João Maria Ferreira do Amaral

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João Maria Ferreira do Amaral (Lisbon, Alcântara, 4 March 1803 – Macau, 22 August 1849) was the 79th Governor of Macau. He was appointed on 21 April 1846.

Contents 1 Background 2 Career 3 Marriage and issue 4 Sources

[edit] Background

He was the first born son of Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, born in Lisbon, Alcântara, on 3 May 1773, whose male line was de Macedo, a Fidalgo of the Royal Household and a Sergeant of the Portuguese Army and the Portuguese Legion who died frozen at the French Invasion of Russia in the Winter of 1812, and wife, married in Lisbon, Alcântara, on 4 February 1801, Ana Isabel Cirila de Mendonça, and older brother of Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, born in Lisbon, Alcântara, on 15 October 1804, and Francisca Ferreira do Amaral, born in Lisbon, Alcântara, on 10 May 1805, both without further notice.

[edit] Career

A distinguished and valliant Officer of the Portuguese Royal Fleet, who, in 1821, was a Midshipman and started his brilliant military career at the Fleet which, in Brazil, defended the rights of Portugal. In that campaign he lost his right arm. He was amputated without anesthesia and after the procedure he endured he took his own arm, threw it and shout Viva Portugal! (Long live Portugal!).

He was a Captain of Sea and War, Knight-Fidalgo of the Royal Household, etc.

In 1848, being a Parliamentary for Angola, he was appointed Governor of Macau, where he was murdered assassinated by the Chinese residents for unilaterally taxing them against the wishes of the Chinese government.

[edit] Marriage and issue

He married posthumously by proxy through a testamentary disposition in Lisbon, Santa Catarina, on 20 October 1849 Maria Helena de Albuquerque (Funchal, São Pedro, 1817 – Lisbon, 6 June 1909, then widow of António Teixeira Dória, ...th Lord of the Majorat of ... (married in 1836 and by whom she had an only son João Eduardo Teixeira Dória, an Artillery Officer, born in Lisbon, São Paulo, 13 October 1841, who died unmarried and without issue), and later 1st Baroness of Oliveira Lima (Decree of 18 October 1883) (in remuneration of the services of her late third husband the Councilor and Director-General of the Ministry of the Navy and Overseas Manuel Jorge de Oliveira Lima (Porto, Santo Ildefonso, 13 October 1804 – Lisbon, 11 July 1876), without issue), in order to legitimize his only son Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral. She was the seventh of eight children of João Agostinho de Freitas Brito Figueiroa de Albuquerque (Funchal, Santa Maria Maior, 14 June 1793 – London, 27 October 1862), Successor in many Majorats, Colonel of Auxiliary Artillery, 372nd Commander of the Royal Order of Our Lady of the Conception of Vila Viçosa, of Portugal (14 April 1852), and wife Carlota Amália de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, sister of the ...th Lord of the Majorat and 1st Baron of São Pedro.

[edit] Sources

• Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 1985, Tomo II, p. 758 to 761
• GeneAll.net - João Maria Ferreira do Amaral at www.geneall.net João Maria Ferreira do Amaral