Thank you Hermano. That makes sense about the Notario. I will keep in mind to look for the combined names like you said. Yes, genealogy is great!!
Maria Elena > On Jan 16, 2014, at 4:32 PM, "Hermano C. Pires" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Maria Lima > I can't speculate that he may have been anything else other than a clerck. > If he had been a Notary at the time, he would have been mentioned as such > because a notary held highier regard. > As for your questions on Dias and Pereira, if you persue them I would suggest > that you search for them as "Machado Dias" and "Pereira Machado" to avoid > confusion. > And to find as they might relate you pretty well have to develope a family > tree for both untill you find the common ancestor, if in reality there is one. > Isn't genealogy fun? :)) > > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Question on occupation of padrinho > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:55:44 -0600 > To: [email protected] > > Thank you, Hermano: > > Could he have been a notary? If so, then might the priest would have said, > Notario(?). In any case, I'm beginning to see that these two godfathers had > a major influence in the higher education of Domingos Moniz Machado, my > husband's grandfather. For one thing, the father of the youngest child, > died just before the child was born. The godfather of that child was a > negociante (businessman??) Some of the children were named after them I > believe: Domingos Pereira Machado and Manoel Pereira Machado. I need to > track them to see if they were brothers of the mother, Emilia or maybe > brothers of Emilia's father, name Joaquim Machado Dias. I just don't know > now how Pereira fits in . Now I have two totally new names in The tree: > Dias and Pereira. > > I'm curious to see how they tied in to the mother, Emilia Moniz machado. > The more answers I get, the more research I need to do. Thank you > > Maria Elena > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 1:41 PM, "Hermano C. Pires" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maria Lima > > For that time period I would think that "escrevente" means that Domingos was > a clerck in an office of some sort, possibly ? in legal matters. > > > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:22:34 -0800 > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Question on occupation of padrinho > To: [email protected] > > Could he have been a typesetter? Maybe he worked in a print shop, or for the > newspaper setting the print? Or for a book maker setting the print? Would > that also be an escrevente? > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, > Achada > > -- > 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. 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