To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.

Amalia Sheppard with her husband Edward Oswald Mendes and their children

Charles Sheppard with his wife Elsie Gomez and their children

(My grandparents and their family - Trinidad circa 1928)

First Cousins

Jessie Amalia Mendes Rooks (left)

(pictured in the Mendes family photo seated far right) and

Sybil Elsie Sheppard Gibbon

(pictured in the Sheppard family photo  seated far right)

In the grounds of St. Ann's Church of Scotland on Sunday 11 September, 2016

where Sybil's 95th birthday (on 12 September) was celebrated in a beautiful way. 

(Photo credit:  Sybil's daughter Jennifer MacLean.)

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