: In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal #IndiaNEWS Some years ago, I walked through narrow streets in Mazagon, Mumbai, looking for the site of

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In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal #IndiaNEWS
Some years ago, I walked through narrow streets in Mazagon, Mumbai, looking for the site of the old Gloria Church. It was originally the personal chapel in the estate of my ancestor, Sir Miguel de Lima e Souza, who lived there from around 1750 to 1806. This search was part of a larger quest to trace Sir Miguel’s roots back to the earliest Portuguese Fazendar, or estate owner, Antonio Pessoa in 1547. That quest floundered in the historically murky era between the conquest of the Portuguese Norte India Province by the Marathas and the recapture of most of that area by the British in 1775. I never was never able to document fully the family tree prior to Miguel and his father, but I had stumbled upon an intricate web of relations between Miguel’s family and the East India Company at the time the Company was metamorphosing from a faltering trading enterprise to opulent overlord of much of the Indian Subcontinent.Miguel and his brothers seem to have played a significant part in this hinge period: Antonio based in Madras (Chennai), Thomas in Calcutta (Kolkata) and Manoel in the Far East. Miguel’s roleMiguel’s role is well-documented even though his emergence into prominence is something of a...Read more

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