Not necessarily. In medieval times, before c. 1450, N. da Maia indicates that the person was a landlord, had the 'senhorio' of the place. Maiato does refer only to the person who was born there.
Manoel Em sábado, 8 de junho de 2013 10h19min07s UTC-3, Doug Holmes escreveu: > > Great to know, Manoel. > > Then "da Maia" and "Maiato" mean the same thing and could be used > interchangeably by the same person. > > Obrigado! > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: MAIATO surname > From: mances <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Sat, June 08, 2013 6:10 am > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > 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.
