Francisco Ferreira de Mesquita

• Genealogia pelo professor Paulo Valadares

-https://ihggcampinas.org/2019/11/04/julio-mesquita-ascendencia-e-de...

Francisco Ferreira de Mesquita

(Vila Real, 1838 - Itapira, 1898),

foi comerciante em Campinas, possuindo uma “casa de comissões, depósito de sal, açúcar, etc”, na rua General Osório. Participou ativamente da vida social campineira, pois pertenceu à Loja Maçônica “Independência”, e, foi um dos fundadores da Beneficência Portuguesa local. Teve também outros negócios, foi até fazendeiro de café em Jacutinga. Francisco Mesquita chegou a retornar com a família para Relvas. Na viagem de retorno o navio naufragou na costa da Bahia, onde teve que esperar os filhos restabelecerem a saúde, para prosseguir viagem. Os Mesquitas viveram três anos em Portugal, voltando depois a Campinas. Do casal encontramos sete filhos: Adelaide, casada com Antonio Júlio Nogueira da Silva; Augusto César, o “Néné”, casado com .Antonieta Pimenta Mesquita; Maria Preciosa, a “Mariquinhas”, casada com o Dr. Pedro Augusto Pereira da Cunha; Francisco, o “Chiquinho”; Ermelinda, a “Biloca”, casada com o poeta e jurista Vicente de Carvalho2; Constantino, o “Tantico” e Júlio César Ferreira de Mesquita, que blasonou ao nome e também à família, fundador da dinastia jornalística.

The Mesquita family is one of the most important Brazilian families. They are, since a hundred years ago, a dynasty of journalists who publish the major Brazilian newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo”. One can say they are liberals in the British style. During the Monarchy, they were Republicans and Abolitionists. Later they were against Fascism and Communism. Today they are in favor of a free economy. The first one was Julio César Ferreira Mesquita (1862-1927), the son of Portuguese immigrants who graduated from Law school and married into an aristocratic coffee planters family from São Paulo. He is also founder of the “O Estado de São Paulo”. His son Julio de Mesquita Filho (1892-1969) succeeded him, and thanks to his strong character and intellect he managed to bring respectability and credibility to the newspaper. His son, also bearing the same name, Julio de Mesquita Neto (1922-1996) kept the family tradition. As always happens, a successful dynasty produces envy and admiration. Political enemies attacked them using a weapon that was once successful, anti-semitism. Even knowing they were conservative Catholics, the detractors usually refer to a probable New-Christian origin of the Mesquita family. They point to Vila-Real in Tras-Os-Montes, Portugal, a small town where many New Christians and Judaizers lived due to its remote location from Lisbon and the Inquisition. There were Conversos using Mesquita as family name while dwelling in Vila-Real. Another indicative would be the frequent use of biblical names among the girls of the family (an uncommon practice amongst the Brazilian Catholics). In the quest to tell this story we gathered all available documentation and sketched a genealogy of the descendents of Julio Cesar Ferreira Mesquita, while using the family history as background and telling the relationship of this family with the Jews. In this essay, we describe not only a Brazilian genealogy of publishers and journalists but also the story of a family that gathers all typical characteristics of a Portuguese Brazilian family with old aristocratic background and also recent immigrants, all of Portuguese origin. We could have written this article in one of several ways. Our objective was to record the the Jewish influence in the Brazilian life. We could have looked at the Mesquita family through their aristocratic side. It was just a matter of choice.

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