

The company was founded in 1820 by my ancestor Severino Betancort being afterwards inherited from parents to children until 1980, the year in which my father transferred it to me under the name Severino Brown Betancort. His worked as a shipbuilder on the African Western Coast…

ROOTS AND ORIGINS OF THE FAMILY OF FISHERMAN SEVERINO BETANCOURT MORENO. 
According to the notarial document of the well-known notary Sr. Don
ALFONSO ZAPATA ZAPATA, the origins of Betancourt go back to ancient Normandy; settlement of Gauls and Vikings which had a great knowledge in navigation and fishing. The family name Betancourt is derived from Jean de Betheencourt, colonizer of the Canary Islands in the 15th century (between 1402 and 1405), native of Normandy (1360-1422). The roots of the name Moreno go back to the surname Murano which has its origins in the first settlements of jewish merchants in Venice in 1291. The commerce of crystal form Murano in Venice has a world-wide reputation.