Moodie Mankhan

Moodie Mankhan was born of unknown parents on 16 April 1914. He married Batulan (maiden name unknown) very young (perhaps when she was 10–12), and fathered Mohammed (1934), Hameeda (1938), Esahack (1941), Isha (1943), Esau (1945), and Hamid (1947) Mankhan.

He worked as a gauger (oil equipment maintenance worker) at the Gonzales, Point-Fortin oil fields, and later as a maintenance worker for the Ministry of Works.

Suicide
''Her father was a very, very smart man. He could do anything that he set his mind to. He would do things like sewing his children's underwear, bake, basically anything and do it well. On the other hand, he was also a very volatile person. Once he took her mother to their garden, put a machete to her throat, threatened to kill her, and she had to scream and beg and plead with him not to. Another time he chopped off someone's ear. He was alcoholic, and she said you could always hear him coming by bike from far away. Sometimes he would fly into a rage and they would need to spend the night on the road.''

''One day he tried to set fire to their house, but they were lucky because it was raining and the fire got put out. Shortly after that he ran somewhere behind the house and didn't come back. After a few days a cousin found him dead, hung by a vine. Isha said she was very glad she wasn't the one who had found him, and that she hadn't needed to see his body.''
 * Source: Recounting by Shanel Kalicharan of story told by Isha Mankhan.