Hi Lenora, I have never come across anything that gives information about businesses in the time period that you mention except for the LDS public records. The index will give you the location of all of Domingo's transactions, then you would need to order the films of the individual register(s). However, I have used a book that is in the Rare Book Room of my library and I think that do I recall seeing De Freitas in the listing of persons holding liqueur licences--some of my ancestors made good money from selling rum also--but I'm not positive. I probably will have to go back to that book at some point, although it won't be for a while, but when I do I can check and let you know. It might answer one little question, but I can't promise that it won't raise others. Daphne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenora Anderson" <ldanderson@sbcglobal.net> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 11:10 AM Subject: Carenage tavern? > It has come to the families attention that family lore stated that D. Defreitas had a tavern in Grenada where it was said pirates often stopped and shopped so to speak. At first we assumed it was romantic family stories.. but recently we have cause to believe that it might have been true.. Do any of you have a means of searching businesses in Grenada such as this?? It would have been early to mid 1880's as by the late 1800's they had The Douglaston Plantation..It would fill in the gap possible of the time of their arrival until there plantation days.. Which of COURSE leads to another question,, how did they get their start IF this was their first business...Fresh from Portugal???? > > Are there no end to these puzzles?? Everytime you think you know it all, things like this jump out and you start all over again. > > Lenora... > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > What is a Mailing List? > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html > >