Maria da Conceição Infante de Lacerda Pereira de Eça Custance O'Neill (

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, 19 November 1873 – 23 March 1932) was a Portuguese writer, poet, journalist, and

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of Irish descent.

Family

Maria O'Neill was the daughter of Carlos Tomás O'Neill (Lisbon, Encarnação, 6 December 1846 – ?) and wife (m. 1873) Maria Carlota Pereira de Eça Infante de Lacerda (Lisbon, 15 July 1852 – Lisbon, 1921), daughter of José António Pereira de Eça and wife Maria da Conceição Infante de Lacerda, and paternal granddaughter of Carlos Torlades O'Neill (30 April 1820 (

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Lisbon, São Paulo, 13 May 1822) – ?) and wife (m. Lisbon, Encarnação, 4 November 1845) Adelaide Carolina Custance (Lisbon, Santiago, 15 September 1821 – ?), daughter of Thomas Parsons Custance, an English

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(married secondly to his aunt Ludovina Cecília O'Neill), and first wife Antónia Eugénia Barbosa de Brito. She had a younger brother Carlos Torlades O'Neill (Lisbon, 13 December 1874 – ?),

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in Lisbon, where he lived single, Company Administrator, Member of the Administration Council of the Companhia de Seguros Previdente, married to Laura Moreira, without issue, and two aunts, Adelaide O'Neill (? – termo of

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, her Quinta dos Bonecos, 14 November 1865), unmarried and without issue, and Ethelinda O'Neill, unmarried and without issue. She was a great-granddaughter of

José Maria O'Neill José Maria O'Neill (Setúbal, São Sebastião or Santa Maria da Graça, 14 April 1788 - ?), was the titular head of a branch of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century. Life He was the first-born so ...

, the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in

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since the 18th century, and wife Ludovina de Jesus Alves Solano.

Career

O'Neill was a writer, poet and journalist. She was also a spiritualist, member of the Superior Deliberative Council of the ''Federação Espírita Portuguesa'' and member of the Editorial Office of the magazine ''Espiritismo''. She died on the high seas, on the Atlantic Ocean, on board of the ''General Osório'', travelling from

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back to Portugal after giving one of her Spiritualist Conferences.

Marriage and issue

She married in Lisbon in 1890 António de Bulhões (c. 1870 – ?), a civil servant, and had four children:''Raízes e Memórias'', Associação Portuguesa de Genealogia, Lisboa, N.º 5, pg. 97 * Maria Antónia Pereira de Eça O'Neill de Bulhões, married firstly to an English

, divorced, without issue, and married secondly to Francisco de Sousa, without issue * Luís Pereira de Eça O'Neill de Bulhões, married to French Madeleine Chayac, without issue * José António Pereira de Eça O'Neill de Bulhões (Lisbon, c. 1890 – Lisbon), a bank worker, and wife Maria da Glória Vahia de Barros de Castro (17 March 1905 – aft. October 1989), daughter of Dr. Alberto de Barros e Castro,

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(whose father declined the title of

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of Soares de Castro), and wife (m. 1904) Maria da Graça de Sousa Vahia (9 December 1882 – ?), and had two children: ** Maria Amélia Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões, a Nun ** Alexandre Manuel Vahia de Castro O'Neill de Bulhões (Lisbon, 19 December 1924 – Lisbon, 21 August 1986), writer and poet * Maria Francisca Pereira de Eça O'Neill de Bulhões, unmarried and without issue

References and notes

External links

Maria da Conceição Infante de Lacerda Pereira de Eça Custance O'Neill's Genealogy in a Portuguese Genealogical site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oneill, Maria 1873 births 1932 deaths People from Lisbon Connachta O'Neill dynasty Portuguese nobility Portuguese people of British descent Portuguese people of Irish descent Portuguese women poets Portuguese women writers

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