Caniço
Caniço · Santa Cruz
parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira
Caniço is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz, lying on the boundary between the captaincies of Funchal and Machico. Its early settlers included Gaspar Rego, Vasco Fernandes Rego and Álvaro de Ornelas, whose family founded morgados there; its alcaide and judge were appointed by the Funchal senate. The parish includes the Garajau statue, the Jesuits' Socorro residence and the Quinta do Barão da Conceição.
1Mentioned in
- Levadas — Its farmers offered to finish a levada to irrigate the area.
- Police — Locality for which Funchal council appointed an alcaide.
- Borage (Borago officinalis) — Borage is found there.
- Malheiro de Melo (Patrício) — Where he died.
- Rego (family) — Parish where Gaspar Rego and Vasco Fernandes Rego were among the first settlers.
- Municipal councils — Its alcaide and judge were appointed by the Funchal senate.
- Ornelas — Parish where Álvaro de Ornelas received his land grant and the family's morgados were founded.
- Garajau (cape) — Parish where the statue stands.
- Tomateiro do Diabo (Solanum sodomaeum) — The plant is naturalised here.
- Jesuits — Parish of the Socorro residence.
- Quintas — Location of the Quinta do Barão da Conceição.
- Jasmines — Another locality of J. odoratissimum.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Feast of Nossa Senhora do Livramento, known for strings of dried pears.
- Dress — Parish where men wore palm-leaf hats.
- Inscribed stones — Parish church with a 1789 inscription.
- Statutes — Parish of the Santíssimo Sacramento confraternity, charter 1902.
- Fortifications — Site of Reis Magos and Porto Novo forts.
- Parish councils — Parish where the church was occupied in November 1887 and a soldier and four rioters were killed.
- Dragon tree (Dracaena draco) — Site of a surviving dragon tree.
- Cory’s shearwater (Puffinus kuhli) — Home parish of shearwater hunters.
- Caires — Parish where the surname is common.
- Arvoredo — Parish containing Arvoredo.
- Parishes — Parish created about 1440.
- Figueiroa de Albuquerque (Luís) — Where he died in 1904.
- Militia — Seat of a capitania-mor.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Transferred from Funchal to Santa Cruz in 1835.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Parish that sought to leave Santa Cruz; part of Funchal in 1834.
- Hay — Supplies hay to Funchal.
- National Scout Corps — Parish where two scout patrols were formed.
- Mills — Said to be where the first mill in Madeira was built.
- Moinhos — Parish containing the locality.
- Alcaides — Had its own alcaide while part of Funchal municipality.
- Machico (captaincy) — Parish partly excluded from the captaincy.
- Câmara de Lobos (municipality) — One of the former lugares of Madeira.
- Facho (peak) — Parish containing Pico do Telégrafo.
- Peso — Where the peso equals 50 kg.
- Occupation of Madeira by the Miguelite troops — Road where Valdês met the wounded Schwalback.
- Judicial organisation — Julgado of the Santa Cruz comarca.
- Our Lady of the Snows (chapel) — Limit of Mealheiro's sesmaria.
- Viana — Place where Afonso de Viana settled around 1500.
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2Chronology
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The parishes of Ribeira Brava and Caniço were reportedly created.
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Álvaro de Ornelas founded the entailed estate at Quinta, Caniço.
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Álvaro de Ornelas instituted an entailed estate in Caniço.
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Afonso de Viana settled in Caniço, founding the Viana family in Madeira.
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Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos founded the morgado and chapel of Nossa Senhora da Consolação at the Quinta, Caniço.
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Francisco Morais de Aguiar founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Salvação at Moinhos, Caniço.
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The parish of Camacha was created and separated from Caniço, with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel, being definitively constituted in 1680.
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Morgado Agostinho António de Ornelas, exiled by the governor, died at his manor in Caniço.
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The parish churches of Santo António, Caniço and Estreito da Calheta were built, bearing dated inscriptions of 1783, 1789 and 1791.
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A Miguelist expedition under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos landed at Machico and occupied Madeira, proclaiming absolutism; Governor Valdez and liberal leaders took refuge aboard the British frigate Alligator.
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A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
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Patrício Malheiro de Melo died in Caniço.
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The 'Parreca' riots against the parish councils (juntas de paróquia) spread terror across Madeira in 1887–1888, and troops were sent to restore order. At Arco da Calheta armed force was used, and on 22 November 1887 rioters occupied Caniço church, where troops fired and killed four people and a soldier also died.
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Luís Figueiroa de Albuquerque died at Caniço.
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The Junta Geral built the quay and landing stage at Ponta da Oliveira, Caniço.