Celeste,
I read somewhere that names like Camara, Santos, De Jesus were surnames
that were given to children who were abandoned or of the wheel - da roda.
I did find in my own genealogy in the north of Portugal, that a baby was left
on an ancestors doorstep and that ancestor took the baby to
In a message dated 8/28/2008 4:54:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I read somewhere that names like Camara, Santos, De Jesus were
surnames that were given to children who were abandoned or of the wheel -
da
roda. I did find in my own genealogy in the north of
My grandmother to my mom was Isabella Victoria Machado; on one of her
records, her father is Victor da Costa Machado, her father is really Antonio
Victor. Wish I knew who is Victor da Costa Machado was. I'm assuming this
might be the family that took them in when the parents died? One of her
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