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From: Francisco Antonio Doria <>
Subject: [BRAZIL-L] Brazilian cousins of Quenn Paola of Belgium
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:30:07 -0000



messeder wrote:
> This message is indeed very exciting because Leon Mosselman
> was my grand aunt husband. My grand father Jose Eduardo Coelho Messeder had
a
> sister Carolina Maria who married Leon and had several children whose
> descendants are here in Bahia. My father loved Leon very much and told us a
> lot about him, a very excentric caracter who came to Bahia in late 1800 and
> here lived a very adventurous life and died very poor, being helped by my
> father in many occasions.I remember my father (Adriano Messeder) telling me
> that he recovered Uncle Leon's ring (with his cote de Arms) from the pawn
> shop
> many times and allways gave it back to him.
> This ring is now in my possesion as one of his grand daugthers offer that to
> me in recognition for my father previuous atitudes with Uncle Leon. In the
> proceedings of the Belgian consulate, writen in a book by former consul
> Arnold
> Willdberg one can read several pages dedicated to Uncle Leon and his
> adventures and misfortunes while in Bahia. He was the first Belgian
immigrant
> registrated at the Consulate. He was very knowledgable in geology and
related
> subjects, and very interested in Bahia's mineral resources. He went to state
> (and not believed) that Bahia had oil in abundance(proven to be right
> afterall) and worked in gold mines and precious stones exploration but as
> frequently happens never achieving real success. Apparently his difficult
> temper and lack of consistency got him nowhere. By reading my
> greatgrandmother
> letters(his mother in law) I can sense the constant worries he generated in
> her mind. Nevertheless my father admired his honesty and enjoyed his
company.
> My mother also got to know him well and only has good memories of this
> remarkable man.We have pictures of him and there is a transcription in the
> Belgiam consulate book of an inivitation he got from his noble relatives in
> Belgium regardind a funeral. (I have the details if anyone is interested).
> Also is known that he went back to Europe to visit his family and got stuck
> there because of World War I but details are lacking.He eventually returned
> and lived here the rest of his life. I can tell more because of my
> fascination
> with history and genealogy and I suposed his direct relatives in Bahia know
> less about him than I do. When I visited Belgium about 3 years ago, during a
> Medical Congress I felt sorry I did not have time to do a little research
and
> get in touch with his remaining relatives. I appreciate any informatiom
about
> Uncle Leon's family and if some of his relatives is willing I will be happy
> to
> collaborate. Thanh you for this opportunity. Octavio Messeder, MD.
>
>

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