Thanks Nancy. Still leads me to believe that he was educated and I was impressed with his signature. My dictionary said "scribe" which would be the same thing .
Regards, Maria Elena > On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Nancy Couto <[email protected]> wrote: > > My Collins Portuguese-English Dictionary, which I have on my iPhone, > translates escrevente as clerk, and that agrees with Hermano's definition. > > Nancy > > >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Maria Lima <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. 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