STORIES OF OUR FAMILIES
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.
Descendants of
Alfred Sheppard and Virginia de Freitas
THE SHEPPARD FAMILY - Trinidad circa 1928
Back standing: l/r: Joseph Alfred (Boysie), Mary Marjorie (Madge),
Charles Albert (Bertie), John Herbert
Middle seated: l/r George Havelock, Ida Amelia, Charles Sebastian, (father), Elsie Mabel née Gomez (mother) with baby Arthur Vincent, Jessie Mabel with Edith Florence (Flo), Robert Louis
Front seated: Audrey Ethel, Andrew Desmond (my father), and Sybil Elsie
THE MENDEZ FAMILY - Trinidad 1942
Back: l/r Frederick Herbert (Freddie), Malcolm Arthur, Oswald (Osy), Leonard Alfred,
Front: l/r: Olga, Oswald Antonio (father), Amalia Elizabeth néeSheppard (mother),
Sheppard Family Archive
TODAY'S MATRIARCHS - FIRST COUSINS
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On Sunday 11 September 2016 in the grounds of St. Ann's Church of Scotland where their forefathers were founding members
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Jessie Amalia Mendes Rooks (left)
(pictured in the Mendes family photo seated far right) and
(pictured in the Sheppard family photo seated far right)
(Photo credit: Sybil's daughter Jennifer MacLean.)
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the Sheppard, Gomez and Mendes families.