Portuguese Surname?

[Slycooper]

Trying to find out more about the Portuguese surname Botelho. Where in Portugal it orignated etc. I tried searching.

[Rosenrot]

From Ancestry.com

Botelho Name MeaningPortuguese: from botelho, which can denote a measure of grain, a grain sack, or seaweed, and was probably applied as an occupational name for a grain dealer or a gatherer of kelp or seaweed.

There's nothing about the origins.. But some immigrants data
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&gsln=Botelho&db=nypl&gss=genfact&_82004280=Portugal

[Damião de Góis]

I know people with that surname. As with every other portuguese surname it's hard to tell its exact origin. It sound similar to the spanish way of saying "bottle", so it might have something to do with that.

[Slycooper]

Is Botelho common in the Alentejo?

[Damião de Góis]

Is Botelho common in the Alentejo?

I don't know for sure, i'm not from Alentejo only my parents are.

[Catrau]

The first to carry the name Botelho was Pedro Martins Botelho born in 1235, lord of the Quinta (farm) da Boltelha in São Clemente, a village of Celorico de Basto (district of Braga) on the banks of river Tâmega. This is in the northern province of Minho. By this time the Alentejo was in full repopulation and 15 years later all the Algarve was definitely conquered to the moors, so if they moved south, they did it with the country borders established.
He was a nobleman of king Sancho II and inherited from his mother Urraca Pires Martins the solar (mansion) and the farm of Botelha, where is name comes from.

Botelho coat of arms:


http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Botelho.jpg

[Slycooper]

Thanks where did you get your source?

[Catrau]

Thanks where did you get your source?

It's spread all over the internet, I've read it in more than one place but my main source, the one that was more clear to me, was this one:

http://beneditobotelho.blogspot.pt/2009/01/origem-do-sobrenome-botelho.html

and this one:

http://www.significadodonome.com/Botelho/

I found others but they looked a bit confused, some would talk about the same people to carry the names but in a different frame, the XVI century Manuel I court, I think it's too late, this sort of name appeared long before that, in the first decades of the nacionality and even before during the kingdom of Leon rule.

http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Botelho2.jpg

[aimar]

I have never met a Botelho in my lifetime.
They are not common in Beira-Alta

[Atlantic Islander]

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