Dear members, I need your opinion on this. Researching one family of nineteenth century Velsao, Goa, I discovered through archival documents in Lisbon, that one brother from Velsao travelled to Zanzibar and was likely a table waiter and cook, and most likely illiterate, but later hugely successful. Although there was some reason to treat this information taken from a 1890 source with some scepticism, it did have details for the employer etc. and in the main not really discreditable. I have now discovered through the assistance of the brilliant geneologist Richard Souza, that another brother born in 1829 was ordained as a priest. Was not the priesthood in Goa driven by caste and largely restricted to upper-castes? How do I square this information? Your help would be most appreciated.Selma
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