For what it is worth Ancestry has this on the origin of the name Cordeiro,
Cordeiro Name MeaningPortuguese and Galician: from cordeiro ‘young lamb’ (Latin cordarius, a derivative of cordus ‘young’, ‘new’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, or a nickname meaning ‘lamb’. Tony On Sunday, December 29, 2013 2:24:03 PM UTC-8, Licinio Miranda wrote: > > Hello all! I am descended from the Cordeiro de Miranda family from the > Azores. > > Thanks to John Miranda Raposo I learned that my family surname is not > truly "Miranda", but "Cordeiro". The manuscript sent by John Raposo to my > uncle more than 10 years ago wondered how the Miranda name appeared. > Perhaps he found the answer in the mean time. > > What is the origin of the Cordeiro family? Converted Jews or Moors? Or > people who worked with cords? > > My patrilineal line goes as follows: Licínio Nunes de Miranda (1984-) -> > Antônio Nunes de Miranda (1946-) -> Licínio Nunes de Miranda (1906-1996) -> > Luiz (or Luís) Cordeiro de Miranda (1869-1959). > > I can't remember the names before Luiz Cordeiro, although John Raposo's > manuscript provided info up to the middle 18th century (I would have to > check it in my parents' home in Brazil; I'm now in the US). > > Regards to all, -- 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.
