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.
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.