The PINTO Family and (OBBO) Our Benito Betty Organisation!

Hazel's post 

SEPT 6 2024 Friday 

Today is the date my Dad was born in BRITISH Poona - under the aegis of the New Ruling Class The British Crown.

Until 1857 or so it was Shah Badhur the Moghul Emperor.. with his throne in Delhi - Yes the Empire that never dies is in fact INDIA Ya Ha Ha Ha MAHA Rajah and other rulers over their various territories. For 1000 years WARRIORS on Elephants and Horseback..fought for what they wanted needed and clung to,Yes all over the globe they did and India had some great ones- Yes of course, they always captured some beautiful Princess or slave girl from someplace else to be "The Queen" ( Book of Esther and Song of Solomon in the Holy Bible) All women, mistresses concubines and minor wives of the GREAT Ruler had to follow the rules of the Harem.

The Taj Mahal was built by the distraught Ruler whose Favorite wife died too young. It is an example of a Magnificent Tomb. None other than Princess Diana (God rest her soul in her Fathers Home as we remember this week of her great Grand Funeral UK 1997) same time as Mother Teresa Sept 5-12.. Calcutta. None other than Princess Di went to the Taj Mahal to mkae sure the Whole World of Global Greats knew the "dream romance" was over between her and Future (Now Present) King of the British Commonwealth and Communications Beneficiaries BCCB.. Reuters, Cable and Wireless Tik Tok BBC NBC CBC you name it. MEDIA MOGHULS rule "the Waves" once enjoyed by British SERFS and SURF Riders. WAVES and WAVES of massess of persons have gone Hither Yon and Yonder..Banks and Braes still has the sun shine on
Loch Lomond..! There the Poet Lyricist and his "true love" will ever meet again on the Bonny Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond for love never ends..and it carries on generation afer generation as does the Zanzibar Goan Music Food Fun Frolic and Foreverness..

I am living proof of this Check the Photo section kindly put togther by Benito and KPZanzibar -to go with my many 'articles'.

No one thought much of the POONA PINTO family other than its members who originally hailed from POVORIM GOA where my Grandpa lies in peace in Nestra de Socorro Perpetual Church not far from where he was born. His Dad died when he was just two years old and my Great Grandmother widowed at 20 Maria Especiosa did her part, so decades later she insisted her only son, Agostino Antonio build her a home back in Goa.

A A PINTO had made a great for himself Latin Scholar and proficient in Poertuguese and English and a home for his Wife maria Eufregenia and 8 children (5 Sons) So he did. There is a lovely Professional Phto taken of the whole family when Amy his middle daughter was married in that Goa House to a neighbor named Matthew Lobo in Poona.

Later daughter Sylvia married Dr E Menezes and had a family of three children in Zanzibar before his son Joseph Liban ( My Dad) joined them in 1928. He was their Uncle Liban until 1938 ten years later and two children later for the Menezes- ! On a visit to meet the sister in law to be - engaged to his youngest brother Jose Luciano Glen Pinto MD- ( was in Mwaza Tanganyika for a time) My Dad met her next door neighbor. Martha Pinto was second of six daughters next in line for marriage.! So with a little persuaion, Liban aged 42 thought why Not ?

Martha Like all starry eyed young women 23 years old had hoped her Prince Charming would come from closer to home so she would not have to leave her parents as do most if not all India born Women.

It was only her youngest of six sisters that enjoyed that Favor from God. Yvette married Jerome da Silva they lived in Karachi till after my grandparents died then moved to Toronto where Yvette now lives with her vast family. Her Brother Peter Pinto married Jerome's sister and they too moved to Canada. That da Silva Pinto story goes on as does my Pinto Pinto in British Columbia.

The First week in September 19 67 after a week in the East..( of Canada) Jose Libano and Martha Eslinda began their New Life in Richmond BC and lived happily ever after -and now in peace with Desmoind their son close by..

The First week in September 1997 Our Hazel Bosco family moved to the place Our grandchildren - can visit the bonesand stones that remind them of the fact that Immigrants bring their histories with them as well as viruses, vices Virtues, assets, capabilities and liablities.

Hey Presto, within 50 years after we did indeed do as Beatles told us to we just did indeed "IMAGINE! " or as Freddy Mercury and QUEEN insisted "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS my friends" we are what we are part of the Global Goans. Yet I always give ELVIS the last word.. so many to choose from..Blue Hawaii Jailhouse Rock.. that Master of Song ...I never tire of his story but all I can do is sing along with him yes-
"then, I Believe"