Abreu (Francisco Ferreira de)
Madeiran official and liberal who was exiled under D. Miguel's regime and later held notarial and administrative posts; he also translated works by Blanqui and Cuvier.
In 1828 he was judge of orphans of the captaincy of Machico, having previously served as shipping factor (feitor), clerk (escrivão) of overseas executions and clerk of India and Mina. Arrested as a liberal on the orders of the special judicial commission (alçada) sent to this island under the government of Miguel I, he was taken to Lisbon aboard the brig S. Boaventura and was sentenced, on 3 August 1830, not to return to Madeira for 3 years. On 23 June 1838 he was appointed notary of the mortgage registry of the western judicial district (comarca), and on 11 June 1841 clerk of the Municipal Administration (Administração do Concelho, the government's local civil office) of Funchal. He resigned this last post in order to go to Cape Verde, and died in that archipelago in 1842, at no great age. He served as secretary of the Sociedade dos Amigos das Sciencias e Artes, and translated the Compêndio Elementar de Economia Política by Adolphe Blanqui and the Discurso sobre as revoluções da superfície do globo by Baron Cuvier.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was orphans' judge of the Machico captaincy.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was sentenced to three years' banishment from Madeira for liberalism.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was appointed mortgage-registry notary of the western comarca.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was appointed clerk of the Funchal municipal administration.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu died in Cabo Verde.
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Abroad
- Cape Verde
Archipelago where Abreu went and died.
Cape Verde is an archipelago and Portuguese colony that served as a place of exile and deportation for Madeirans, including liberals in the 1820s, protesters against the dairy decrees and the 1936 rioters. Lowe visited it in 1864 and 1866. It shares one flowering-plant species with Madeira.
- Funchal
Municipality whose administration employed Abreu as clerk.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Lisbon
Portugal. City to which Abreu was sent as a prisoner.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Machico
Captaincy where Abreu served as orphans' judge.
The parish of Machico was the landing place of the discoverers Zargo and Tristão Vaz and the seat of the captaincy of Machico; the parish was founded c. 1450. The Elucidário covers its clergy and stipends, chapels, historical events, mineral springs, localities, population and notable natives.
People
People mentioned · 04- Francisco Ferreira de Abreud. 1842
Orphans' judge of the Machico captaincy in 1828, exiled as a liberal in 1830, and later a notary and municipal clerk who died in Cabo Verde in 1842.
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French economist whose elementary compendium of political economy Abreu translated.
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French naturalist whose discourse on the revolutions of the globe's surface Abreu translated.
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Absolutist king of Portugal whose government sent the commission that arrested Abreu.