Tasha de Vasconcelos

de Vasconcelos in 2011, photo by Prphotos.com Birth Name: Sandra Tasha da Silveira Pereira Bravo Osrio de Vasconcelos Cochofell Mota e Cunha Place of Birth: Beira, Porgtuguese Mozambique (now Mozambique)

de Vasconcelos in 2011, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Sandra Tasha da Silveira Pereira Bravo Osório de Vasconcelos Cochofell Mota e Cunha

Place of Birth: Beira, Porgtuguese Mozambique (now Mozambique)

Date of Birth: 15 August, 1966

Ethnicity:
*father – Portuguese-Angolan
*mother – English, Scottish, possibly other

Tasha de Vasconcelos is a Mozambican-Canadian model, actress, and humanitarian ambassador. She is the ambassador for the Institut Pasteur, and a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030.

Tasha is the daughter of Jacqueline Marion Hards and Fernando João de Vasconcelos da Mota e Cunha. Her father was born in Angola, and was of Portuguese descent. Her mother is said to have Scottish, as well as English, ancestry. She was raised in Mozambique, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and Canada. Tasha has Portuguese, Canadian, and Mozambican citizenship.

Tasha’s paternal grandfather is named Afonso Guilherme Mota e Cunha. Afonso was born in Fermil, Celorico de Basto, Portugal.

Tasha’s paternal grandmother is Maria Augusta Cochofell/Cochofel da Silveira Pereira Bravo Osório de Vasconcelos (the daughter of Manuel da Silveira de Vasconcelos Pereira Bravo and Maria Delfina Macedo Teixeira Pinto Cochofel). Tasha’s grandmother Maria Augusta was born in São João de Fontoura, Resende, Portugal. Manuel was the son of João da Silveira Pereira Bravo Osório de Vasconcelos Cochofel and Maria de Melo Pinto da Cunha Machado e Abreu.

Tasha’s maternal grandfather likely is Eric James Hards (the son of Cecil Gilles Hards and Vivian Gladys Lake). Eric was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe. Cecil was the son of English-born parents, James Hards, from Ewell, Surrey, and Juliana Jean Paterson, from Westminster, London. Vivian was born in Salem, South Africa, the daughter of James Temlett Lake, whose father was English, and of Sara Elizabeth Butt, whose father was English and whose mother was the daughter of English parents.

Tasha’s maternal grandmother likely is named Iris Sybil Willard. Iris was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Sources: http://www.tashadevasconcelos.com

Genealogy of Tasha de Vasconcelos – http://www,gw.geneanet.org

Genealogy of Tasha’s mother (through her own brother) – http://www.geni.com

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