Keeping things in the family must have been important for Generosa; she was the daughter of the consul of England and married another consul. She is one of my maternal 7 x great-grandmothers.
Generosa Watts
Port of Malta region
Emanuele Imbrogl
Emanuele’s surname morphed from Imbrogl to Imbroll, possibly because of phoenetic spelling. He is one of my maternal 4 x great-grandparents.
Guglielma Dodsworth
Twice-married, Guglielma lived in Valletta during the reign of the Knights, the French occupation, and the beginning of the British Empire’s influence over the islands. She is one of my maternal 5 x great-grandmothers.
Giovanni Borg
Giovanni Borg is a common Maltese name which makes researching this ancestor hard. In electoral registers, there are 20-odd such names listed and there’s no way of telling if he’s one of them, or which one he is. He was one of my paternal 3 x great-grandfathers.
Domenico Magri
Domenico married at an astonishingly young age, which makes me wonder what happened. A shotgun wedding is the most likely answer, but who knows what the truth really was? He was one of my paternal 3 x great-grandfathers.
Maria Camilleri
Maria and Camilleri are common names in Malta. She married a Borg, which is the most common surname in Malta. All this makes researching her history challenging. She is one of my paternal 3 x great-grandmothers.
Caterina Curmi
Caterina lived in Valletta and its suburbs and married young, at the age of 14. There’s no data to show if this was a forced wedding or not, so who knows what happened. She is one of my maternal 3 x great-grandmothers.
Rosaria Sant
I know Rosaria existed because of the record of her marriage; I haven’t found her birth and death records, as yet. She is one of my paternal 3 x great-grandmothers.
Maria Carmela Borg
Valletta-born and raised, Maria Carmela married young, and died before her 50th birthday. She is one of my paternal 3 x great-grandmothers.
Luigi Xuereb
There are almost no primary sources for Luigi given the lack of concrete data around his life. He is one of my paternal 3 x great-grandfathers.