Article Nº 2638 Family, surname or lineage Vol. II · p. 893
Nunes
The Nunes surname in Madeira, from Fernão Nunes of Gaula to the Porto Santo family of the false prophet Fernão Nunes.
The first person of this surname mentioned in the Madeiran chronicles was called Fernão Nunes. He lived at Gaula and married Helena de Góis, daughter of Lançarote Teixeira, fourth son of Tristão Vaz Teixeira, first donatary of Machico.
In the first quarter of the 16th century a certain Bartolomeu Nunes lived on Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’); he was the father of the false prophet Fernão Nunes, of whom we shall speak elsewhere in this Elucidário.
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