Brief Life History of Maria
When Maria Valente was born about 1692, in Itu, São Paulo, Brazil, her father, Antonio Valente, was 34 and her mother, Antônia Rodrigues, was 31. She married João de Oliveira Falcão on 5 June 1708, in Nossa Senhora da Ponte, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 10 daughters.
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- Maria Valente na entrada para Vicente Ferrera Machado e Antonia Leite, "Brazil Marriages, 1730-1955"
- {name} na entrada para João Lomedes, “Portugal, Coimbra, Registros Paroquiais, 1459-1911”
- Maria Valente na entrada para Joam De Afonseca Ribero e Izabel De Godoy, "Brazil Marriages, 1730-1955"
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Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Mario, Angelo, Salvatore, Antonio, Sal, Rocco, Carmine, Gino, Carlo, Enrico, Gabriele, Nicola, Pasquale. Spanish Manuel, Jose, Carlos, Fernando, Luis, Renato, Rigoberto, Armando, Claudio, Francisco, Jaime. Portuguese Joaquim, Ilidio, Joao.
Italian, Galician, and Portuguese: nickname from valente ‘brave, valiant’.
Italian: from the personal name Valente, from Latin Valens, from valens ‘strong, healthy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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