Hi Doug, Maiato is someone who was born in Maia, on the Douro region located in the north of Portugal. It´s a toponymic surname.
Manoel Em sexta-feira, 7 de junho de 2013 18h51min32s UTC-3, Doug Holmes escreveu: > > I don't know about you, but I get used to the names in each village and > sort of want them to be the same now as they were 100+ years ago. So when I > visited places on my trips to the Azores, I felt a little more alien than I > thought I would. If I had seen all the same names I got used to seeing in > the old records, I think I would have felt right at home more. > > I think of this because I have a picture of a tombstone from Pico of a > lady named MAIATO. > I never heard of this name and perhaps feel a little out of touch since > it's a name on Pico that I know so well. > But I know it only from 100 years ago and not the present time. > > I also found one Maiato on Terceira, but the rest seem to be from Sao > Miguel. Maybe someone on this list will recognize this surname. I thought I > detected a little Oriental look and figured maybe it's a Chinese family > that settled on Pico and then made their name sound more Portuguese. > > Of course, modern mobility accounts for this transformation in the > populations for each village and island. > It would not be so surprising to find German and Swedish people settling > in the Azores these days, having children who are baptized as Catholics, > etc. After all, many notable foreign families did this in the past few > centuries, like DART, DABNEY, STREET, STONE, ZERBONE, etc. And then there > are many others who came but left little mark. > > And now there is MAIATO. I wonder about their origins. It's a relatively > rare name in Portuguese these days. Everyone I see in Ancestry.com seems > to have Portuguese origins. Is it an alcunha? > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
