I actually lived in Portugal from September 1985 to
June 1986, and my Portugues friends would jest and
call me carrica, which is a term for a bottle cap.
I was told that Carriço was a portuguese name, but I
wasn't thinking geneological at that time.
In the 1990's my younger brother Vince went to
Portugal and met with some of the Carriço's in Figuera
da Foz, just north of the town of Carriço.
It would be cool to go back there someday, after
dusting off my portuguese speaking ability.
I also spend some time in Spain, and on the Island of
Mallorca, there is a little harbor town called Andraix
that we'd pull into on our way to Barcelona, and there
was a restaurant there called Carrico.
The owners were never there when I was there, so the
mystery continues.
Pete Carrico
Annapolis, MD USA
--- Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM(a)dgmweb.net> wrote:
I just found a Portuguese word, "Carriça," the
common name of Troglodytes
troglodytes, the bird we know in the U.S. as the
Winter Wren, but is known
simply as "Wren" in Europe (in English). With the
cedilla on the c, I presume
it would be pronounced, ka-REES-sa.
http://www.cidadevirtual.pt/p.e.monsanto/fauna_flora/fn_carrica.html
The bird is wide-ranging in habitat, including
suburbs and gardens, and occurs
as a common resident in Portugal.
Diana
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