See also
| Husband: | Miguel Osorio DECASTRO (MENDOZA) (1694-1731) | |
| Wife: | Maria NOGUERIA FALCOA ( -1786) | |
| Children: | Ana Maria DECASTRO (MENDOZA) (1724- ) | |
| Francisca DECASTRO (MENDOZA) (1726- ) | ||
| Escolástica DECASTRO (MENDOZA) (1728- ) | ||
| Marriage | May 1722 | San Paulo Brazil1 |
| Name: | Miguel Osorio DECASTRO (MENDOZA)1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Juan (David) DECASTRO Y TORRES (1648?-1712) | |
| Mother: | Anna (Abigail) Maria NAVARRO OROBIO (1655-1704) | |
| Baptism | 1 Mar 1691 (age -4--3 (!)) | St Julian Valladolid, Spain1 |
| Birth | 1694 | Valladolid, Spain |
| Taken by his mother to Amsterdam and circumcised in abt 1696 | ||
| Occupation | Merchant/Trader | |
| Death | 17 Jun 1731 (age 36-37) | Portugal1 |
| Cause: Burnt at the stake Inquistion. The 1999 document de Castro Thesis discusses his life and also provides material on other family members. Document includes 3 items dealing with a Masters Thesis presented in 1999 by Claudeteane de Fatima Braga Rodrigues to the Department of Oriental Languages Faculty of Filosofia, the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was directed by Professor Dr. Anita Novinsky. |
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| Name: | Maria NOGUERIA FALCOA | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Death | 1786 | |
| Name: | Ana Maria DECASTRO (MENDOZA) | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1724 | San Paulo Brazil |
| Name: | Francisca DECASTRO (MENDOZA) | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1726 | San Paulo Brazil |
| Name: | Escolástica DECASTRO (MENDOZA) | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 1728 | San Paulo Brazil |
Three daughters born in Brazil. ,
Known previously as Miguel de Mendonça Valladolid, a merchant, born in Valladolid, Spain.
Arrive in Amsterdam in 1701 age 7 with his mother accompanied wth his siblings Rafael, António, Manuel and Teresa and Josepha, who both died later in Amsterdam.
Placed in the care of his uncle Don Antonio de Mendonça, merchant (ref. Masters Thesis presented in 1999 by Claudeteane de Fatima Braga Rodrigues).
1708 seven years later he left Amsterdam and went to Brussels, where he lived for 6 years. He then, we returned to Portugal via France in 1714.
In ann earlier account in 1999 Claudeteane de Fatima Braga Rodrigues presented material for a Masters Thesis to the Department of Oriental Languages Faculty of Filosofia, Letters and Human Sciences, the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was directed by Professor Dr. Anita Novinsky.
The material was entitled 'Source for the Study of Colonial History: Reading Paleográfica a Process'.
"Born in Valladolid Spain, was taken by his mother to Amsterdam where he was circumcised at age five. His family, accused of Judaism, was arrested by the Inquisition of Lisbon and Spain. Fleeing to Brazil, Miguel de Mendonça Valladolid landed landed in ports of Bahia Brazil in 1717 where he lived with relatives, became an important merchant of horses and slaves. In spite of having baptized Christian, Miguel Mendonça, continued to practice judaísmo. When traveling through the interior of the captaincies, even the most distant of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, he taught his Christian-Jewish prayers to new friends. In São Paulo he married a Christian-old, who tried semsucesso, convert it to Judaism. Accused of practicing Judaism, Miguel Mendonça, was arrested in Sao Paulo and stayed two years and eleven months in jail in Lisbon. In his confession to the inquisitorial table revealed that Brazil had crstãos-comvários new contact who practiced fasts of Queen Esther (Purim), the Tishe-Be-Av, Yom Kippur and Passover; and wearing clean white clothes on Fridays, Saturdays did not work, and did not eat pork and even fish skin. A few days before leaving the auto de fe, Miguel Mendonça confirmed their Judaism, confessing that twenty-eight fasts practiced in prisons, confession than acquitted. Was condemned to the stake in June 1731, leaving in Brazil his descendants1
| 1 | "Maurie Prendergarst " (http://maurie.customer.netspace.net.au/). |