Details are scarce about this 18th century ancestor of mine, but she did live in the burgeoning suburb of Valletta, now called Floriana.

She is one of my maternal 3 x great-grandmothers.

She was the daughter of Salvatore Debono¹ and Antonia née Psaila².

Since her parents married in 1794 she can’t have been born earlier than 1795.

Family

On Sunday 13 January 1833³, she married Salvatore Cremona⁴ in the Roman Catholic Church of St Paul’s Shipwreck⁵ in Valletta, Malta. Reverend Joseph Cremona officiated the wedding⁶.

Together they had 2 children I know of:

• Vincenzo
• Ludgarda Ersilia Lara Leonida Sophia Gratia Vincentia.

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Notable events

For the period 1798 – 1800, during the French occupation, she was a French citizen. It’s reasonable to think she was already born by then, but until I get clear evidence of this I won’t know for sure.

She lived in Floriana at the time she married⁷. Since her daughter was born in Floriana, she lived there at least for the first few years after marriage.

Death

While I have no further information on how or where she died, I know she was dead in 1912 when her daughter died⁸.

References

1. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
2. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
3. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
4. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
5. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
6. Certificate of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Registers of Marriages Held in the Collegiate and Parish Church of St. Paul Shipwrecked (Malta), (203) [↩]
7. Extract of Marriage of Salvatore Cremona and Concetta Debono. (1833). Liber Matrimoniorum, [online] XIV. Available at: https://www.maltaparisharchives.org [Accessed 23 Apr. 2025][↩]
8. Act of death of Ludcarda Cremona. (1912). Malta Government Public Registry. [online] Available at: https://www.certifikati.gov.mt [Accessed 02 Apr. 2025][↩]