Cordeiro Name MeaningPortuguese and Galician: from cordeiro ‘young lamb’ (Latin cordarius, a derivative of cordus ‘young’, ‘new’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, or a nickname meaning ‘lamb’. Tony On Sunday, December 29, 2013 2:24:03 PM UTC-8, Licinio Miranda wrote: > > Hello all! I am descended from the Cordeiro de Miranda family from the > Azores. > > Thanks to John Miranda Raposo I learned that my family surname is not > truly "Miranda", but "Cordeiro". The manuscript sent by John Raposo to my > uncle more than 10 years ago wondered how the Miranda name appeared. > Perhaps he found the answer in the mean time. > > What is the origin of the Cordeiro family? Converted Jews or Moors? Or > people who worked with cords? > > My patrilineal line goes as follows: Licínio Nunes de Miranda (1984-) -> > Antônio Nunes de Miranda (1946-) -> Licínio Nunes de Miranda (1906-1996) -> > Luiz (or Luís) Cordeiro de Miranda (1869-1959). > > I can't remember the names before Luiz Cordeiro, although John Raposo's > manuscript provided info up to the middle 18th century (I would have to > check it in my parents' home in Brazil; I'm now in the US). > > Regards to all, -- 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.
