Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of various
places named Medeiros, from Portuguese and Galician medeiro
‘place where shocks of maize are gathered’ (a derivative of
meda ‘shock’, ‘stack’, Latin meta ‘(pyramid-shaped)
post’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Medeiros
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Medeiros census records
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