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family names. In our own country we have a 

 pretty accurate notion, when a man is called 

 Stanley, or Percy, or Herbert, whether he is of 

 the race or a pretender. Here it is very diffi- 

 cult for a foreigner to distinguish. Many of the 

 great names survive to-day — Aguiar, Almeida, 

 Camara, Correia, Freitas, Goncalvez, Leal, Or- 

 nellas, Perestrello, Vasconcellos, and others. 

 Some of these are to be found borne by 

 members not only of the upper but of the 

 lower classes. 



Among the historic Madeira families are 

 some derived from foreign adventurers who 

 arrived after the occupation. There are Drum- 

 monds (pronounced Drumont) to-day who are 

 descended from John Drummond, son of Sir 

 John Drummond, Lord of Stobhall, brother of 

 Annabella, queen of Robert IH. of Scotland. 

 He came to Madeira in 1425, probably as a 

 refugee, and only revealed his real name on 

 his death-bed. The Esmeraldos, perhaps the 

 greatest of Madeira families, descended from 

 Jean d'Esmenaut, a Fleming, who arrived in 

 1480. A Knight of the Order of Christ, named 

 Robert Willoughby, came from Portugal in 

 1590. His name was corrupted to Vizovi. 



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