Repost for Celito Medeiros, celitofmedeiros at gmail.com
I'm just curious about the Medeiros Family History. I was a friend of José Antonio Gonçalves, from Madeira Island, recently deceased journalist, whose portrait I painted and was invited to exhibitions and TV program of his professional line. I was in the places of Portugal where this genealogical tree begins with Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros (1383), this Family Medeiros is natural of the place of Medeiros, in the parish of Vila Chã, in the Municipality of Montalegre, district of Vila Real, province of Trás- os-Montes between Chaves and Braga, 16 km from the border with Spain, on the edge of the Barroso mountains, the province is called 'behind-the-hills' in the far north of the Portuguese mainland. The parish comprises: Castanheira, Firvidas, Gralhos, Medeiros, Peirezes, Penedones, São Vicente, Travassos de Chã and Trogueda. He took over the mayor of Évora. 1420-1450 - James Guill lists the names of several heads of families in the Madeira archipelago, among which is Rui Vaz de Medeiros. Rui Vaz de Medeiros, who lived in the time of Captain Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros, was a native of Ponte de Lima, Guimarães region, Portugal, fled his father's house and went first to Madeira during the first colonization, where he married D. Ana (or Mecia) Gonçalves de Mendonça, a daughter of a noble citizen, named Jorge de Mendonça. It had sesmaria in Tabua and left generation in this parish Ponta do Sol and Funchal, with good connections of blood. He then moved with his family to the Azores, having settled on the island of São Miguel. My ancestors arriving in BRAZIL. * 1753-Date of the birth of Manoel Jorge de Medeiros, native of Faial Island, parish of Cedros, son of Maria do Rosario de Medeiros and Antonio Jorge Ferreira. Manoel Jorge de Medeiros emigrated to Brazil where he formed a family in the south of Minas Gerais, creating the Medeiros Branch, in the city of Passos, Minas Gerais. Then some went to the North and others to the South of Brazil in the States of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, then to Paraná. General João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, was born in Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul on May 16, 1840 - died in Rio de Janeiro, December 12, 1907). He was Governor of Mato Grosso and Ceará. Minister of War of Brazil 1898-1902. General Octavio Aguiar de Medeiros was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1922, from the new immigration and died in Brasília, September 5, 2005. He was a general of the Brazilian Army and SNI's Chief of the Brazilian General Figueiredo's Presidency. Noé Nunes de Medeiros, was born in 1927, was a politician and farmer of the Agribusiness, in the Municipality of S. Miguel do Iguaçu (due to the origin in the Island of S. Miguel, in the Azores), died in an accident in the Farm in 1971 with only 44 years, I am your son Celito Freitas de Medeiros, of this life (1951), with connections of the history of the immigrants to the USA of 1926, as I already mentioned (reality or fiction?). In addition, in addition to books in Brazil, there is a trilingual (Portuguese - English - Spanish) fiction: The Earth Watchers (AMAZON). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
