Hi Eileen Where in the Azores is your Leite's from?
Tammy Jesso > On Feb 11, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Eileen Leite <[email protected]> wrote: > > My ‘favorite’ name change is this: my husband’s grandfather was Jose Pedro > Leite. HIS father, grandfather and many if not all of his uncles were “ ---- > Pedro Leite’s”. Well, one of his uncles was Joao Pedro Leite. Came to > America, became John Peter Leite. As he went back and forth to the Azores > several times, I can track him in the ship records. Suddenly he is John Leite > Peters, and all of his posterity to this day bear the Peters surname. > > I confirmed it was him because of information in the ship records: wife’s > name, address in Providence, etc. Plus, my husband’s grandfather had once > said he had cousins named Peters, a puzzling statement at the time. > > Eileen Leite > Still having fun doing Azorean family history. > > From: David Perry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] name changes in america > > We all rue the name changes in the Azores but the tradition carried on in > this country as well. We're all familiar with the more common changes such > as Pereira to Perry. However one of my lines went from Medeiros to Medas to > Meetis all in the span of fifty years or so. Another changed from Manuel > Rego to something entirely different because he didn't want to be confused > with his cousin, another Manuel Rego in the same town. Brick walls are > everywhere. > David > -- > 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. > -- > 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. -- 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.
