Hello everyone, I just found a marriage that took place in Lisbon (19 June 1821), where a portuguese woman married a man named "Vicente Roseira". The record made by the priest states that Vicente was born at "St. Gallo, in the Bohemian Kingdom, son of Francisco Roseira and Catarina Nasella" (maybe his mother surname was Nasella, Natella or something like that, it's a difficult handwriting to be read) This supports his family belief that their great-grandfather "came from Prague, Czechoslovakia" and that "Roseira" is a portuguese way of writing a czech surname, something like "Rotzinska". In a previous topic it was suggested by some people here that "Roseira" (means rose-bush) could be a portuguese form for Růžička (although Rodziński or Roziński could be other possibilities if his family was from Poland). Can anyone tell me if there is a czech town, village or parish by the name of "St. Gallo" (or maybe St. Gall or St. Gallen) ?... Thanks a lot for your help. Pedro
No such town according to one database of Czech towns (I tried it even for the cases without that "St.").
An aditional information: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Saint Gall, an irish saint who lived in the VIIth century, has many churches and places dedicated to him all over Europe (most well known place: St. Gallen, Switzerland). The same source also tell us that "in the most ancient manuscripts he is called GALLO, GALLONUS, GALLUNUS, and sometimes also CALLO, CHELLEH, GILLIANUS, etc." Is it possible that a church in Prague is dedicated to him? Pedro
The Czech form of Gallus is Havel (maybe you heard about the first Czech president Havel). The best known church of St. Gallus (sv. Havel) is in Prague, Old Town. BTW Gallus means cock (or Gaul, Celta) in Latin.
