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Re: Grech Family Cairo Egypt

jonboy1621 — 2013-03-09 08:32:24Z

I'm not sure if there is a link but from what I know there are at least 4 generations of the Grech family born in Egypt.

Re: Grech Family Cairo Egypt

jonboy1621 — 2013-03-09 08:30:14Z

My family name is Grech and my father and his parents were from Egypt. They migrated to Australia in 1952

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

RasWechsler — 2013-03-08 10:03:54Z

The expert on the Borg family definitely is Julius Borg. Please contact him via http://www.maltagenealogy.com/juliusborg01.html. He has collected information on all of the Borgs from Egypt, even those he wasn't releated to!

Another way to access records is via GRO:
DEATH Gaetano Borg: Death betw. 1876-1880, Volume 6, Page 534. You can order the death certificate via www.gro.gov.uk. The cost for a document lies between 9 and 10 £. You can pay by credit card.

And a third possiblity are the UK National Archives.: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C71... All possible court records from the British consulate in Alexandria and Cairo are archived there. By ordering relevant copies you can uncover amazing information. I found the name of my great grandfather's third wife (Nicola Borg) this way and the names of the sister's and brothers-in-law from my paternal great grandfather by requesting copies of their probates. Here all you need is a little bit of time and patience. The copies cost about 1£ per page, so make sure you note that you only need the part of the file pertaining to whatever case you think may apply. If you live in the UK, you can go to the Archives and have a look at the documents on location. You may need an appointment however.

Hope to have helped a bit further. If Gaetano is Angelo's son and Nicola's brother, I would be interested in any information you've got. After all Gaetano would then be my grandmother's uncle. She's Nicolas youngest child, by the way, from his second wife.

Cheers
Barbara

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

e9678 — 2013-03-08 08:45:16Z

Barbara,

Thanks for the reply...to be honest I am floundering a little. The last 100% correct information I have is my great grandfather Spiro Borg and his marriage to Angela (I do not think her maiden name is correct). My original source implied that Spiro was related to Rosaria...I dont know how.

Do you know any details on Gaetano/Vinceza or where I might be able to get it?

Many thanks!

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

RasWechsler — 2013-03-08 08:35:00Z

Do you mean

Angelo Borg *around 1820 in Malta, name of wife unknown

Nikola Borg *1857 †1949, married 3 times to Rosaria Zahra, Joanna Scerri, Anna Matovic
- many children with first wife (Rosaria)
- one daughter with second wife
- 3rd marriage childless

Gaetano Borg *about 1850, married to Vincenza Zammit
- daughter Rosaria Borg *1886 married to Giovanni Zammit

Theresa Borg *about 1850, married to Joseph Zammit
- son Giovanni Zammit *about 1889, married to Rosaria Borg (his cousin, daugher of Gaetano)

Kind regards
Barbara

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

e9678 — 2013-03-08 07:01:24Z

Hi,

I am the descendent of Gaetano Borg (married to Vincenza). My great grandfather was Spiro Borg their son, who married Angela Aeluan and gave birth to my grandmother Georgette. The family moved from Malta to Egypt during the life of Gaetano/Vincenza and I am trying to get records of these two however I have very limited information available. I need to know where they were born and dates along with parent's names if possible. Can anyone assist? (even with places to get records etc from).

Many thanks.

Edward.

Re: TANURY,SALIM, ABDO YAMEEN ---- ZAHLE, LEBANON

Lailan35 — 2013-01-13 14:09:35Z

Hello,

My dads half sister is called Naseima Tanury, and by this time she must be a very old lady if she is alive.
My grandfather was Mayib ayeib Tanury and he has two other brothers one was called Yamil. They came to Colombia after the war.
My dAd name is Adel Tanury. I don't know much about my family.

Nayla
.

