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From: Doug da Rocha Holmes <>
Subject: [AZORES-L] Valim in the Azores
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:43:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000c01c2687d$5b8c5780$621a7f18@yourw92p4bhlzg>

At 05:31 AM 9/30/2002 , Etta Daniels <> wrote:
>Can anyone out there tell me if Valine is a Portuguese surname and how it would be pronounced.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Etta


Hi Etta,

In case of interest, I wrote something about it on my website. Find the link from:

www.dholmes.com/rocha1.html

Then I wrote more in an article listed at:

www.dholmes.com/articles.html

A book by Anthony Terra Valim was published a while back about one branch of Valim coming from Ribeirinha, Pico, including a branch using the double name PEREIRA VALIM from Ribeirinha which had moved to Calheta, S.Jorge. He also included another family named PEREIRA VALIM which settled early in Lajes, Pico, both branches having members who settled in CA. Records are not old enough to allow us to connect the two branches from the 1600s. But by no means is it a comprehensive study of all by that surname in the Azores.

Aside from my general interest in Pico families, I descend from a couple branches of the Valim family: one from Santo Amaro and another from Piedade named Gonçalves Valim, the 2nd most numerous Valim family using a double surname combo.

My article mentions the first two named Valim on Pico who supposedly came from France. They arrived sometime in the late 1500s on Pico.

It is not possible to link all named Valim to these first two, but based on a study of surnames and naming traditions, locations, dates and good guesses, I have made an attempt to do so. Someday I will publish it.

If you have a link to any Valim or Valine families, I would be interested in the details. If I correctly recall you have ancestors from São Miguel. I don't yet have any knowledge of a Valim family having settled on São Miguel, but found one listed below.

A modern day distribution of the surname in all of Portugal can be found by doing a search for all with a phone. These results show 21 entries, some being the same person with more than one number:

292 66 67 52adelino valim vieira
piedade - lugar fetais

292 66 63 10bela jesus valim
ribeirinha - ribeirinha

292 66 66 62cidalia maria vitorino valim
ribeirinha - rua terra alta

292 66 66 55domingos valim rosa
piedade - lugar feteira

292 66 62 74helio manuel valim soares
canada de calheta - canada saude

292 66 66 25joao antonio silva valim
calheta de nesquim - lugar cruz da calheta

292 62 25 33jorge valim silveira
madalena - rua bicadas

292 66 64 13jose fernando valim vieira
piedade - fetais piedade

292 66 65 54jose quaresma valim
lajes do pico - lugar ribeirinha

292 62 33 51jose valim garcia silveira
toledos - rua dr joao menezes

292 64 28 19leonel cardoso valim
santo antónio - lugar são vicente

292 66 63 57lizuarte goncalves valim
calheta de nesquim - foros

292 66 66 54lizuarte goncalves valim
calheta de nesquim - ribeira grande foros

292 66 67 36lizuarte goncalves valim
calheta de nesquim - lugar ribeira grande foros

292 66 61 67maria merces valim
ponta da ilha - ponta ilha

292 94 35 30norberto valim garcia silveira
feteira - rua courelas

292 66 60 19paulo jorge valim silva
fetais - fetais piedade

292 67 31 65silvina valim da silva
companhia de baixo - companhia baixo

296 64 23 81manuel humberto valim pereira pimentel
livramento - rua dr benjamin sousa melo

292 94 82 08manuel norberto valim silva
flamengos - rua sao lourenço pre fabricado

295 71 42 08virginia valim rosa giraldes
luz - caminho cima

The one from Livramento is a branch now living on São Miguel, presumably having moved there in the 20th century. The last two listings are from Flamengos, Faial and Luz, Graciosa. All the rest are from Pico. There are none with a telephone living on the continent.

There are also many who emigrated to Brasil and the U.S.

Doug da Rocha Holmes www.dholmes.com
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