In 1996 is de Probandus door genealogisch onderzoek erachter gekomen dat zijn vader nog een zus had. Haar naam was Carla de Paula Lopes. Zij had in een brief vanuit Nunda Amerika, zowel in het engels als in het Portugees, geschreven aan de schoonzus van haar vader in Brazilië dat hij aan een hartaanval was overleden. Het is via het adres op deze brief dat de Probandus verder in de staat New York genealogisch onderzoek heeft verricht. Zij bleek te wonen in Rochester, vlakbij het landgoed, in Nunda, van haar moeders familie. Toen de Probandus haar trof op moederdag, zei ze dat het de allermooiste moederdag geschenk was dat zij ooit gehad heeft. Zij is twee keer getrouwd geweest. Haar eerste huwelijk was met de Poolse Graaf Krzystof Jan Marja Skowronski [klik hier voor zijn kwartierstaat: treekrzysztofskowroskihskowroskiii.htm [82 KB] ]. Haar tweede huwelijk was met Freiherr Horst von Keltner. Haar dochter, de nicht van de Probandus, heet Gravin Chistina Skowronska Stoufer en is gehuwd met Timothy Ferner Stoufer. De Probandus is uitgenodigd op de trouwerij van haar dochter Emily Elizabeth Stoufer met Kapitien Joseph Emerson Berg. Zie hiervoor de Parenteel.

By doing genealogical research in 1996 the Probandus was able to find out that his father still had a sister by the name of Carla de Paula Lopes. She had sent a letter from Nunda in America, both in English and in Portuguese, to her sister in law. In this letter she wrote that her father sadly had died of a heart attack. It was by finding an address on the envelope that the Probandus had the means for doing genealogical research in the state of New York. She appeared to still live in Rochester, near the family estate (of her mothers side of the family), in Nunda. When the Probandus phoned her on mothers day, she told him that was the most beautiful mothers day present that she has ever had. She was married two times. The first marriage was with the Polish count Krzystof Jan Marja Skowronski [click here for his pedigree: treekrzysztofskowroskihskowroskiii.htm [82 KB] .

Her daughter, cousin to the Probandus, is Countess Christina Skowronska Stoufer, married to Timothy Ferner Stoufer. The Probandus has been invited to the wedding of their daughter Emily Elizabeth Stoufer to Capitain Joseph Emerson Berg. Please see the Lineage.

Dear nephew Marnix Alexander,

My thoughts have been turmoil, both bitter and sweet since we spoke om May 12th. Naturally, I am very excited and thrilled to hear from you, and saddend that my father could not have had the opportunity to know what became of his beloved son.
My father married your British grandmother, I know little about the circumstances of his first marriage, since he never talked about it to me, only that he had a son whom he hoped someday to find, and whom he loved dearly.His mother took my brother Derrick back to Europe in 1924 and didn´t return.

De genoemde grootmoeder hierboven van de Probandus was Gladys Copestake Harpur. Zijn grootouders scheiden uiteindelijk in 1928 in Parijs. Zijn grootmoeder hertrouwt met de rijke Nederlandse familie Smit van Gelder (bekend van papier ~ Nederlands Patriciaat), waardoor zijn vader een groot deel van zijn jeugd in Aerdenhout zou opgroeien. Zijn vader heeft ook een broer gehad, die echter in 1929 in Amerika dood ter wereld kwam.

The grandmother that is mentioned above by the Probandus was named Gladys Copestake Harpur. His grandparents would eventually have a divorce in 1928, in Paris. His grandmother remarries into the rich Dutch family Smit van Gelder (well known for their paper ~ Dutch Landed Gentry), as a result of which his father spend a large part of his youth in Aerdenhout. As it turned out his father has also had a brother, however he died when he was born in 1929 in America.