Researching in Terceira just now and was reminded of your Canhoto nickname.
I have 8 people using that as a surname, most from Terceira and ranging from the 1500s to 1800s.
There are Fernandes Canhoto, Gomes Canhoto, Cardoso Canhoto, Machado Canhoto and Vieira Canhoto.
I'm sure you know, but some might not realize that a great many surnames today started as a nickname.
Even Furtado, for instance.
To an English speaker, it's often funny to translate surnames. It's not Portuguese, but just tonight we were having salad with bacon bits and my in-laws from Slovakia were saying the word "slanin" and so I asked my son if he knew what that means and he says "bacon." So then I asked does he realize he has ancestors named Slanin? And he just laughed, but it's true. That was my wife's late grandmother's maiden name.
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Nicknames
From: A Faria <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, September 20, 2014 1:21 pm
To: [email protected]
John,
I knew an old fellow in Almagreira, Lajes do Pico with the alcunha of Canhoto everyone referred to him by that behind his back but they never dared saying it to his face he would throw a fit! For some reason certain alcunha's only apply to certain people but others are passed on because his son and grandson aren't known by Canhoto.
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