Hi Maria, I have some "mariante" in my tree. It means Sailor, seaman and i think it could be also fisherman. The current writing is mareante.
https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa/mareante quinta-feira, 23 de Agosto de 2018 às 18:07:51 UTC, Maria escreveu: > > The baptismal record of someone born in 1772 on Santa Maria Island said > the father Was a " MARIANTE". > > I googled it on Wikipedia and it's the Portuguese Marine Corp. So I > guess in 1772 this person was a member of the Portuguese Navy. The > Portuguese Marine Corp was founded in 1618. They have their own Coat of > Armor. I wonder what was happening around 1772 years in Portugal. Any > insights? > > It helps getting an idea of what this person did. > > Are my assumptions correct? MARIANTE was a marine? > > cool to get info on someone who lived so many years ago. > > Maria Elena -- 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.
