Newsletter for alumni
of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 9 March 2019
No. 905
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Dear Friends,
Interesting emails from the Dates and the first oil well
in Trinidad.
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Nigel Boos <nigelboos@gmail.com>
Jan 30 at
3:25 PM
Thanks, Chris.
I think it’s probably
better to use your personal email address.
Keep well.
Nigel
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On Jan 30,
2019, at 10:47 AM,
Juliet
Date <julietchris42@gmail.com> wrote:
Nigel/Don,
Our family email is; julietchris42@gmail.com
My personal email is; chris.date@outlook.com.
Good to receive the info
about Mount Boys- Old & Older
All the best,
Chris
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Kazim Abasali <empowerwithart@gmail.com>
Jan 30 at
1:41 PM
Sweden is a winter wonderland at present.
Those of you living it up
in the sunshine, send us your warmest greetings.
Love....Kaz
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Alan Date
<alandate1@outlook.com>
Jan 30 at
11:49 AM
Don,
You've got the
imagery going:
A weather
report on the Canadian national broadcaster, CBC, done by the highly-regarded
Ian Hanomansing (born T'dad), seconded from his anchoring the CBC's flagship National
TV news program:
"It looks
like there's some sunshine, and more than a lot of rain, but still pleasantly
mild, on the West Coast...the Prairies, well, cold and windy, actually very
cold and windy, but that's the Prairies for you...and Ontario, oh dear, oh
dear, the weather's all cats and dogs, snowy
cats, that is, or as George, Nigel, Kazim, Ladislao, Chris, and Don
would say in Tunapuna, up at the Abbey school, 'Run for yuh life, is sanpatting
and hedging time!' "
Alan
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On Tue, 29
Jan 2019 at 23:26, Alan Date <alandate1@outlook.com> wrote:
Gentlemen of MSB,
I've just now come across
your emails below.
And I'm glad it’s now all
sorted out: that's the email address I have for Chris.
Keep up the good work,
whether on an island sybaritic or in coldest GWN (Great White North, aka
Canada) 😎...blessings!
Alan
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From: Nigel
Boos <nigelboos@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday,
January 29, 2019 11:58 AM
Good enough for me, then.
No need to pursue it further.
Thanks, Don.
Kaz, we need to update the
dB with this info for Chris Date, please.
Nigel
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From: Nigel Boos
Sent: Tuesday,
January 29, 2019 3:14 PM
Hey, Alan.
Do you happen to have a
good, working email for Chris, your brother, please.
We’re updating the MSB Old
Boys database, and I need to add his correct address to the list.
I’d appreciate your help
very much.
Thanks,
Nigel
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From: Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Sent: Tuesday,
January 29, 2019 4:57 PM
Enjoy British Columbia in
that case.
What, no sanpatting or
hedging?
The weather channel
obviously has it all wrong.
Best,
Don
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From: Alan
Date
Sent: Tuesday,
January 29, 2019 8:27 PM
A Cable & Wireless
motorcyclist/telegraph man pulls up to Casa Mitchell, with this cable:
"Storm, what storm?
STOP That is for the Ontario campesinos, se~nor (Toronto ahora: -8 Celsius)
STOP No es aqui STOP Aqui es beautiful & mild, if wet, BC (British
Columbia: Victoria, BC ahora: 8 celsius) STOP may ONT get thru this sanpatting,
this hedging in bouganviliea STOP hasta luego! "
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From: Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com>
Sent: Tuesday,
January 29, 2019 4:06 PM
Hi, Alan,
We are looking at the
great storm presently enveloping you with increasing concern.
Hello, George,
At an appropriate time, at
your convenience, below you will find the contact details for our colleague,
Alan Date, for incorporation in the database.
Best,
Don
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On Jan 29, 2019, at 2:30 PM, Don
Mitchell <idmitch@anguillanet.com> wrote:
Hello, Nigel and Alan,
I find that I changed
Chris’ email address in my email address book some time ago to
That seems to work
Best,
Don
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From: Nigel Boos
<nigelboos@gmail.com>
Subject: Nigel
Darwent's email address
Date: January
28, 2019 at 11:30:31 AM EST
Wow!
I’m going to
have to make many corrections to get my narrative straight.
Hearing about
Walter Darwent’s background from his descendant throws my mini-history into the
bush.
However, I
find it strange that the trip to the site of the Aripero #1 well in around
1972, had been advertised by an old Texaco geologist and I believe I’d reported
his story to the best of my ability.
There’s
nothing better than to get the story from the horse’s mouth or to get as close
as possible to the real source.
I’m an amateur
genealogist, and I’d actually heard that story about the “Damant” name, from
someone else, a young woman, I believe, but she referred to the original name
as “Damnant”.
I thought that
you’d like to see what I'd found, so I’m sending this on for your enjoyment and
edification, with no claim whatever that any of this is either true or false.
Enjoy!
As I went
through the family tree, it struck me that the Newbolds (see below) and their
descendants might also have an interest in this, so I’m forwarding the email
also to my Date cousins and one Sellier cousin (I have only one email address
for them), since their mothers were both Newbolds as well.
Isn’t life
interesting?
With very best
wishes.
Nigel
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From:
peter darwent <ppdarwent@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Re: Nigel Darwent's email address
Date:
January 27, 2019 at 12:19:54 PM EST
Hi Nige,
Re my address is all ok.
When I retired, I spent
many years researching the Darwent family from his fore fathers the Damants to
his descendants who now live all over the world.
The story about the first
oil well in Trinidad is very wrong in many details.
First Walter Darwent was
not an American having only spent a very few years in the USA, He was born in
London and his surname was Damant.
He left the UK with someone
else's wife and went to Canada. were again he spent a very few years.
I was never able to find
out when he changed his name and when he left the UK.
In the Trinidad papers
there are a number of stories between him and a Mr. Stollemeyer who owned land
around the pitch lake.
Merrimac drilled the well
at the pitch lake I did no research in this well.
Walter had no involvement
in Merrimac.
Walter drilled two wells
around San Fernando which were dry then he took his equipment to Aripero.
He contracted either
malaria or yellow fever and died in La Brea.
He is buried in San
Fernando.
Peter
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