Re: Ferreira as a Goan last name

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The Ferreiras are likely to appear in EastEnders for many years and the
tabloid Press has shown much interest  in the characters.  The average daily
audience of the BBC Soap series is over 11 million, making it by far the
most popular UK TV programme.



I have had messages from the Daily Mail and the BBC requesting  information.
The Producers have decided that they are a Goan family and various story
lines will be built around that.



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Goan Voice UK Weekly Newsletter,  Issue 2003-11. Mar. 14, 2003 at
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2003-11/



8 Mar. The Sun. EastEnders, the BBC TV soap series is to have a Goan family,
the Ferreiras, arriving in Albert Square this summer. The clan consists of
father Dan, three sons Ash, Adi and Ronnie and daughter Kareena. Full text
and photograph at http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003110026,00.html



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Goan Voice UK weekly Newsletter, Issue 2003-13. Mar. 28, 2003 at
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2003-13/



>From the Daily Mail, 24 Mar.:

...I am a researcher at the Daily Mail looking for a Goan family, living in
UK, with the surname Ferreira. The Daily Mail wants to do a feature
profiling a real life Ferreira family, to link in with the new family
arriving in EastEnders, also called Ferreira. It would cover a page in the
main body of the paper and I would be interested to hear from anyone willing
to participate.

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>From the BBC, 10 Apr.:

...Can you help me ...we are establishing a new character in the Square
who's origin is Goa and we were wondering if there were any shops which sold
Goan items that we could put on the set.  The character has been in England
for most of his adult life so it is only to  a small amount of items and we
have furbished the set so we are looking at ceramics, pottery etc.  If you
could help me in anyway, it would be great. We need the items a s a p

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>From the BBC, 11 Apr.: ...Our Goan father is a lapsed Catholic and his
children are being  raised as Hindu's from their mothers side....



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Eddie Fernandes







> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugene Correia" <gene_correia-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [Goanet] [GoanVoice-UK] Newsletter. Issue 2003-17. Apr. 25,
> 2003

> > I have never heard of Ferreira as a Goan last name.
> >
> > The surname is common among Bombay's East Indians.
> > Maybe those who produce the TV show Eastenders are not
> > aware of it.
> >
> > Eugene Correia
> >