After Macedo’s death, his descendants sold the house to a local from Resende, called Gastão. He then sold it to an engineer, Carlos Bento Freire de Andrade, who lived in Estoril, near Lisbon, who was a director of gold and diamond mines in Angola. It appears that this man had ancestors in a little village near Resende, called S. João de Fontoura, who had been previous owners of the farm.