José Augusto (Porthos) Duque-Estrada Meyer

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Occupation: health services administrator; 1983, Chief of staff of the Institute of Social Assistance for the State of Rio de Janeiro (laser).

Birth:
Date not confirmed. Suggested in "Diário Oficial da União", p. 135, sec 1.

Name:
If this is the correct man, he appears to have dropped the Meyer; signed a letter to the editor Jose August C. Duque Estrada.

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Occupation: federal port inspector; banker, Banco do Brasil; played with Fluminense Football Club, 1906.

Died:
Commemorative mass - 30 days after death -for Porthos Duque-Estrada Meyer, 4 Oct 1934, O Paiz, p. 7; Gazeta de Noticias, p. 8.

Porthos married Mathilde Teixeira (Jose) Raposo about 29 Apr 1912 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mathilde (daughter of Jose Teixeira Raposo and Rosa Adelina Celestino) was born on 02 Apr 1889 in Brazil; was christened on 07 May 1889 in Nossa Senhora da Luz da Catedral, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil; died about 14 Nov 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She is sister-in-law of Sr. Oldemar Murtinho, directer de secoao do Ministerio da Agricultura (1912).

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Married:
Marriage noted in A Noite, 29 Apr 1912, p. 2.

Augusto married Elvira Clarice (Hypatios) Rodocanachi. Elvira (daughter of Hypatios (Michael) Rodocanachi and Anna Clarisse (João) Midosi) was born in 1856 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; died about Nov 1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; was buried on 03 Nov 1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Banns: Augusto Paulo Duque-Estrada Meyer and Elisa Clarisse Midosi Rodocanachi, published O Apostolo [Rio de Janeiro], 14 Aug 1885, p 3.

Jose married Rosa Adelina Celestino. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Catsiyannis says he was in London before 1838 and emigrated to Brazil around 1843-44. (Christopher Long)

3 Mar 1836: Hypatios M. Rodocanachi, 16, single, born Chios, arrived Syros 1820, student, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the town hall, Ermoupolis, Syros.

Apparently trading in Rio de Janeiro under the name of João Baptista Rodocanachi & Co., 1856-1890.

Almanak Administrativo, Mercantil e Industrial do Rio de Janeiro, 1881, p 182, under rubric "accrescimos e alteracoes; sobrevindos durante a impressao" [changes that arose during printing], cited on p. 88: João Baptista Rodocanachi, Observatorio Astronomico (68). Apparently, he was omitted from the listing under names beginning with João. His son João Ernesto was employed there.

Often introduced in shipping news items in the 1860s, Diário do Rio de Janeiro, as 'o grego' [the Greek]. By 1870 he worked with the company Franghiadi & Rodocanachi.

Hypatios married Anna Clarisse (João) Midosi. Anna died after 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]