I think you may be right about the parents of Catarina vaz. But her son is called Domingos de Abreu macedo and another is called Joao Homem.... so there we have to prove the names of Abreu, Macedo and Homem all together in the family. what do you think? Leandro

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:57:17 +0100, <Gregobhte1@aol.com> wrote: > I think you may be right about the parents of Catarina vaz. But her son > is > called Domingos de Abreu macedo and another is called Joao Homem.... so > there > we have to prove the names of Abreu, Macedo and Homem all together in > the > family. what do you think? It's one hipotesis, of course. It's interesting, however, that the patronimic Vaz appears often in the Azorean HOMEM. As weak as this is, it may be a clue. I suspect from the COLUMBREIRO as well. They may have come all togheter with someone from Azores, or may be related to the families who went there on an early time. Early Azorean settlers often passed through Madeira before establishing in the Islands. Paulo -- " Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres." -- Horacio