Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in either Corvo or Flores?

2009-11-23 Thread eric edgar
t; > > -- > > *From:* John Vasconcelos [mailto:gfsjo...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:30 PM > *To:* azores@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in > either Corvo or Flores

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in either Corvo or Flores?

2009-11-19 Thread Jason Fraga
com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:30 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in either Corvo or Flores? Jason, I would be willing to bet that if you could trace your Fraga line back far enough, you would eventually come to a

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in either Corvo or Flores?

2009-11-19 Thread John Vasconcelos
Jason, I would be willing to bet that if you could trace your Fraga line back far enough, you would eventually come to a "Jacob de Fraga". On Flores (and by extention on Corvo since there is a lot of intermarriage between the two islands) there have been several instances of using what is normally

[AZORES-Genealogy] Significance of the surname "Jacob" in either Corvo or Flores?

2009-11-19 Thread Jason Fraga
Does anyone know anything about this surname? In my line, it first shows up in 1767 with the Corvo birth of my 4XG Grandfather, Jose de Fraga Jacob. It does not show up in any of the three generations before him that we know of, although Fraga certainly does. He passes it on to his son (my 3X