BOBCAMSCPW said that he was researching his antepassados in Madeira by the name of Manuel Gomes Basenga. Manuel Gomes Bazenga did marry a Maria de Freitas in 1861 in the Parish of Santo António, Funchal. The first recorded marriage by that name appears to be in 1753 between an Manuel Gomes Bazenga and an Ana Gomes of Santo António.