Birth Name: Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Date of Birth: August 20, 1984
Ethnicity:
*Portuguese, Italian, French (father)
*Portuguese, German, English, possibly Irish (mother)
Carminho is a Portuguese popular fado singer. She was born in Lisbon, Portugal, to Maria Teresa da Câmara de Siqueira Archer de Carvalho and Nuno Maria Bello Rebelo de Andrade. Her brother is Francisco Andrade.
Her paternal grandmother was Constança Maria Ravara Belo. She had Portuguese ancestry.
Her paternal grandfather was Inácio Maria Vecchi Rebelo de Andrade. He had Portuguese, Italian, and French ancestry. His ancestors Felice (Félix) Vecchi (born c. 1820) and Claude de La Roquette (born in 1619) hailed from Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and Paris, France, respectively.
Her maternal grandmother was Maria Teresa do Sagrado Coração de Figueiredo Cabral da Câmara de Siqueira. She had Portuguese ancestry.
Her maternal grandfather was Nuno Alexandre Cabral Archer de Carvalho. He had Portuguese, German, Irish, Dutch, and English ancestry. His ancestor Marcos António Archer was born in 1721 to Diogo Archer (who was from Kilkenny, Ireland) and Maria Sofia Moring Whittingham. Maria Sofia’s father, Johann Möeringk, was from Gelderland, the Netherlands. Her mother, Doroteia Inácia Whittingham, was born in Portugal to an English father, Henry Whittingham, and a Portuguese-English mother, Doroteia Maynard da Silva. Marcos António’s wife, Norberta Maria Amsinck, had German ancestry through her own father, Willelm Amsinck, who was from Hamburg, Germany.
Carminho’s parents are pictured here
Source: http://geneall.net/pt/nome/438939/carminho/ (Genealogy of Carminho)
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