*My father who immigrated to the US in 1908, went for a time by the name of John Mendoza (I have seen old utility bills with that name) for a reason lost to history. He is shown on the Ellis Island web site as Joao Vitorino Vasconcellos. His mother's maiden name was *
*Mendonça so I suspect that this happened sometime after immigrating but we have no idea why. When he went back to the Azores in 1928 to marry my mother, he was not yet a naturalized citizen so when he renewed his Portuguese passport, some Portuguese beauracrat must have "corrected" the spelling of his birth name to the modern spelling of Vasconcelos.* *John J Vasconcelos* On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Margaret Vicente <[email protected] > wrote: > The priest wrote it correctly. Mendoza with the diacritic comma > underneath it to soften the Z sound to the C sound. Without the letter N. > > One must remember Portugal had come through the Revolution war of 1640 > against the Spanish who ruled Portugal for about 60 years. With Spain > recognising Portugal only in 1668. > > Mendoza is Spanish and in fact it is originally Galician which was > converted slowly to Mendonza to current day Mendonça. > > Margaret > > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:39 PM, JR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Actually I think it is the usual Mendonça with the n being omitted or >> truncated. We see this all time. Not really a variation, more like letter >> being compacted or missed. >> >> JR >> >> >> On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 6:34:10 PM UTC-4, Sme wrote: >>> >>> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-CH- >>> RIBEIRASECA-B-1698-1716/SJR-CH-RIBEIRASECA-B-1698-1716_item1/P114.html >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> [left side] Ran across this baptismal of what I think is one of my >>> grandaunts. Luzia b: 27 Jan 1708. >>> >>> Father is listed as Manoel Machado Mendoza (with a mark under the >>> "z"). Is this a variation of Mendonça ? >>> >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Suzanne >>> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > > > > -- > Margaret M Vicente > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
