mother: Anna Luiza de Jezus

b.: Saint Gonçalo of the Black River Village [Arraial de São Gonçalo do Rio Preto], MG, Brazil, ±Feb/1811.

bap.: Saint Gonçalo of the Black River Village [Arraial de São Gonçalo do Rio Preto], MG, Brazil, 17th/Feb/1811.

d.: Happy Stay Town [Vila de Pouso Alegre], Sapucahy County [Comarca de Sapucahy], MG, Brazil, 27th/Sep/1845, with solemn testament, dated of the Happy Stay Town [Vila de Pouso Alegre], Sapucahy County [Comarca de Sapucahy], MG, Brazil, on 23rd/Sep/1845, about 34 1/2 years old, surprehended by a bad illness when comming from Sorocaba, SP, Brazil, where he had gone to bying a "troop" [tropa] of mules.

bur.: Probably, in the Happy Stay Town [Vila de Pouso Alegre], Sapucahy County [Comarca de Sapucahy], MG, Brazil, 27th/Sep/1845 [?].

m.: Village of Peçanha [Arraial de Peçanha], MG, Brazil, ±1842.

m.w.: Rosa Michaela de Jesus (Vilella) (n. Peçanha [?], MG, Brazil, ±1820; bap. Peçanha [?], MG, Brazil, ±1820; d. Peçanha, MG, Brazil, > 1845), daughter of ? and of Francisca Vilella.

education/formation: He would have the "First Letters" ["Primeiras Letras"].

profession/activities: He was a businessman in Serro, MG, Brazil, and, when he died, had a partnership with Francisco Affonço Caldeira, this one a dweller in the city of Serro, MG, Brazil, in the business of beasts o burden. Francisco Affonço Caldeira was also his will executor and first inventory administrator, soon substituted by the father of Francisco José, Bernardo José Souto, by explicit will in the testament.

religion/brotherhoods: He was roman apostolic catholic. He was probably a "brother by devotion" ["irmão de devoção"] of the Brotherhood of The Most Holy Sacrament [Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento], of Serro, MG, Brazil, having being elected Brother of Table [Irmão de Mesa] for the exercise 1841/1842, and was again elected, now as Clerk [Escrivão] of the same, for the exercise 1844/1845.

slaves: THe had many slaves, having willed one of them to the daughter Francisca Rosa Souto.

diverse: All the assets of Francisco José had been transfered to the father, Bernardo José Souto, including some properties in the Village of Peçanha [Arraial de Peçanha], MG, Brazil.

residence: He resided in the city of Serro, MG, Brazil.

children: From Rosa Michaela de Jesus (Vilella) (2): Francisca Rosa Souto, and Romualda [Rosa?] Souto.