"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED H. MENDES 1897-1991":
"My mother's people moved to Grenada, a smaller island distant two or three days' sail to the north. My father's folk remained in Trinidad. Francisco, my grandfather, was now a grown man and in 1868 had mariied the daughter of a family called d'Andrade. I never knew her for she had died before I was born . . . .

. . . . His (grandfather) store - he called himself a provision merchant - faced the Almond Walk, a green verge which, in turn, extended down the middle of the short, broad street (it is now called Broadway) to within a few hundred feet of the sea front . . . .

. . . . My grandfather died around 1912 at the age of sixty-four, too young altogether for the longevity genes that he must have donated to his children . . . .

. . . . My grandfather had two brothers, Antonio and João, both older than he . . . .

"THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED H. MENDES 1897-1991":
Family chart. Birth and death.