Article Nº 3209 Family, surname or lineage Vol. III · p. 367
Ribeiro
Note on the Ribeiro surname in Madeira, descending from Manuel Afonso Sanha and Leonor Ribeiro.
The people of this surname, says Dr Álvaro de Azevedo, descend from Manuel Afonso Sanha and his wife Leonor Ribeiro, who died in 1536. There was also a Pedro Ribeiro, who married Mécia Carvalhal; both lived around 1500, and their descendants took the surname Carvalhais.
People mentioned
- Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo 1825–1898
- Leonor Ribeiro d. 1536
- Manuel Afonso de Sanha d. 1507
- Mécia de Carvalhal
- Pedro Ribeiro