António João Flores, was born in Velsao, Salcete, Goa. He was the resident of the Alter of Chao at the district of Port Alegre. He was also the brother in law of the baroness of Mesquita and the Baroness of Brissos. Antonio Joao Flores in his last dispatch to his father which arrived in Goa on 10 October 1873 gave the sad news of the death of his colleague at the Bachelors of Medicine degree, Caetano Francisco Pereira.