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

williamaustinfulham — 2012-12-05 09:45:32Z

Hi Barbara
Thanks for your reply, it is lovely to hear from you.
According to my mother, Theresa, her father started the family tomb for his mother Rosalia as he felt responsible for her death. If you would like to contact me on my personal email william.austin@yahoo.co.uk I could send you some photos of the tomb and more details as to who is buried there. Sounds odd but my wife and I really enjoyed our visit to the tomb as we had heard so much about it over the years and it made us feel so much more connected with my past. You say your family dispersed around the globe after Egypt, most of my Borg relations settled in the UK and I am still, very much, in touch with my cousins.
For my records could I just confirm that your grandmother was married to Otto? Also could you let me know which part of the National Archive (I assume Kew) you went to for information on the Borgs (not the ones in Star Trek Voyager).
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards William

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

RasWechsler — 2012-11-29 21:47:04Z

Hi William

Sound exciting. My grandmother Rosa is the youngest daughter of Nicola and his second wife Joanna/Giovanna. My father is her eldest child. Looks like Beniamino loved weddings, he witnessed the wedding of my parents!

Julius Borg, not related to us, has done a lot of research on the Maltese families in Egypt, and I have extensive information on the entire family. I only published a part on ancestry so far.

In your other post your wrote you visited Egypt and the family tomb. I wasn't aware one existed. This is fantastic. After the exodus from Egypt, my part of the family hasn't managed to settle down in one place properly and we are spread all over the world. Its nice to know some kind of roots exist in the form of a tomb ;-).

I have ordered some documents from the National Archive on the estate of Nicola. These kind of documents normally shed a lot of light on family relations, as I have found out. I found the family of my great grandfather this way - a family, which whose heritage was kept a great secret all my life, god knows why.

Anyway, keep in touch. I'd love to hear from you!

Barbara

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

williamaustinfulham — 2012-11-29 20:37:07Z

Hi Edgar

I am also a great grandson of Nicola Borg, my grandfather being the eldest son from his first marriage, Alfredo, and my mother was Alfredo's youngest child. I would love to get in touch with you as some of the information I have doesn't match, I was under the impression that Edgar was the son of
Celestina or is this a different Edgar. Also do you know if Edgar is a family name as one of my mother's brothers was also called Edgar. Hope to hear from you
William

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

williamaustinfulham — 2012-11-29 20:13:13Z

Hello

I have just read your query and a lot of it is very familiar to me. I am the grandson of Alfredo Borg (born 1883) my mother being the youngest of his six children. I would love to hear from you as I am sure we can be of help to one another. I have , in fact, just returned from Egypt where I went to visit the Borg family tomb.

William

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

williamaustinfulham — 2012-11-29 20:00:35Z

Hi Barbara

I have just found your query - I am the grandson of Alfredo Borg, my mother being his sixth and youngest child. He was the eldest son of Nicola and I believe the Benjamin you mention is the uncle who gave my mother away at her wedding as her father had died the year before. I'd love to hear from you.

William

Persian/Turkish/ Caucasus

Faye_Silliman — 2012-11-17 14:17:46Z

Is anyone related to me?

Armenian-Durian Migration

Gardengreens — 2012-11-05 02:20:01Z

I'm researching the family name Durian. The family appears to have moved to Stuttgart in large part in about 1600, but I believe Durian is an Armenian name. Does anyone have info about Armenian Durians?

zebdine al maten lebanon

ramferris — 2012-10-09 03:43:24Z

Family surname Simon and Joseph came from this town. Settled in Olean
New York. Looking for any relatives. Great grandfather had a brother Dawoud. Cousin John Khoury was left property to manage for. Ebean Simon he had two sons Rachid and Rashid. Grand mother Mary Joseph and three brothers Abdo. Shaheen and Saeed.

Re: searching BRISK/DONIN/CHAVIN/ISRAEL/COHEN/DAWER families

Ajei10 — 2012-09-28 11:14:23Z

I believe that Moshe and Esther are my great great grandparents. My great grandfather was called Nissim Israel who lived in Belgian Congo and these two were his parents. Could I get further information on this if possible.

Marguerite Larricia Ghinis

CindyRuiz44 — 2012-08-02 01:59:46Z

I am looking for any information regarding my grandmother. I think her maidan name was Larricia. Her married name was Marguerite Ghinis she married Alexander Ghinis and had a son named Gilbert George he was born in 1942 in Cairo Egypt. Marguerite died when Gilbert was 5 or 6 years old. After her death Alexander took Gilbert to the U.S. Here are some names that I think may be related to Alexander.Giorgo Ghinis, Kosta Ghinis, Zafiria Papalekatoy, Eleni Syrakis, Elektra (Lillie) Moubarec. I have no information about her except a photo of her and my father (Gilbert) not long before she died. I don't even know what she died from. She may have been born in Italy. Any info would help.

