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Figuerido

Figuerido. Attested in Spain, borne by about 40 people in the registers this map holds.

The spellings of Figueiredo

This is the one list the atlas keeps of which spellings are the same name, and what each rests on. Case, spacing, hyphens and apostrophes are not counted as separate spellings, so De Franceschi and Defranceschi are one form. An accent is: a priest's Lereña is not a clerk's Lerena.

Searching for this name? Try every one of: Figueiredo · Figaretto · Figueired · Figueitedo · Figueredo · Figuerido · Fiqueiredo

The same family

One record, or the family's own tree, writes one person or family both ways.

  • Figueiredo
    what it rests on
    • the correct Portuguese spelling, in the court files and marriage register of this archive's line South Africa, Portugal · the Luwinski family archive

Met on this line's records

Met on a record of this family's line by the archive that read it.

  • Figaretto
    what it rests on
    • an index corruption in the title of a 1950 divorce file; not a spelling anyone would write, and the only way that file is reached South Africa · 1950 · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figueired
    what it rests on
    • a Cape immigration-file index truncates the surname, the final O simply gone South Africa · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figueitedo
    what it rests on
    • the NAAIRS index title of a 1948 divorce file writes a T where the R belongs South Africa · 1948 · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figueredo
    what it rests on
    • a clerk writes this in a 1953 South African marriage register, in front of the bride South Africa · 1953 · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figuerido this page
    what it rests on
    • the NAAIRS index title of a 1953 Transvaal divorce file drops an e South Africa · 1953 · the Luwinski family archive
  • Fiqueiredo
    what it rests on
    • the NAAIRS index files an estate under this spelling that the Union Gazette advertises as Figueiredo: two indexes, two spellings, one surname; also in a Cape immigration-file index South Africa · the Luwinski family archive

Decide each record on its own

Sometimes this family, sometimes another. Decide per record.

  • Figeiredo
    what it rests on
    • one divorce file in the NAAIRS index; not connected to this line, so decide record by record South Africa · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figueireda
    what it rests on
    • one divorce file in the NAAIRS index; not connected to this line, so decide record by record South Africa · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figuerdo
    what it rests on
    • a temporary-permit file for a Goanese individual; a different community, though it shows the permit series is indexed South Africa · the Luwinski family archive
  • Figuereido
    what it rests on
    • one divorce file in the NAAIRS index; not connected to this line, so decide record by record South Africa · the Luwinski family archive
1 look-alike that is not this name — they turn up in searches; do not count them
  • Figueira — a different Portuguese surname, forty NAAIRS files, none of this family; sixteen are Cape immigration papers

On the map

  • A country that counted the name

Where it is borne, and where a record names it. A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the one country where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

40 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Figuerido in Spain, so it cannot narrow Spain's 45,312 volumes by date — see Spain's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

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