The slavery was abolished in 1870 and Brazil needed people to develop the country. So Augusto Pinchemel emigrated after 1870 from France with his wife Maria Wamierbon (Maria van Mierlo) and his two children Elisa and Ricardo  to the Southern part of Brazil. The parents died during the trip and their daughter was educated by nuns in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She was baptised  in the Sâo Pedro church in 1878 and became a teacher. She married José Severino Rodrigues, but died when her oldest son José Pinchemel Rodrigues was only 8 years in 1903, leaving 3 orphans behind.