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Álvarez
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Vila Flor

Portuguese town named as the origin of Maria de Sousa’s grandparents and of Violante Nunes’s parents. These are separate source statements about unconnected families.

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Place context

Portuguese town named as the origin of Maria de Sousa’s grandparents and of Violante Nunes’s parents. These are separate source statements about unconnected families.

History

No verified geographic geometry

Inquisition & hidalgo families

Record claim

Maria de Sousa’s family of Verín

Three generations named by a sixteen-year-old defendant in her genealogy session at Coimbra on 2 December 1681: grandparents from Vila Flor, parents and uncles in Verín, siblings in Chaves.

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Scope and reading limits

One process read from all 100 Digitarq images, with a partial edition. Kinship comes from the defendant’s own declarations and one copied confession. Her November sessions name extra uncles and an aunt that conflict with the December genealogy; those are kept as an unresolved reading. Verín lies in Ourense province but outside the Ribeiro, and no connection to other families in this archive or to our own family is established.

Verín (Berim)ChavesVila Flor
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Violante Nunes and her Ribadavia relatives

A family from Vila Flor catalogued in a Coimbra process of 1575–1583, with a sister, a brother-in-law, another sister and a merchant uncle living in Ribadavia.

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15
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Scope and reading limits

Catalogue metadata only; documented means explicit in the catalogue description, not a reading of the damaged folios. Every relationship is stated relative to Violante, so the siblings are not drawn as children of her parents. Luís Álvares and Fernão de Álvares are not connected to any other Álvarez in this archive or to our own family.

RibadaviaVila FlorTorre de MoncorvoLamego
Family reconstruction

Source-local people

Leonor GómezMentioned in the source · Secondary list · traced to AHN, Inquisición, leg. 2042, exp. 45, via Estévez Pérez 2017
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Manuel GómezMentioned in the source · Secondary list · traced to AHN, Inquisición, leg. 2042, exp. 45, via Estévez Pérez 2017
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Fernando GómezMentioned in the source · Secondary list · traced to AHN, Inquisición, leg. 2042, exp. 45, via Estévez Pérez 2017
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