A British national before the British ruled the Maltese islands, Isidoro was the grandson of a consul of the British Empire and married into a French family.
Tag: 18th Century
Michele was a Felice but had this name changed to Felici, possibly because of a typo.
He is one of my maternal 3 x great-grandfathers.
Details are scarce about this 18th century ancestor of mine, but she did live in the burgeoning suburb of Valletta, now called Floriana.
Salvatore may be one of the few ancestors of mine who lived to a 100. Like most 19th century people, he lived in Valletta as it evolved under British rule.
He is one of my maternal 3 x great-grandfathers.
Seeing Malta transition from a possession of the Knights of St John, to being under Napoleon, to being a British colony must have been impressive. Vincenzo lived through all this.
He is one of my maternal 4 x great-grandfathers.
We know little about Michele Darmenia because few records exist.
Giorgio is one of those people whose life is documented through a series of entries in church registries, as often happened in Malta.
He is one of my maternal 6 x great-grandfathers.
Little is known about Giuseppe d’Armenia except that he was a judge, and married 4 times.
He is my 7 x great-grandfather.