In a message dated 8/28/2008 6:41:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My Great Grandmother was born in Bretanha about 1833 as Margarida > Pedro Rodrigues. Her husband(Jose da Costa Vasconcellos) went to > Brazil to get established, but family lore says he died of malaria. > Margarida Pedro Rodrigues and her adult children then left for Maui > Hawaii in 1883. In some documents she is listed sometimes as Margarida > de Jesus others show her as Margarida Pedro Rodrigues, but she was > buried as Margarida da Costa.......All this to ask DId widows sometime > revert to de Jesus? > > Thank you in advance. > > Tom Dear Tom:
Your great-grandmother was probably baptized simply as Margarida. She acquired the name Margarida de Jesus from her parents and by the time she was a young woman she would have been known as Margarida de Jesus (not as Margarida Pedro, Margarida Rodrigues or Margarida Pedro Rodrigues: women of that era were almost never known by anything other than their Christian names unless they were socially prominent and/or of the nobility.) So, Margarida de Jesus was a first and middle name, like Michael Edward or Margaret Mary. Pedro/ Rodrigues/ Pedro Rodrigues was her family name and Costa was her husband's name. In the Azores she would have been known as Margarida de Jesus throughout her lifetime. Hope this helps. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
