Not necessarily. In medieval times, before c. 1450, N. da Maia indicates
that the person was a landlord, had the 'senhorio' of the place. Maiato
does refer only to the person who was born there.
Manoel
Em sábado, 8 de junho de 2013 10h19min07s UTC-3, Doug Holmes escreveu:
Great to know, Manoel.
Then da Maia and Maiato mean the same thing and could be used
interchangeably by the same person.
Obrigado!
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
www.dholmes.com
Original Message
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: MAIATO surname
From: mances man...@gmail.com javascript:
Date: Sat, June 08, 2013 6:10 am
To: azo...@googlegroups.com javascript:
Hi Doug,
Maiato is someone who was born in Maia, on the Douro region located in the
north of Portugal. It´s a toponymic surname.
Manoel
Em sexta-feira, 7 de junho de 2013 18h51min32s UTC-3, Doug Holmes escreveu:
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
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