Farrell family genealogy

According to a Brazilian manuscript of A.D 1613, an Englishman named Barnel and an Irishman named Francis Farrell, who both were refugees in Portugal, settled in Brazil, in the latter part of the 16th century, and there married the daughters of Indian women. Barnel perpetuated his name to a district in that country, and to his descendants there who bear it to this day; but the name of Farrell does not so appear.

In elevated social positions in South Brazil there is a family of O’Leary and another of O’Reilly, both of whom are descended from the ancient Irish noble families of those names in Ireland; but at present we are unable to trace their descent.