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Brazão of Barreto's Goa India

In Goa there are approximately 5 houses (few more to be honest)that have been given the Brazão (Coat of Arms) a few that could be named are: Barreto's - Velsao - Pale, Monsignor Francisco ‘Chico’ Monteiro's house - Candolim, Menezes Braganca - Chandor, Costa Frais - Candolim, Mirandas- Loutolim etc.

The ‘Brazão’ (Coat of Arms) and the Tittle of Casa dos Fidalgos ie: House of the Nobility was given/rewarded to the Barreto's by the Portuguese King, Dom Joao VI, for dedicated service by members of this family for three generations. The family contributed towards the development of the village and poor at large. This Brazao is recorded in the book, "Tesouro de nobreza" kept in Lisbon's "Tourro de Tombo". It is fixed at the main entrance of the house and the chapel. The Family are great owners in Salsete and possessors of one of the greatest palacial houses in Salsete and were Knight of the Order of Christ, Fidalgo -Knight of the Royal House by decree.

The family of Barreto's settled in Velsao Pale Salcete PO Cansaulim Goa, under the Mormugao Constituency, West of India.

These mansions are the most exquisite heritage houses in the countryside, having a Portuguese style facade. It has alot of imported chandeliers, painting, porcelain, crystal, period furniture and other antique items.

The House of the Barreto family has two separate buildings which were once upon a time connected through a small corridor. Today the main facade of the building with the Brazão (Coat of Arms) remains with Mr Ivor Antonio Barreto, Deputy Director of Accounts in the Food and Drugs Administration and the behind house has been divided between the first cousins of the Barreto family, in which one half of the building is with Mr Anton Barreto and Mr Orlando Barreto & brothers.

One of the son Mr. Arnald Barreto got married to Mrs Silvia and settled in Margao in South of Goa and had offspring’s of Ian, Kevin and Sandra.

The other son of the house Mr Robustiano Do Rosario Barreto got married to Mrs. Nilda Souza Xavier Barreto and settled in the North of Goa in Siolim with the offsprings being Consolasao - Calangute, Isabelle - Mapusa, Francisco (chiquito)- Mapusa, Savio - Siolim, Alwyn - Kankavli (Bishop of Sindhudurgh), Malini - Utorda and Cipriano - Siolim.

The Ancestral House in Velsao had alot of special visitors, right from the aristocrats / beurocrats to the Royals from Portugal. Royal dances and banquets were hosted at this place.

The front house that belongs to Ivor Antonio Barreto, has been repaired and restored recently. the house has eight rooms and three bathrooms. It has a well inside the house located strangely at the main entrance. The hall has a wooden roof that looks like the inverted hull of sail boat. while the back house has two floors, the top now converted to rooms while the below the mini hall, large hall, dinning room and kitchen. In this time of the mid-eighteenth century, crystal clear the formation of "indigenous aristocracy," perhaps one of the best manifestations of experience between the duality of nobility systems. This aristocracy gathered some local families, mainly Brahmins and chardós, wealthy through property, educated through training in Law, Medicine and Theology, and closely linked to the state apparatus and the rules that govern it.

This is the village where Mons. Tomás de Aquino do Rosario Barreto, Velsao Goa, Monsenhor vigário-geral e vigário capitular de Goa, Cardinal Ivan Gracias and Bishop Alwyn Barreto come from also the statueque home of ex-Judge Blasio Souza.

The Heritage house of the Barretos is built in Indo-Portuguese architecture. The house of Barreto's boast of having Judges, public procecuters, Bishop's and Vicar Generals.

The house has / had prominent people who made a mark in the society, of which these could be traced (recent);

• Mons. Tomás de Aquino do Rosario Barreto, Velsao Goa, Monsenhor vigário-geral e vigário capitular de Goa

• Fr. Alfred Barreto, Priest (Pune Diocese) from Velsao Goa, founder principal of the Vidya Bhavan School, Vidya Bhavan College of Commerce and also served as principal of Ornellas high school and St Vincent's College of Commerce, Principal St.Patrick's High & Higher Secondary School,vice-president of the Women's Hockey Association of Maharashtra.

• Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto, from Velsao / Siolim Goa, First Bishop of Diocese of Sindhudurg (Dioecesis Sindhudurgiensis) in India was created on July 5, 2005, Chairman of Youth Commission in Western Region. Was Dean in the Poona Diocese]

• Robustiano do Rosario Barreto, eminent lawyer and a public prosecutor during Portuguese rule in Goa, later settled in Siolim.

Ask where does the folklore come in? it has its origins. Velsao wanted to have its own Parish Church as it then came under the combined parish of the clutch of villages of Cansaulim, Cuelim, Arrosim, including Velsao and Pale. Velsao Pale was therefore under Cansaulim's Church of St Tome or St. Thomas. Now Velsao wanted its own church and for that it needed land. The legent has it, over 250 years ago, that two spinsters from the Barreto's family, bequeathed their share of the property to what was then the chapel now the church of Our Lady of Assumption. The criterion of that period was that a church had to generate its funds. For that it needed a kind of pre-determined amount of property. And so, it happened that the two Barreto spinters donated their share of the property to the church. Tha balance requirement of land ,was donated by the Sequiera family (morgado)also from Velsao.

This family/house had its family properties engulfing many villages. One of such instance is the house in Sernabatim Colva now with the family of Late Alvarinho Barbosa Barreto was once upon a time 'Casa das Mudas' holiday home of the Barreto's from Velsao with a huge store room for all the coconuts, mangoes and rice storage of all nearby properties. its said that the one of the Barreto's from Velsao settled in the Sernabatim house and extended the house far and wide along with the nearby properties. As the generations went by they had only one daughter and therefore one of the Barbosa's from Cansaulim got transplanted / married and became a gorzavoi, therefore today they are know as 'Barbosa Barreto'.

From once where the family originated from the Hindu 'Prabhu Dessai' family who later adopted the surname Do Rosario Barreto as their surname. This distinguished family descended further to 'do Rosario Barreto', 'Barreto' in the south and those who migrated to the north of Goa, ie Siolim adopted 'Fernandes' to their surname making it 'Fernandes Barreto'.

Velsao - Pale is a village full of history and serenity, from the quiet and wide expanse of beach to the heritage houses lining the road. Its a village that is set apart from many others in Goa.

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