Genealogy Projects tagged with cristãos-novos on the Geni Family Tree

Jews of Madeira, Portugal

Madeira ( Ilha da Madeira ) was discovered in 1419 by João Gonçalves Zarco , Tristão Vaz Teixeira , and Bartolomeu Perestrello, three captains in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator . The families of the discoverers began to settle the island about 1420. Later settlers were drawn from the general population of Portugal, together with a dominant class of Genoese merchant families. In the 1...