Thanks for sharing.I have some similar stories with name changes and mispellings.George
Sent from my iPod On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:34 PM, "'Gayle Machado' via Azores Genealogy" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). 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