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José António Freire Sobral (10 June 1840 in
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, São Quintino – 19 April 1905 in
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), was a Portuguese farmer and a large exporter of coffee, cocoa and woods who made his fortune in
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in
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. He was the owner of the Roças Saudade and Santa Maria in the village of Trindade and was a Vocal of the Council of the Province of Portuguese São Tomé e Príncipe and Regedor of the village of Trindade. He was made
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of the Order of Agricultural Merit of
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. He was the son of António Freire, an agricultural employee, and wife Joana Maria, both born in
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, São Quintino, from where he took his surname. He married Mariana Emília de Sousa, without issue. He had however, before his marriage, eight natural children from three different mothers, and was the Godfather of his grandson José de Almada Negreiros. By Leopoldina Amélia de Azevedo, born in
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, he had five children. She lived in
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, where she had four of their children. Since he refused to marry her she ran off back to
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, where she died of childbirth of her fifth child. She was a natural daughter of Manuel de Azevedo Pereira, born in Santarém, who lived in
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, where he had natural daughters by Luzia, an African woman born there. Their oldest natural child was daughter Elvira Freire Sobral (
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,
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in
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,
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, 29 December 1896), who was recognized and raised by her father, married in
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,
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, City of
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, at the Parrish of Conceição, on 30 April 1892 António Lobo de Almada Negreiros and died at childbirth of and with her daughter. She studied in
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, at the Colégio das Religiosas Ursulinas, where ''she won the fame of a skilled drawer''. Her half-brother Joaquim Freire Sobral was also an artist and a painter. They had, beside a daughter, two sons António (b. 1895) and José Sobral de Almada Negreiros.


References

* ''Fotobiografias do Século XX'', Photobiography of Almada Negreiros, Círculo de Leitores. {{DEFAULTSORT:Freire Sobral, Jose Antonio 1840 births 1905 deaths Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe 19th-century Portuguese people People from Lisbon District