Thank you for your help Sam, Gayle & Joao. I appreciate your help. It's just spins your head with all the different names one family can have.
Regards, Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From: Joao S. Lopes To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:39 PM Subject: Res: [AZORES-Genealogy] do Coracao de JESUS Coracao de Jesus (= Jesus's Heart) was a devotional name, and women in the XVIIIth century specially, have mainly such names, frequently without familiar surnames: "do Nascimento", "da Luz", "de Jesus", "de Santo ...", "da Piedade", da Trindade. Sometimes, these devotional names got "frozen" and became familiar inherited surnames. JS Lopes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ De: Sam Koester <[email protected]> Para: [email protected] Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 23 de Junho de 2010 18:45:34 Assunto: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] do Coracao de JESUS Others with more knowledge will no doubt answer you but; my thoughts are, “no” Antonia is part of her “given” name. Whether you call it part of her first name, her middle name or one of the names she was know by; it’s pretty much all the same. I, personally, would not call Coracao de Jesus part of her first name. It is devotional, in my opinion, not what we would consider a “given” name. Again, just my two cents worth. Sam in CA From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michelle Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] do Coracao de JESUS My cousin recently found some of our family at the NEPS site (Sao Roque, Pico) and my ggrandmother's name is shown as: Maria Antonia do Coracao de JESUS She was listed under Rosa but her husband was Anacleto Francisco da Rosa, so if "do Caracao de Jesus" is part of her first name then would Antonia be her surname? Thank you, Michelle -- 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, log into your Google account and 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." -- 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, log into your Google account and 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." -- 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, log into your Google account and 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." -- 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, log into your Google account and 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."
