Thank you so much,Margaret! It helps us to have a little "Portuguese" language lesson for the docs!
Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Margaret Vicente < margaretvice...@gmail.com> wrote: > Attempting to read these records is not easy but this one is very clear. > We must pay attention to the "articles, de, do e da" these help qualify the > nouns and adjectives so we can properly interpret what we're looking at. > > Note it says: do Doutro Caetano Jose de Mesquita. The article do in this > case means belonging or of which then tells us the priest reversed the > letter R and O and he neant to write Doutor {Doctor} > > Cheers. > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:02 AM Richard Francis Pimentel < > richard.francis.pimen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> *I lean toward Doctor if he had meant “doutro” the letter D should not >> have been capitalized. The way to tell for sure would be to check other >> records in the time frame and see if his name is written as Doctor. * >> >> >> >> *From:* azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] *On >> Behalf Of *kennethmoni...@gmail.com >> *Sent:* Monday, July 16, 2018 9:02 AM >> *To:* Azores Genealogy >> *Subject:* [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Godparents >> >> >> >> Hello Maria, >> If you notice the word Dona on the line above, it appears as if the >> second word starts with a capitol "D". This appears to be how this priest >> makes his capitol "D". So it reads "do doutro" which translates to "of the >> other". If that makes sense. >> >> Ken >> >> On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 5:37:01 AM UTC-7, Maria wrote: >> >> TOP LEFT PAGE FOR MARIA (this is a clear record to read) >> >> >> >> 8 th line from bottom regarding the godparents: does that say "do >> outro" or doctor? The Godfather had the same name as his father so it >> makes sense the priest wrote "do outro". However, the way the priest >> wrote the word "do" twice, I thought it might be doctor(?). (Did they even >> use that title?). >> >> I also thought this because the godmother had the title of "Doña". It >> was interesting that the last names were so similar to the last name of the >> parents: Marques and Marquita. >> >> >> >> Im still confused why does the priest write "filhos familiar" instead of >> just the word filhos? >> >> >> >> Any light on this would be appreciated. Thank you. >> >> >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG- >> PD-SAOROQUE-B-1814-1821/SMG-PD-SAOROQUE-B-1814-1821_item1/P177.html >> >> Maria Elena >> >> -- >> 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. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> >> -- >> 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. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > > -- > Margaret M Vicente > > -- > 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. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.