Re: Ramón Freire Serrano
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Re: Ramu00f3n Freire Serrano
10/22/01
I thank you for the information. But Freire, Galician or not, was a common surname in Portugal. Or perhaps there's more in the difference between Freire and Freyre (wich I always though was just a mistake in the spelling).
I know of lots of people, surnamed Freyre (or Freire), of portuguese background: Isabel Freyre, mistress of the writer Calderón de la Barca; Izabel Ferreira Freire, XV century; Joao Freire de Andrade (and several others Freire de Andrade); Guiomar Carneiro Freire, all related by married to the royal house of Portugal. The names go from the XV century to the XX, husbands and wives of the portuguese nobles.
Freire is friar in spanish, from the provençal -- and I see the connection with Galicia, if we start from that point trying to reach the beginning of the surname. So I would think that the family, starting there, went to Portugal. Ramón Freire's family had Lusitanian ancestors, which can be possible, if this is correct.
I'm trying also to find the connection between Europe and America: who was the first Freire in Chile? Did he came from Portugal? Was Chile the first stop? Some Freire lived in Perú in the 1600's and 1700's. Could that be the starting point, from where the family spread in America?
I thank you again for your answer to my message, and I thank for advance any other information you can give me.
L. BOUDRI
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