The Munford's in Brazil

    The only mention of the name in the Dictionary of Brazilian Families is this:

"Família estabelecida na Bahia, à qual pertence Eduardo Carlos Munford, Despachante Geral da Alfândega da Bahia [Salvador], em 1881. Residente em Rio Vermelho" which means:

"Family established in Bahia, to which belongs Eduardo Carlos Munford, General Dispatcher of the Customs of Bahia (City of Salvador), in 1881. Resident in Rio Vermelho (Red River)."

Courtesy of Ricardo D. Garcia

"Here in Brazil, I had a friend with the name of ARCHIMEDES CARLOS MUNFORD, he was Captain of the São Paulo  Fire Department. Unhappily he died in 1997 the victim of a disease of the brain, he left many friends. He was here a much loved person and they have named a station of the São Paulo Fire Department in São Paulo City, after him called Munford Station. He was born in Brazil in the city of Limeira inside the Sao Paulo State. I thought you would like to know that also in Brazil it possessed a relative, and that this relative was a very wanted and dear person."

  George Mumford, a successful British merchant, had a long-term liaison with two Brazilian women simultaneously without apparent damage to his social position in the community. 

When British merchant George Mumford died in February 1862, his probate inventory made reference to his long time companion Maria Constanca Ebbe and their eight children, five of whom were being educated in Europe at that moment. The testament written five days before his death states that he had fathered eight illegitimate, all of whom he had formally recognized. In fact, five of them were being educated in Europe at the time of his death. Furthermore, Mumford had fathered a child by another unmarried Brazilian woman, Balbina, and in the will he recognized the child as his own. Mumford's estate included ten slaves, three houses in and around town, and stock in the Bahia & Sao Francisco Railway and Banco de Bahia companies. This would have been enough to establish him amongst the more successful of Bahia's British merchants. Mumford entrusted the custody of all his minor children to his business partner Francis White Mackay and his British wife. George Mumford was buried on 16 February 1862 by Reverend Nicolay at the British Cemetery of Bahia

Courtesy of Louise H Guenther. British Merchants in nineteenth century Brazil: business, culture and identity in Brazil, 1808 - 50.Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies,

    One story of how the Munford’s came to Brazil is related by Adriane Munford as follows “My granny told me that her grandfather was Henrique Munford. He came from France to Brazil where he met a slave named Antônia do Espírito Santo. He got many children with her.  The father of my grandmother was one of his sons. He was named Henrique Álvaro Munford who got married with Maria Antônia Santiago. Henrique Álvaro Munford had many children with different women, so I think there are many Munfords in a Brazil city named "Santo Amaro da Purificação" where that history has began.”
 

   Whilst Eliane Munford reports that her grandfather was born in Salvador, Bahia but the she knows that the family arrived in Brazil from "Guiana Inglesa" (British Guiana 1796-1966).

    MATHEUS REIS DE SOUZA MUNFORD's result are mentioned in Universidade Federal da Bahia.

    This website refers to a book "Arte e técnica" written by Lewis Munford.

    This website on the history of architecture in São Paulo Brazil makes reference to the work Willian Munford - Depois, no ano de 1976, na EMURB - São Paulo, atua no projeto de organização da Praça da Sé.

    This article on Biological Anthropology and Human Evolution makes reference to Munford D.; Zanini M.C. & Neves,W.A. (1995) Human cranial variation in South America: Implications for the settlement of the New World. Brazilian Journal of Genetics, 18:673-688.