When Manoel Escudero Fernandes was born on 3 April 1893, in São Fidélis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, his father, Manoel Pereira Fernandes, was 21 and his mother, Antonina Escudero, was 20. He married Hermínia Calvi Saraiva on 19 March 1919, in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 16 September 1971, in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, at the age of 78.