Article Nº 3724 Family, surname or lineage Vol. III · p. 682
Vasconcelos
Notes the four branches of the Vasconcelos surname in Madeira and their founders.
There are, it seems, four branches of this surname. One descends from Martim Mendes de Vasconcelos; another from Mem Rodrigues de Vasconcelos, who was married to Dona Catarina Furtado de Mendonça, eldest daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo, first donatary (donatário) of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’); another from Gaspar Mendes de Vasconcelos, who married a daughter of Tristão Vaz Teixeira; and the fourth from Fernão Tavares de Vasconcelos, a native of Freixo de Numão, who settled in Santa Cruz (‘Holy Cross’) around 1540. See Ornelas.
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