Researching Maria Gomes
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 44 people with the Gomes surname? In that year Gomes was ranked number 3535 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Maria means "form of MARY -- bitter" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Maria Gomes on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Maria Gomes and the Gomes Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Gomes Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Gomes family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 1159 people with the Gomes surname in the UK? Gomes is now ranked number 2966 for popularity in the UK. |
Gomes Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Gomes surname in the USA? Gomes is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Maria Gomes
Maria Teresinha Gomes
Maria Teresinha Gomes (1933, Funchal – 2007) also known as a generala was a Portuguese woman notable for spending nearly 20 years successfully pretending to be a male army general.
Gomes was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira and ran away from home at the age of 16. Her parents gave her up for dead while Teresinha made her way to Lisbon.
Gomes' general's uniform was a costume made by a Lisbon tailor for the 1974 carnival. She used the name General Tito Aníbal da Paixão Gomes, the name of a brother of hers, who died as a baby.
Gomes was revealed to be biologically a woman in 1992. She had used her invented position of authority to persuade neighbours to hand over part of their savings for investment. High returns were promised, but never forthcoming.
The resulting trial also revealed that Teresinha had posed to others as a lawyer and an employee at the US embassy. Teresinha was eventually given a suspended three-year sentence. She retreated to a village near Alenquer where she died, too poor to pay for her own funeral, in 2007.
A nurse called Joaquina "Quininha" Costa became Gomes' companion, sharing a house with her for 15 years. At Gomes' trial, Costa claimed that they never shared a bedroom, and that she never suspected that Gomes may have been a woman.
Source: Maria Teresinha Gomes, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Gomes
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