Senhores de Engenho, XIX century pics (Northeast Brazil)

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These people were the sugar plantation owners, the Senhores de Engenho (the descendants of the early settlers of Northeast Brazil, who established themselves in the rural parts of coastal Northeast, producing sugar and occupying the land).

A collection of rare and valuable pics from the XIX pics covering some of these people (they are mainly from Pernambuco and neighbouring states in Northeast Brazil)

The names under the photos are not the names of the peoples depicted but of the photographers (the names of the peoples depicted were almost always of luso-brazilian origins)

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A famous Brazilian statesman, Joaquim Nabuco (full name: Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim_Nabuco

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Famous Brazilians with ancestry from these people:

Cazuza, the musician (on his paternal side):



Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, writer and historian:



Gilberto Freyre, most famous Brazilian sociologist, and one of the most acclaimed interpreters of Brazil:



José Lins do Rego, writer



Ariano Suassuna, playwrighter

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One of the Senhores de Engenho families, the Souza Leão:

Augusto de Souza Leão, he was born in the Engenho Caraúna, in Jaboatão, state of Pernambuco:



Ignacio Joaquim de Souza Leão, Senhor do Engenho Pimentel:



José de Souza Leão:



Domingos de Souza Leão:



Domingos Francisco de Souza Leão:



Cícero Braga de Souza Leão, from Engenho Floresta Jaboatão



Antonio de Souza Leão, from Engenho Morenos:




A descendant of the Souza Leão, the writer João Cabral de Melo Neto:

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A few more with a couple more of famous family names of Senhores de Engenho:

Francisco Xavier Paes Barreto, politician of the XIX century, from Pesqueiras, interior of Pernambuco (Paes Barreto is a family name associated with the first settlers of Pernambuco):



Lourenço de Sá e Albuquerque, politician of the XIX century (the first Albuquerque in Pernambuco was the wife of Duarte Coelho Pereira, who was the very first Chief settler of Pernambuco, her name was Brites de Albuquerque, she came with her brother Jerônimo de Albuquerque, who also left many descendants, she was the niece of Afonso de Albuquerque, who conquered Goa and Malaca; http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brites_de_Albuquerque):




His brother, Antonio Coelho de Sá e Albuquerque, politician in the XIX century (born in Muribeca):



Manoel de Barros Wanderley (the first "Wanderley" was a Gaspar von der Ley who settled in Pernambuco in the XVII century, the name was changed to Wanderley, and his descendants became part of the local luso-brazilian Engenho rural aristocracy of landowners; Wanderley became a name associated with people from Pernambuco and neighbouring states where their descendants settled):



Antonio Cesar Marinho Falcão (the Marinho Falcão surname is also associated with the Senhores de Engenho, tracing back to the first settlers of Pernambuco):



Sebastião Antonio Accioly Lins (both family names are associated with the Senhores de Engenho of Northeast Brazil, Accioly comes from a Madeiran settler from the early period of colonization; Lins is also associated with the colonial era and the Senhores de Engenho):

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^ Two famous Accioly:

The current governor of Pernambuco (former Minister of State and deputy), Eduardo Accioly Campos:



Alexandre Accioly (he became famous for making an over U$ 100 million fortune before turning 40):

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A couple of more pics from Pernambuco:

João Joaquim de Albuquerque Mello:



Maria dos Anjos Magarinos de Souza Leão:



Belmiro Silveira Lins:



Manuel Joaquim Carneiro da Cunha (from Engenho Monjope in Pernambuco):



Bahia was also a place where sugar cane plantations flourished, a few Senhores de Engenho from Bahia (I have not posted any from there so far but from the more sugar cane plantation traditional areas of Pernambuco and its neighbouring states):

Cícero Dantas Martins (one of the most important landowners of XIX century Brazil), http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%AD...antas_Martins:



Antonio da Costa Pinto, from Engenho of Bom Jardim:

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A famous descendant of the Senhores de Engenho, the painter Cícero Dias (from Pernambuco), he was himself born in an Engenho:





His illustrations of the Engenhos have been widely used and published by various authors:

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João Cabral de Melo Neto, one of the greatest Brazilian writers:

João Cabral de Melo Neto (9 January 1920 – 9 October 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time and was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize, the greatest prize in Portuguese language and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Melo Neto was born in Recife, Pernambuco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A...l_de_Melo_Neto

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A few historical Engenhos, plantations from where those families sprung:

Engenho Gaipió in Ipojuca, Pernambuco (it belonged to the Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, one of the oldest and most traditional families from the Northeast)



Engenho Freguesia in Candeias, Bahia (its origins are traced to a sesmaria donation - land donation - to Sebastião Álvares in 1560)



Engenho Massangana in Cabo, also in Pernambuco (Joaquim Nabuco, a Brazilian statesman from the XIX century, was baptised in the Chapel of the Engenho, and spent his childhood there);



Engenho Monjope in Igarassu, Pernambuco (its remote origins are traced back to the XVI century)



Engenho Contendas:



Engenho Uruaé in Pernambuco, typical sugar cane fazenda from Pernambuco (it was built in the XVII century: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engenho_Urua%C3%A9)



Engenho depicted by Frans Post in 1668 (in Pernambuco):



Engenho Moreno (sugar cane plantation in Pernambuco):




Engenho Poço Comprido in Pernambuco (built in 1730):