Selected Families and Individuals


Francisco do Canto was born about 1640 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Maria Madalena de Bettencourt.

Em tto dos Cantos. S.g. (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Maria Madalena de Bettencourt [Parents] was born about 1641 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Francisco do Canto.


Vital de Bettencourt de Vasconcelos [Parents] was born about 1578 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Violante de Ávila.

Other marriages:
do Canto, Maria

Foi provedor do Reino e Capelas da Ilha Terceira (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Violante de Ávila [Parents] was born about 1580 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Vital de Bettencourt de Vasconcelos.

They had the following children:

  M i Vital Bettencourt was born about 1598 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

Faleceu moço (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)
  M ii Manoel de Bettencourt was born about 1599 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

Faleceu moço (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)
  M iii Francisco de Bettencourt de Vasconcelos
  F iv Maria de Bettencourt
  F v Branca de Bettencourt

Francisco de Bettencourt de Ávila was born about 1555 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Bárbara da Silveira e Vargas.

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Bárbara da Silveira e Vargas was born about 1555 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Francisco de Bettencourt de Ávila.

They had the following children:

  F i Violante de Ávila

Vital de Bettencourt de Vasconcelos [Parents] was born about 1578 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Maria do Canto.

Other marriages:
de Ávila, Violante

Foi provedor do Reino e Capelas da Ilha Terceira (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Maria do Canto [Parents] was born about 1580 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Vital de Bettencourt de Vasconcelos.

They had the following children:

  M i José de Bettencourt
  M ii Vasco do Canto de Vasconcelos was born about 1604 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

Clérigo (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)
  M iii Vital de Bettencourt
  M iv André de Bettencourt was born about 1606 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

Faleceu solteiro (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)
  F v Maria Clara de Bettencourt
  M vi João de Bettencourt was born about 1607 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

Frade de S. Francisco (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)
  F vii Catarina de Bettencourt
  F viii Clara da Silveira
  F ix Úrsula de Bettencourt
  F x Bernarda de Bettencourt
  F xi Apolônia de Bettencourt was born about 1612 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal.

solteira (De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Francisco do Canto de Vasconcelos was born about 1550 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Maria Clara da Silveira.

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Maria Clara da Silveira was born about 1550 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Francisco do Canto de Vasconcelos.

They had the following children:

  F i Maria do Canto

José de Bettencourt [Parents] was born about 1603 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Madalena do Canto.

Madalena do Canto [Parents] was born about 1600 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married José de Bettencourt.


João do Canto was born about 1570 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Maria Pamplona.

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Maria Pamplona was born about 1570 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married João do Canto.

They had the following children:

  F i Madalena do Canto

Feliciano de Bettencourt [Parents] was born about 1597 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Clara da Silveira.

Other marriages:
de Bettencourt, Clara

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Clara da Silveira [Parents] was born about 1609 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Feliciano de Bettencourt.


Francisco Pacheco de Lima was born about 1600 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Maria Clara de Bettencourt.

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Maria Clara de Bettencourt [Parents] was born about 1606 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Francisco Pacheco de Lima.


Antonio de Brum was born about 1605 in Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. He married Catarina de Bettencourt.

(De Noronha, H. H., Nobiliario da Ilha da Madeira (1700) in BGL, 1947, tto Bettencourts)

Catarina de Bettencourt [Parents] was born about 1608 in Angra do Heroísmo, Ilha Terceira dos Açores, Portugal. She married Antonio de Brum.

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