The Roque name comes from Roque Rodrigues cc Rosa Jacinta, in Rosto do Cao, 24-10-1810. Presumably, Roque was named after the parish Saint.
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-SAOROQUE-C-1797-1814/SMG-PD-SAOROQUE-C-1797-1814_item1/P146.html On Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 8:07:09 PM UTC-4, Jose Medeiros wrote: > > Sandy, > > When the Rodrigues added the Roque to the family name? > > JM > > On Monday, September 10, 2018 at 10:57:12 PM UTC-4, Sandy M wrote: >> >> I too have him in my tree he was my 1st cousin 3x removed. I have traced >> the Rodrigues Roque back to when they were just Rodrigues, I had to take a >> break from researching and stopped on Gaspar Rodrigues abt 1650. My tree is >> on Ancestry, and I have doen my DNA with Family Tree. >> >> Sandy >> >> On Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 12:09:24 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: >> >>> Repost for Melissa, melissa.azevedo at mail.mcgill.ca; Posting to a >>> thread over 30 days old; Addressed to "Karen" - don't know which Karen on >>> this list. >>> >>> I've just started my family tree and have an Antonio Rodrigues Roque as >>> a great-great-grandfather (he's my dad's great-grandfather, so I guess you >>> two would be distant cousins). I'm looking for info about him and I was >>> wondering if you had a record that said he was born in 1865 (or is it an >>> estimate?). He was married to an ''Amelia'' right? My great-grand-father >>> would be his son, Antonio Rodrigues Medeiros. >>> >>> -- 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.
