For those who descend from Manuel Fernandes Ruivo m, around 162...163... Isabel Bettencourt de Sá, it will be interesting to know that there was another Manuel Fernandes Ruivo m. Luzia Dias, and father of Baltasar Fernandes Leão- who married around 1626, Catarina Rocha. >From him (BFL) descended, "por varonia" Teodoro Joâo Baião, tabelião, D. Albertina de Alencastre Baião. and all the Leões from Porto Santo. (According to Cónego Meneses Vaz). So probably this first Manuel Fernandes Ruivo or his wife, Luzia Dias, were connected to the Baiões- The Leão, according to Clode, were an Italian family from Genova, who settled in Madeira around 1472. The first ones were Leão Fernandes and his brothers, "sugar contractors". So, chronologically the first Manuel Fernandes Ruivo from Porto Santo. fits very well. He could be the father of the second Manuel Fernandes Ruivo, the so called Alferes da Cancela (m. to the well known Isabel de Bettencourt e Sá). Ruivo meaning Red-Haired, was certainly an "alcunha falante " of the descriptive type. This first Manuel Fernandes Ruivo could also be a descendant of the Italian family that setlled in Funchal, around 1472. Miguel