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Post by kencarvosso on Mar 22, 2021 6:18:34 GMT -5
Our surname is Carvosso which we have always believed to be Spanish/Cornish in origin. Indeed, there is a church in the USA with the name and that origin. Of late we have begun to believe it is actually Portuguese as it end with a vowel. Can anyone throw any light on this.
Also, I am told the ships’ manifests of crew names is held in Corruna library. Anyone help on that?
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Post by tenpoundpom on Mar 22, 2021 6:44:04 GMT -5
Our surname is Carvosso which we have always believed to be Spanish/Cornish in origin. Indeed, there is a church in the USA with the name and that origin. Of late we have begun to believe it is actually Portuguese as it end with a vowel. Can anyone throw any light on this. Also, I am told the ships’ manifests of crew names is held in Corruna library. Anyone help on that? Carvosso (and variants) is recorded as a Cornish surname fwiw. And there are Carvosso place names in Cornwall. Probably no Spanish or Portuguese connection. Cornish surnames beginning with "C"Are you able to determine when your ancestor arrived in USA? I presume that's where you live. The sleuths from here may be able to tell you whether he came from Cornwall. Simon |
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Post by kencarvosso on Mar 22, 2021 18:50:35 GMT -5
No, I live in the UK
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Post by zibetha on Mar 22, 2021 22:45:47 GMT -5
Hi, Ken, Last time I wrote to a member seeking information from A Coruna, it was not available online, but there were email addresses to request information. We have a thread re: DNA and Spanish connections, etc. I have taken the mtDNA test at my FtDNA and do have connections via Spain, Portugal and Brazil. I will help if I can. The influence seems to be real. I might do this one if I could. caminoways.com/camino-ingles/celtic-caminoZib |
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Post by zibetha on Mar 22, 2021 22:57:42 GMT -5
I think there was a major shipwreck and a number of
Cornish burials at the San Amaro Cemetery.
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Post by zibetha on Mar 23, 2021 2:05:12 GMT -5
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Post by donne on Mar 23, 2021 5:19:02 GMT -5
There are plenty of possibilities in Cornwall. Have a look at the Cornwall OPC database for baptisms, for example, at www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/baptisms/ . Putting 'carvos' in the surname field (to cater for most spelling variants) brings up 120 entries ranging from a CARVOSOW at St.Just-in-Penwith in 1688 to a CARVOSSO at Falmouth in 1874. Of course, not all of these recorded baptisms are separate individuals since some are duplicate entries from different sources, but there do seem to be several family lines of that name in Cornwall. It shouldn't be too difficult to find a link, if there is one, with such a relatively uncommon name. |
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Mar 23, 2021 10:37:27 GMT -5
I would go a little bit further than that by adding a wildcard (%) and search for c%rvos which would cater for odd interpretations of difficult handwriting and damaged pages. You might also broaden the search by searching on c%rv which would bring up many more entries but also give you more work to do in order to weed out anything that might not be relevant. But you do bring more variations into play by broadening the search.  Also - 'a', 'e', 'o' and 'u' are easily mistranscribed form old records but it is also possible you might run into problems with the latter part of the name where you often find 'ss' involved. In old handwriting you will often find 'ss' written as 'fs' so your name might look like 'carvofsowe' for example. In those cases it is quite possible that the name has been transcribed just like that (i.e. 'carvofsowe') in which case it would not show up in search results if you searched using the term 'carvos'. CT |
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