The family :

Shroff (Money Wadia) family has been in port of Surat since 1435, where their ancestors have been involved in chartering and financing of sailing boats. In 1745 the Shroff family moved to Bombay - Mumbai, where they carried out ship financing, ship chartering and trading in cotton cloth.

Sorabji Money Wadia and his brother Dorabji Money Wadia changed their name to Shroff - bank in 1880 and got involved in economic activities of Bombay. Sorabji's son Hormuzji Sorabji Shroff joined Shell and built all the oil tanks silos in Mumbai port while Dorabji's son Adeshir Dorabji Shroff became the father of the free Economic movement and one of the founding fathers after Independence of the first five year plan.

The family continued to invest and have shares in sailboats which went up to Aden-Dubai-Persian Gulf to trade cotton, dates, onions and other agricultural product's. Hormusji Sorabji Shroff was the grandfather of Mr. Mehernosh Pirojsha Shroff who remembers sailing in huge sailboats heading out to sea laden with agricultural products, aphonso mangoes etc. Many of the sail boat captains knew the Shroffs as Money Wadias who were willing to finance any good shipping venture as well as help any sailor in need, Mehernosh remembers quite a few sailors coming home with gifts from distant lands laden with exotic presents silks, carpets, parrots.

Hormusji Sorabji Shroff had married bai Pirojbai Paghriwala whose father Nusserwanji Paghriwala was one of the earliest members of the Bombay Stock Exchange. This family ran a huge pehri or office. Nuserwanjis sister had married Ratan Shah Contractor, the man who built the gateway of India / Apollo Bunder causeways on Mumbai island.

To build to last for a hundred years, work that is meticulous, each detail checked practice makes perfect, is very evident when any one looks at any of the structures built by any of the Shroff family members and their associated families.

Mr. Mehernosh Shroff's maternal grand father Mr. Jamshedji Mehta has built quite a few ice factories in the Indian sub continent from Karachi to Mumbai and Calcutta. Even now there are quite a few ice factories built by him which are fully functional even after 60 - 80 years.

Mr. Mehernosh Shroff's father "Percy" Pirojsha Hormusj Shroff was a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours 1938 (Economics) Sydenham and Elphinstone college. It was he who instilled sound principles in all his four children. He died of a heart attack when Mehernosh was 12 years old. Mehernosh's sisters are in the field of finance, stock exchange, real estate broking, but are happiest as mothers and sisters. All of Mehernosh 's sisters mother him.

The nth generations of Mehernosh's nephews and nieces are growing up in the same Parsee traditions of hard work, sincerity and commitment. Our name is our life's blood, very important to us. Our name as Indians, as Parsees and as a Sea Worthy family, the best ships are Sea Worthy. Sea Worthy is beyond excellence - it is commitment and dedication actually at work.

In our family, the most important members, our staff with whom we share a relationship of love, trust and care. For all our sailing staff we treat them like our own, we know of every officers and crew mother and dependents, wife's and children. We pass on all messages and have a separate division carrying out Custodial and Investment advising activities.