Thank you Margaret. I did find her first marriage in São Sebastião:
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-SAOSEBASTIAO-C-1890-1899/SMG-PD-SAOSEBASTIAO-C-1890-1899_item1/P19.html.
Her
age is 17 years in May 1890 which is consistent with what I have for her
birth in Oct
Bill, good work. With reference to changing names. Her name is Maria and
you can verify that against the birth record. The 2nd name is an add on by
the parents and family until Civil registry was implemented in 1911 for the
general population.
There's a couple of possibilities, in my opinion.
sorry Bill, I also meant to say that your best source of information is her
children's birth records for both marriages. They will show if the was a
clerical error or if she indeed used one or the other.
Cheers,
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Margaret Vicente margaretvice...@gmail.com
wrote:
I don't see see the big deal. Portugal has it own customs and culture and
these things just happened, not in any formal sense. People have many names
and sometimes they just get truncated. So over time, you may get to
discover your ancestor's whole name. It may even include a nickname, which
Richard Francis Pimentel
Epping, NH
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Cheri Mello
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:12 AM
To: azores@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Devotional names
I've seen women change their devotional
To add to Margaret's assessment of name change, I have seen the name change
when they move from one freguesia to another, or when they remarry. I even
did it when I went to college, but my new friends heard my old name...
and I was still known as Tish.
Tish
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:35 AM,
I've seen women change their devotional name. Who knows...maybe she prayed
to the Holy Spirit after a hard labor and became Maria do Espirito Santo.
And then there are some that I just can't figure out. Maria de Jesus or
Maria Joaquina or Maria Julia? Is my ancestor having an identity crisis, or
an
ethnographic knowledge of OUR roots?
eliseu
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Para: azores@googlegroups.com
Assunto: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Devotional names
I don't see see the big deal. Portugal has
I don't think anyone was criticizing or Americanizing the names. The
original question asked if women typically changed their names. Most
researchers try to make sense or apply a rule of some sort. It doesn't work
that way with Portuguese names. People responded with a variety of examples
from
Hi Bill,
on the 2nd page, top, the priest wrote Rosa da Conceicao known as Rosa dos
Anjos as per her first marriage, whom I know to be the proper with all the
current documentation..
He's 21, single, locksmith, natural of S. Pedro of this city, residing at
rua dos Foros (Foros St.) of this
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