The Morais of Ribadavia

The list calls Isabel de Morais a daughter of Xerónimo Morais. Linking this to the Xerónimo de Morais sentenced in 1608 is an editorial reading of the same list.

The list calls Isabel de Morais the widow of the scribe Antonio de Sousa.

The list calls the deceased Alonso Rodríguez de Morais the father of Xerónimo and Antonio de Morais.

The list also calls Alonso Rodríguez de Morais the father of an Antonio de Morais, but three different Antonio Morais appear in it (a merchant of Mirandela aged 36, “the walker” aged 43, and a blacksmith). Which one is meant is unresolved.

The 1604 dowry deed reads “Fernando Álvarez de Morays, [illegible] hijo de Al[ons]o de Morais”, and a 1609 statement calls him “hijo de Al[ons]o de Morais”.

Fernando states that he was married to Bárbara Enríquez, by then dead; the curator’s petition calls her his wife.

Fernando names Mariana, under five, as his and Bárbara’s lawful daughter.

Fernando names Gerónimo, under four, as his and Bárbara’s lawful son.

Bárbara is named as Mariana’s mother in 1608 and in the heirs’ later powers.

Bárbara is named as Gerónimo’s mother in 1608 and in the heirs’ later powers.

The dowry claim names Rodrigo Álvarez and [Ysabel?] Méndez, both dead, as Bárbara’s parents.

The dowry claim names [Ysabel?] Méndez as Bárbara’s mother.

The dowry claim calls Captain Manuel Rodríguez Bárbara’s brother.

Enrique Coronel and Ana Rodríguez are called Bárbara’s brother-in-law and sister.

Ana Rodríguez is repeatedly called Enrique Coronel’s lawful wife.

A 1605 receipt calls Enrique Coronel Fernando’s “tío”. As Bárbara’s brother-in-law he was an uncle by marriage at most; the word is not explained.

The heirs’ powers call Mariana the wife, and later the widow, of Alonso Álvarez.

Ysabel de Morais, reconciled, is called the wife of the late notary Antonio Fernández Sossa.

Estévez Pérez (2017) makes Fernando Álvarez el mozo, with the same wife and children, a son of Felipe Álvarez; this file twice calls him the son of Alonso de Morais. The conflict is unresolved, and the 1608 list keeps Felipe’s son Fernando Méndez separate.

Alonso de Morais may be the Alonso Rodríguez de Morais whose memory was tried in 1609. If so, Fernando el moço and the councillor Xerónimo de Morais were brothers despite some thirty years between them; nothing in either source joins them.

Ysabel de Morais, reconciled widow of the notary Antonio Fernández Sossa, closely matches Isabel de Morais, widow of the scribe Antonio de Sousa, sentenced in 1609.