Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] LEWIS as a surname from Portugal

Wow Eric! I can't thank you enough for finding this information for me! This is very, very helpful, and might have taken me years to find. Louis Jr. left the family in 1941 and nobody ever knew what happened to him, so I thought there was no way I'd find his parents. Thanks again, Kathleen On S

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Re Oakland: Just curious whether anyone here knows if the owners of the Louis Stores (a few grocery stores in Oakland and Berkeley in the mid-20th century) -- as well as Vern's Market at 50th Street and Telegraph Avenue in Oakland (allegedly run by a son) -- were owned by Portuguese-Americans.

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.com Original Message Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] LEWIS as a surname from Portugal From: Karen <kmh4...@aol.com> Date: Fri, February 22, 2013 2:27 pm To: "azores@googlegroups.com" <azores@googlegroups.com> Lorinda,I have the surname Luis in my line from Sao

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Lorinda, I have the surname Luis in my line from Sao Jorge also. Only they are from Ribeira Seca, parish of San Tiago. You may want to check there. My grandfather was Jose Texeira Luis. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Lorinda Sevenans wrote: > I also have a Lewis grandfat

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I have in my file a Emily Lewis who married Joe Santos and moved to Santa Clara, CA In Hawaii she used Luis/Luiz but in California Lewis. Someone is researching this couple but I have not been able to get a response from them. > My dad's side of the family was EASY! (Mostly English with a smatte

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I also have a Lewis grandfather. He was born in Vila do Topo, Sao Jorges, Azore Islandsin 1891 and came to the US in 1901 with his widowed mother and one older brother and a younger sister. The information I was giv

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My mother's family surname is Luiz. That was her grandfather's middle name. He dropped the Noia when he came from Flores to California. Her father used Lewis for a time to sound more American. IT wasn't used by any of the family in Flores, or seen on his baptism record, so I'll assume it was a con

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or Luis On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Kathleen Clark wrote: > So here is my roadblock. My Grandfather's name on the 1940 Census is Louis > R Lewis.Is it it unlikely that Louis is his real first name? I am new to > the Portuguese naming conventions, and new to family tree research. The R > is f

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So here is my roadblock. My Grandfather's name on the 1940 Census is Louis R Lewis.Is it it unlikely that Louis is his real first name? I am new to the Portuguese naming conventions, and new to family tree research. The R is for Raposo and he was born in the Azores around 1908. He had several b

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Oops, that should be his DEATH certificate, not birth certificate. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Lorinda Sevenans wrote: > My grandfather was born in Vila do Topa, Sao Jorges and immigrated to > California at age 10 with his widowed mother and two younger siblings. He > was Joseph Souza Lewis.

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My grandfather was born in Vila do Topa, Sao Jorges and immigrated to California at age 10 with his widowed mother and two younger siblings. He was Joseph Souza Lewis. His birth certificate lists his father's name as ? Luiz (no first name). That's as far as I've gone so far in that line. His mother

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My family used Luiz as a surname. My mom's grandfather came form Flores as Manuel Luiz Noia. He had a cousin in California with the same name, and other Manuel Noias in town, so he filed his citzenship papers without the Noia. My grandfather used the Lewis spelling at times in the 30s and 40s. E

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And sometimes LUIS. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Cheri Mello wrote: > Betty, > > As Jason, Richard, and John said, it's Luiz. Not Lewis. Don't ask me > where my brain was. > > Cheri > > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira d

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Betty, As Jason, Richard, and John said, it's Luiz. Not Lewis. Don't ask me where my brain was. Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@goo

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ogy] LEWIS as a surname from Portugal To add to what Jay said, I agree the name was changed from Luiz, It seems that first names were adopted as family names.  An example I found very common is people with the last name Jose when they came to this country it may have been changed to Joseph. In

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Hi Betty, My grandfather, Francisco Jose Luiz from Faial, came to this country in the 1800's and by the 1900 census had changed his name to Frank J. Lewis. Lewis has been the family name since. However, the tombstone on the family plot in Sacrament, Ca. is inscribed Luiz. Mary Ann In

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Lewis isn't a Portuguse surname. It's an Anglicization of LUIS. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:45 AM, bbffrrpp wrote: > Hello, > > The other day I was doing a look-up in census records for another > researcher. They were looking for a William LEWIS in Bristol County, > Massachusetts.It could ha

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] LEWIS as a surname from Portugal

To add to what Jay said, I agree the name was changed from Luiz, It seems that first names were adopted as family names. An example I found very common is people with the last name Jose when they came to this country it may have been changed to Joseph. In records I have come across a man named Ber

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Betty, I have a number of Lewis cousins that are from the Azores. The name was changed from Luiz. Jay Fraga Massachusetts Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:45 AM, bbffrrpp wrote: > Hello, > > The other day I was doing a look-up in census records for another > researcher. They wer

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Hi Betty, Lewis is Louis in Portuguese. Every time I've gone to the Azores, I had to have a passport to enter the country. So did everyone else in the line. Some with Portuguese passports who needed to show it to come back home. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta