I thought I'd throw this one out there for the many who are far more knowledgeable about the Portuguese language than I. Years ago I ran across the occupation of a long past multi-great grandfather, Manoel Carvalho. The record is as clean and easy to read as you could ever want, but the occupation is still a mystery to me: bandeira. According to the dictionaries I have looked at, a "bandeira" is a flag. A "bandeirante" is an armed explorer or pioneer of the type that went to Brazil in the late 1600s and early 1700s. In that Manoel Carvalho's last two children were separated by six years (1697 & 1703) and after the six-year gap he was listed as a "bandeira" in the birth of his last child, it was historically and logistically possible that he had gone to Brazil during this period looking for gold and pioneering inland, then returned home after a half dozen years absence, but that's just a hypothesis, and doesn't explain why the occupation is listed as bandeira rather than bandeirante. Any thoughts? Thanks so much --Andy (recto, 2nd entry): http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-RG-MAIA-B-1701-1716/SMG-RG-MAIA-B-1701-1716_item1/SMG-RG-MAIA-B-1701-1716_JPG/SMG-RG-MAIA-B-1701-1716_0026.jpg
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