Hi, Peter Thanks for your suggestion. We have them here (in Ovar) but they are of little help for these difficult cases. Now we need assistance @ Pontremoli (Massa): "...risale alle noze tra Martina di Antonio Maraffi e il giureconsulto Paolo Giuliani avvenute nel 1774." Who is willing to ...

Hello ALL We are looking for biographic data concerning Antonio Maraffi. He was dancer, coreographer, author performing in the italian opera by 1770-1790. If no data available, we would like to take the investigation from an expert who could arrive at results / conclusions at reasonable terms. Thank...

Hi, Aether Many thanks for your care. It looks that Italian Maraffa's have a completely different origin from Portuguese Marrafa's. Marrafa in Portugal is (most probably) originating from Italian dancer (balerino) Maraffi, performing at the Teatro S. Carlos (Lisbon) in 1791-1793. We would highly app...

Hello, ALL

How to find the origin (or the meaning) for these two locations Marafi and Marrafa?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks

José Silva

Hello, Peter Thanks for your post 8) That is one possibility but it is difficult to explain how it appeared suddenly in our region (North of Portugal). We have also some references to the influence of that Italian dancer (Maraffi) in Lisbon. Then we would like to investigate this root but we couldn'...

In Italy exist Marraffa(2f) no more info, only that it would seem to come from the Marraf surname present in Marocco... regards, suanj Thank you, suanj What about the Italian dancer (balerino) Maraffi, coming to Lisbon by 1791, with an opera company? How to find all possible documentation? Best reg...

Hi, ALL I'm looking for the origin of surname Marrafa. It was adopted in Portugal by ~1850 but we don't know how it originated. We think it was coming from an Italian artist (singer?) Maraffi... but we did not get any documentation about it yet. Is there some knowledge base allowing us to investigat...