Dear Antonio Menezes and other members of Goanet, in Message 4 dated Tue 2 Apr 2019 23:33:05 +0530 on the Subject of Tony Almeida, the Goan Architect, Who died recently in Dar es Salaam aged 98
*I am writing to thank you for enriching my perspectives and dimension of my late friend Tony….He did tell me he had a brother. When he learnt that I was a also a student in St Josephs Convent School DSM ,but a decade later, he was shocked and I sensed that those were dark and gloomy days for him. ..that was when his mother died, so we discussed other matters about what I was doing currently, He was even more shocked, that since about 2008, I discussed matters of local knowledge, disasters and security with high level bureaucrats and official in Tanzania and elsewhere / * *Over the years Tony did not mention, his father name or for that matter about his fathers cousin. So when you wrote * Quote Francisco Almeida, originally of Patnimorod, Chinchinim. Tony's father Francisco was a pioneering business entrepreneur who in partnership with his maternal cousin Nazareto Menezes ( also from Chinchinim of Adv. Laurente Menezes family ) opened a chain of general stores shops called Almeida and Menezes in Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Morogoro and Bagamoyo during the German occupation of Tanganyika ( Deutsch-Ostafrika) before the First World War..End Quote My father Camillo Pantaleao from Quepem joined the British Administration and with a Major Haig established the Headquarters at the fort in Mahenge…nearby was a Swiss Capuchins Mission, My father was allocated the Eastern Province , so my father moved to Mahenge, Ifakara, Morogoro, Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Rufiji . Over the six decades I spent on and off Bagamoyo, I came across four Goans families …Aslemo Costa, .Lobo in the Customs, a friend whose father owned a bar, and a fourth family whose name I have forgotten *So how did I escape the Menezes ……I have a lot of interesting questions…..and probably some answers* *I am hoping to be in Quepem by the 15 of April to get my eyes and knees fixed* *So did you yourself spend time in Dar es Salaam ?* I am hoping to be in Quepem by the 15 of April to get my eyes and knees fixed. Looks as if there is a treat....a refreshed brain talking to you fellows....and one more place to visit Goa Adolfo Mascarenhas In Dar es Salaam
