Hi Eliseu, I should have been more specific with my post and clarified that in my tree I would estimate 95% of Manuel's are first born sons and I have also noted that most first born sons in other family trees from Pico are named Manuel I am not familiar with the general pattern in others islands I realize now I was making a leap.
I will modify my query by prefacing it with the following. 1. Have other members of this list noted if on their family trees the first born son was usually named Manuel? 2 . If so please indicate which island(s) you can confirm this to be the case. On Friday, October 17, 2014 3:25:07 AM UTC-7, Eliseu Pacheco da Silva wrote: > > … never heard of such a tradition as “rule”. May be in a particular family… > > > > *De:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *Em nome de *A Faria > *Enviada:* sexta-feira, 17 de Outubro de 2014 10:20 > *Para:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Assunto:* [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: I am curious about given name Manuel > > > > > The question I am interested in is why is it that the given name Manuel > was usually reserved for the first born son? Does anyone have some ideas? > I realize it became tradition but does anyone have any > > thoughts on how it might have started? > > > > On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 8:00:37 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > I read about Azores naming patterns and it seems like all first born boys > were called Manuel, but I wonder if this is only a Azores pattern or it is > for all Portugal? I am not sure where my Portuguese ancestors are from, but > could I ruled out Azores in case their names do not conform to this pattern? > > On my family what I notice it is that children are named after their > grandparents. > > My grandfather name was Manuel Candido de Souza, and one of my fathers > sisters was Candida Candido de Souza and we didn't know why such a ugly > name. Turned out, Manuel's father's name was Candido Marques de Souza. > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
