Malheiro
Account of the Malheiro family of Funchal, descended from Paulo Malheiro de Melo of Viana do Castelo, who settled in Madeira in the 18th century.
In the early 16th century there lived in Madeira one Bartolomeu Malheiro, who gave a plot of land for the building of a new hospital (see Saudades, p. 645). The present Malheiro family, however, whose representative in Funchal is Dr José Maria Malheiro (1921), the learned administrative auditor of the district, descends from Paulo Malheiro de Melo, a native of Viana do Castelo who settled on this island in the 18th century. In the first quarter of the 19th century there was in Funchal the trading house of Paulo Malheiro de Melo & Filhos, and the Malheiro family was regarded as being of noble origin.