George, Just chiming in here if that's okay. My grandmothers family are all Medeiros except those who came west to CA where the name turned into Madeiros. One story I heard was about a family argument and the change in spelling was to separate from the other side on the East Coast. Other, younger, family members have poo poo'd that story. So, regardless of how or why the spelling error came about, the East Coast Medeiros and the West Coast Madeiros are still one family. And, now are primarily here in Northern CA getting along fine.
The story I told is mainly to show you that there can be many reasons why names change in spelling. Another example is my grandfather's case he used Marshall on his first marriage license because his bride's family did not approve of an Irish woman marrying a Portuguese man. I'll skip the word they used to describe all Portuguese people. The change name seemed to have lessened some of the shame her family felt. His second wife was Portuguese and felt no racial animosity towards her own kind. That meant my grandfather could go back to his true surname Machado. Since both marriages produced children from the same father, you might expect them to have the same surname. They did and the didn't. Two children were raised with the Marshall name while the third child,from the second marriage, received the Machado name. The first was considered an anglized version of Machado. A lesson some of us researchers have had to learn, is to include variant spellings (for reasons of illiteracy and foreigners misunderstanding what another is saying) in our searches but also look for anglized versions. Moral of the day: Go with the flow and consider all options, leave judgments back at the bus station. A bit longer answer than you may have expected or wanted, but I hope it had some meritorious value. Gayle > On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:58 PM, George Medeiros <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rosemarie, > I don't have any info but I was wondering if Lisa Madeiras Souza middle > name may have been > spelled Medeiros or if that is a variant of the surname ? When one pronounces > Medeiros like an English speaking person would sound more like Madeiras. > George Medeiros > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Rosemarie Capodicci <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All >> Just putting out this info on the off-chance that someone knows this family. >> My granddad's brother, Joseph Souza had a son George, born 1916. George >> Souza had two sons--Gerald "Jerry" and Robert Allen Souza. Jerry lives in >> the Sacramento area and has sons Stephen, Brian and Daniel. Robert A. Souza >> died in 2012 in Lemoor CA and his wife is listed as Lisa Madeires Souza with >> daughter Allison Hernandez of Clovis CA. >> We have been trying to find this family for years as Uncle Joseph and his >> wife Mildred were divorced and George lived with his mother (who later >> married Joseph Cabral). If this family sounds familier to anyone please >> contact me at my email addy at the bottom of this message. >> Thanks to anyone who may be able to help! >> >> Rosemarie >> [email protected] >> Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, >> Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily >> -- >> 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.
