According to Great Arajo, the village of Almeida, in Portugal, gave the nickname to this family, with the most illustrious houses, which they had left prominent prelates and general valorosos. In Brazil, it consists to have some familiar groups of descent of the Almeidas European. One of them, in particular, descends of the association of the Almeidas and Correias, from there appearing the family Leather strap of Almeida de Pernambuco. The name of Safekeeping Leather strap of Almeida, married Manoel de Barros Lindoso appears in the pernambucana genealogy. They had been owners of the Baet Device, in Mires (Clientele of Una), in the State of Pernambuco, during the first half of century XIX. Of this union Francisca was born Leather strap of Almeida, that in 09/05/1841, married in the chapel of the Baet Device with its cousin of according to degree, Herculano Antonio Jose Marroquim, natural of Boa Vista, Recife, being it son of Antonio Jose Marroquim and Anna Leather strap of Almeida, of where appeared the family Leather strap of Almeida Marroquim.
In all Brazil, of north the south has Almeida, mainly, north-eastern. Possibly they have come of Portugal at different times. It has the ones that had come in the period of the captainships and have the ones that had entered in Brazil in each general government. However, these that had colonized the hinterland already were descendants of Portuguese who came of So Paulo for different points of the interior of Minas Gerais, the Pia, the Paraba, the coast of the Bahia and Pernambuco, Alagoas, of the Cear, Maranho, Par and Rio Grande of the North. The Portuguese weapons and blazon of this family had been obtained no longer Brazil, for services given to the Crown, through the governors of the provinces, for order of the Portuguese empire to its gentlemen, donees and military ex-officio or not, in a similar way as it occurred with the entradistas that left the coast for the interior and the So Paulo bandeirantes, mining and bahian. The Almeidas of the Cear, the Paraba, the Great river of Norte and Pernambuco is of the same trunks, had arrived in port in the Bahia at the same time and appears in century XVIII in Pernambuco, in the formation of the first populations in the Farm of Pan d? Water, in the Great Farm of Belm of the Cabrob and in lands of Santana de New Terra the Parnamirim.