Sebastião Fernandes da Costa


Sebastião Fernandes da Costa was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
His parents were Manuel da Costa, a small landowner who was remembered by his grandson as carrying his hoe at the end of the day, and wife Clara de Jesus.
He was a Bachelor graduated in Law by the University of Coimbra and became a lawyer. He became the Conservator of the Predial Registration and Mayor of Seia, and also Judge of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sacrament of Seia.
He had three children who were exposed at birth at the wheel of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Seia and registered as children of unknown parents. Their mother was Ana Augusta Pereira, daughter of Tiago Ferrão and wife Maria Pereira, a widow woman weaver at Gouveia precociously blind. Later he and their mother recognized them and they married at Seia, Seia on April 13, 1885. Their children were: