Re: [ranchos] Re: Naming Patterns

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

thanks for your input.

aajay1073 wrote:

> I read somewhere, {and I can't remember where, but I tried looking 
> for my source for this information},
one day when you unexpectedly come across it please do send it in to the 
group, thanks.
> that if the wife's family was of 
> a higher status or surname was 'better' {in using measurements during 
> that time period}, then the males in the family took the wife's 
> surname which would then pass to their children.  And the females 
> took the husband's surname which would get passed to their children 
> as the secondary surname.
> In terms of mispellings or spelling variations.  Again, I read 
> somewhere, the person recording the name tended to be more educated 
> then the general people. Therefore, it would have been 'beneath' him 
> to ask how to spell a name to someone who was less educated them he.  
> The ability to read and write was not wide spread, but more than 
> likely even those people who did know how to write, were probably 
> still not asked the correct way to spell their name.
this sounds right. . .but now I have a specific question.

Has anyone ever seen an Variant spellings of Maldonado?  If you have 
what might those variants be? I eagerly await anyones reply to this as 
I'm in the middle of another possible confusion. . .believe me it 
doesn't take much to accomplish this.
thanks again,

joseph

> just me two cents...
>
> Angie
>