Alfred's Trinidad Descendants

Pictured in the grounds of St. Anns 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.)

First Cousins - Jessie Amalia Mendes Rooks (left)

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

Sybil Elsie Sheppard Gibbon

(pictured in the Sheppard family photo below, seated far right)

Amalia Sheppard with her husband Edward Oswald Mendes and their children

Sheppard Family Archive

MY GRANDPARENTS AND THEIR FAMILY

Charles Sheppard with his wife Elsie Gomez, and their children

Trinidad circa 1928

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