My grandfather's family is Noia from Flores. I have all of the Flores history and geneaolgy books in print. The consensus is that there are two Noia lines. One leads back to
Sao Miguel and before that to Porto Santo, Madeira. This line is centered in Santa Cruz. The other Noia group comes from the town of Noia, on the coast of Galicia, Spain. It is a closest seaport to Santiago de Compostela. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noia> Bartolomeu de Noia is the originator of this line centered in Ponta Delgada. He died there in 1680. This is my line. I have a document chain back to him. In America, it some times became Noya. There is no shortening it. My great grandfather dropped the Noia name at naturalization, and used his middle name Luiz instead. I've spent 20 years picking apart the various Noia lines. If you have more information for me, I can see where it fits in. Eric Edgar On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Repost for <no name>, 1halfazorean at gmail.com > > I googled my great grand mother’s name ( Nunes )and came across a thread > with past relatives of her husband Antonio Noia! My great grand father > naturally. Wow. It also lists their three children, my great aunt & uncle > and my grandmother. Very interesting. It also mentions my mothers two > brothers and not her or her two sisters or her! Reading through all the > past generation with all the familiar last names and some of the first > names is amazing. Sure wish my mom was alive to see this information. > My question is, where did the Noia name begin? António Fraga sees to > have started it all in the Azores, Flores. Fraga, Carvalho, Pimentel, De > Jesus are also mentioned. I don’t see where the name Noia actually enters > the family!? Also mentioned is that, Noia was shortened or altered once > arriving in America. > Anyway, any comments welcome > > -- > 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.
