Born on 2 March 1887, in Santana, Madeira, Portugal, daughter of Antonio Teixeira and Anna Marques Teixeira. She died in 1978, aged approximately 91, in Santana, Madeira, Portugal. She married Manuel Luiz Cardoso on 24 February 1906. They had six children: Manuel Luiz Cardoso Junior (1909), Domingos Luiz Cardoso (1911), Ana Augusta Teixeira (1916), Carolina Augusta Cardoso (1919), Francisco Luiz Cardoso (1922) and Maria da Conceição Cardoso (1928).