----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:00 AM Subject: INDIA Digest, Vol 8, Issue 228 <snip> > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:50:55 +0100 (BST) > From: T CRAMB <[email protected]> > Subject: [INDIA] Bocarro family. > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > For Peter Ferreira- I grew up in Poona and attended the Convent of Jesus > and Mary- two school mates were Bernadette and Elaine Bocarro - were they > any relation to you ???? If so - where are they now ???? regards Thelma > (nee Ferguson) <snip> Hi Thelma, Yes, Bernadette and Elaine, both daughters of George and Marjorie Bocarro, were my second cousins. They form part of my Bocarro Tree of Bombay. Here is what I have on that family: " George Christopher Bocarro, son of Joseph Bocarro and Rose Mary Esperance, was born on May 2nd., 1902. On February 26th., 1927, in Mount Mary's Church, Bandra, George married Marjorie Pereira. George was an architect in the G.I.P. Railway. They lived in "The Anchorage" on Mount Mary's Road, in Bandra, Bombay. George, aged 67, died on July 31st., 1969 and Marjorie, aged 87, on December 28th., 1991; they are both buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, Bandra. George and Marjorie had issue: 1] Bernadette Mary Bocarro, born on September 17th., 1927. In about 1952, she married Roy Cabral. Roy and Berna migrated to England. Berna died about the 1960s, in England. They had issue: 2] Elaine Angela Bocarro, born in Bandra, on October 2nd., 1928; bp. in St. Andrew's church, Bandra, Bombay, on October 20th., 1928. On March 31st., 1953, in Kensington district, London, England, she married Elliot Jacob Fernandes and they lived in Bandra West where they had issue. Elaine died a few years ago and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, Bandra." I never knew about this family living in Poona. Thelma, would you kindly tell me more about their Poona years. Were they boarders or day scholars, in the Convent of Jesus and Mary, there? Best wishes. Peter Ferreira.