Anna Gonsalves Paes de Azevedo was probably born in 1617, to Jerônimo Paes de Azevedo and Izabel Gonsalves Paes of Portugual.

Sylvio de Lyra Rabello was born in the city of Aliança, Pernambuco, on 29 November 1899, to the merchant Heliodoro de Paula Ferreira Rabello and schoolteacher Joaquina Gomes de Lyra.