Re: Kurdish Relatives

barbdale_1 — 2012-07-09 17:32:03Z

I see this is your first post on this board. It is important that you be very specific on what you seek. That includes first and last names, where they were born and/or lived, and any dates you know. Even a guess can be helpful - if you don't know when a person was born, you can make a guess by when their children were born. As it is, I don't even have an idea if you mean Kurdish as in an ethnicity, or as a surname.

Kurdish Relatives

EMMAPEARL2011 — 2012-07-09 03:14:18Z

Searching for Kurdish family history

Cachia, Barun (Barum), Yaccarini and Spirakou (Spirakos) in Egypt

markcachia89 — 2012-06-11 09:37:52Z

If anyone has any information rgarding these families in Egypt from 1878-1949 tht would be fantastic! Details please email me directly (don't want to let the whole world know family secrets).

Look forward to hearing from you.

Mark Cachia

Re: Dingiroglou?

hyechica — 2012-05-21 16:27:38Z

the surname kouyoumge is def kouyoumdjian variations of it are without the d spelling kouyoumjian or kajian is another very shortened version of it. my maternal grandmother was a kouyoumdjian her mother father grandmother and family were in turky and during the genocide in 1915 when armenians were forced out of the only home/land they knew the ones who survived were forced to live elsewhere my great grandma had an aunt her mothers sister was a loussarian they went to Argentina. my great grandfather and great grandmother fled to khartoum sudan. there were a lot of ethnic groups over there at the time and a huge armenian community. my grandma and her 3 siblings born raised in sudan the oldest was born in turkey they lived in khartoum one of her older brothers was the first to come to american she came second, followed by her other brother, her sister was the last one to come to the states in the mid 80s when her husband passed away. people were leaving Khartoum British rule was no longer in sudan right now about 100-150 armenians remain in Khartoum.
do you know anything else about the kouyoumge name like where they might have gone after turkey.

with armenians its sometimes hard to trace things because the genocide wiped out entire families. my maternal great grandfathers whole family was whipped out, and my maternal great grandmothers family was as well only my great great grandmother her sister and my great grandma survived, there were some other siblings but one died in a swimming accident and the other was giving the wrong medicen

Re: Politi/Politis family

mayaknob — 2012-05-16 15:53:37Z

I'm from the balassiano family, but we write it Balaciano. I know somethings about the family and i would like to share it and learn more about the family.
Thanks,
Maya Balaciano (now Knobler),
mayaknob@hotmail.com

Re: Aged, Ash Sharqhui, Oman

norma_fry — 2012-02-10 21:30:19Z

Lisa, Ash sharqui has shown as a possible link to my great Aunt Jane Jacob (married to a Mr Weatherbey).Aunt Janey had a sister Sarah and Mum's (my grandmothers.father) James Jacob b.1826.She talked about them lots and we visited Oxford lots... However I am surprised to find this possible connection and intriqued.
Does any of this have any revelance to your research?

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

RasWechsler — 2012-02-01 15:17:24Z

It sure does sound familiar. Nicola, Angelo's (the younger Angelo) brother was my great-grandfather. They also had a sister, Theresa. Nicola himself was married three times and had eight children from his first wife (Angelo being one of them) and one daughter, my grandmother, from his second wife, who had three children herself from a former marriage. I don't know if Nicola and his third wife had any children. To be quite honest, I was quite surprised to find out that he had eight the first time around. Family intelligence has it that there were three boys only ... What is definitely true however, that one of his second wives daughters, Vincenza Malamo married Beniaminus Borg, a son of the first wife!

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

wobblyartist42 — 2012-02-01 01:27:15Z

I am researching the Borg and Zammit family for a friend, they originated in Malta with Angelo Borg b 15.2.1822
This family gets really confussing as it appears that several times cousins have married and all lines lead back to Angelo Borg!
The facts I have are that Angelo had two sons at least
1.Nicola who was married to Rosalia - he had a son Alfredo Borg b1883 married to Antoinette Mander - Their son Alfredo Angelo Borg b1912 (came from Egypt in 1950's to England), he married his cousin several times removed Vincenza Agnes Zammit
2. Gaetano Borg who was Married to Vincenza (Zammit) - their daughter Rosina b 1886 married Giovanni Zammit - their daughter was Vincenza Agnes Zammit who 1st married Francesco Pierini (he died in 1941) and she remmaried to her cousin Alfredo Angelo Borg. She had one child from her first marriage to Francesco and 3 from her second to Alfredo.

