As we have seen in earlier posts:
Jacinto Antonio Amorim & Placidina Maria Nazareth had at least 9 children:
1. João Amorim
2. Maria Nazareth
3. Adelina Nazareth
4. Firmino Amorim aka Danga
5. Joaquim Amorim (died when only 2 years old)
6. Aspasia Nazareth (accidentally electrocuted)
7. Emília Maria Nazareth aka Tia Nenê (1889)
8. Fernando Antonio Amorim (1895)
9. Virgílio Amorim
Emília Maria Nazareth had two daughters from different men
1. Catarina Nazareth
2. Virgilina Nazareth aka Chica
Catarina, not yet 17, married Domingos Martins (22) on 12 January 1925, in Ourinhos. born in in 1903 in Ribeirão Preto-SP; his father Christovam Martins and mother Rosalia Lopes were both from Málaga, Spain. Catarina & Domingos Martins had 5 children:
1. José Martins (23rd July 1926)
2. Nair Martins
3. Francisca Martins
4. Nadir Martins (19 July 1937 + 29 July 2009)
5. João Martins (1939) adopted by Virgilio Amorim and renamed João Amorim
Zé was raised by his grandmother Emília (Tia Nenê). After Catarina gave birth to Nair, in 1929, Zé was weaned and given to Emília, who lived with Chica, her youngest daughter. In 1932, Chica married a Black ex-soldier called Gilberto, they used to call 'Geriberto'. As Fernando Amorim moved to Marília with his family, Chica, her new husband Gilberto, her mother Emília and grandson Zé Martins went to work at a coffee plantation in Ribeirão Claro-PR, just across Paranapanema River.