Dr John Francis D'Abreu

General Notes:John Francis Abreo matriculated from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore in 1883 and attended Grant medical College in Bombay. He proceeded to Edinburgh for higher studies and settled in Birmingham. He changed his name from Abreo to D'Abreu.

John married Teresa Mary Gertrude NOONAN on Jun 12, 1895 in The Oratory, Birmingham. Teresa was born in 1860 and died on Dec 8, 1948 at age 88.

perhaps the first Mangalorean to marry into a different nationality. The couple had seven children – five girls followed by two boys. Both boys, Francis Arthur and Alphonsus (born on August 5, 1906), became eminent doctors, the former practicing at Harley Street, London. Francis is noted among Mangalorean Catholic community for having married, in 1945, Margaret Anne Bowes Lyon, the first cousin of then Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) – after her conversion to Catholicism.

Ref Notes : John B. Monteiro, article in Daijii world