Francesco Pierini was the son of Alfredo Pierini and Anna Pavone. He had a brother Salva Pierini b1914 d1960. Alfredo Pierini was one of 5 children and his father was Farucho.
The Pierini family were from the Ancona area of Italy and it is Alfredo who was married to Anna Pavone who come to Egypt. One of Alfredo's cousins was a bronze medalist weight lifter in the Olympics representing Italy... His name was Gastone Pierini and he had a daughter Roberta I think they ended up in Rio.

If any of this is familiar I would really like to hear from you.

Re: Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

EdgarBorg — 2012-01-27 13:08:41Z

Dear Barbara,
well I think your part of my family, wow I'm so happy welcome to the family girl, Nicola was my great grand father, yes he married three times as far as I know. one of his many children
was my grandfather Angelo who married Paulina Caruana they had 5 children (that lived) Walter, Oscar, Edgard, Leonor, and Margaret, I am the only son of Edgard Borg, my name is Edgar Borg, And I have A son Called Edgar Borg As well, Get into contact with Me directly on my mail edgarpacific@yahoo.es
would realy realy love to hear from you.
best regards
Edgar

Aged, Ash Sharqhui, Oman

lara5559 — 2011-11-10 20:37:22Z

Does anyone know what was happening in this area in the 1800s. My great g g g g grandfather disappeared in 1798 from Doncaster when they were recruiting for the militia. His parents die in Oman in 1810 and 1822 if this is correct, then his grandaughter in 1892 and her grandson in 1948. I know it became a british treaty in 1798 and there may have been wars (Mysore) against the British East India tea company. Aged looks like it is no longer a city and Im not sure where to email for info, I.E. family history or military societies. Any help would be great.

Kind Regards

Lisa

Alexandria, Egypt_Who knows anything about the Borg or Mallamo family

RasWechsler — 2011-09-11 13:15:27Z

Hi, I am a descendent of Nicolas Borg and Joanne Scerri widowed Mallamo (or the other way around). My grandmother was their daughter. Her name was Rosaria Laurenzia. She had half-brothers and sisters, as both her parents were widowed with small children. Some of the names of her siblings or sibings-in-law were:
Beniaminus Borg
Eduardus Mallamo
Angelina Mallamo
Audreina Mallamo
Has anybody come accross these name in their ancestry query, or could help me in finding out more. Appernetly there were 3-5 half siblings of my grandmother's on each side.

All were born and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. Most left Egypt in the late 1950, but I don't know where to.

I would be very grateful if s.o. could help me.

Barbara

Re: What's my nationality?

tpifer1951 — 2011-04-30 04:49:29Z

I too am a Pifer, the nationality is German. Tom

Jamai - El Jamai Looking for Relatives from Morocco

Kimmerly1966 — 2011-04-27 20:07:08Z

Hi, I am Kim and I live in the US. My Mom was born to MOhamed Benjaim Jamia, However since being on here, his last name at one time could have been El-Jamai. He was an acrobat and traveled a lot. He married a woman named Jane G. Troupe (Jean) they only had my mom Benoite C Jamai. We believe he had a brother that died, he was in the spanish civil war and was a general, he had a sister name Fatima or it might be Fathouma, his dads name was Ahmed El-Jamai, or maybe just Jamai. IT looks like they were from Mazagan Morocco, Any info would be so helpful. I am stuck and am not sure where to get more records from Morocco. Ty

Re: NABRA- MIDDLE EASTERN? SYRIAN ARABIC REPUBLIC?

jmccal11 — 2011-04-16 21:07:50Z

A quick search of facebook shows that is clearly a name coming from the Middle East, probably an Arab country or Syria, Egypt, etc.

Re: Samaan surname

gooleh — 2010-11-11 09:57:12Z

please look in the pic is mathilde samaan and parviz

Re: Samaan surname

gooleh — 2010-11-11 09:49:28Z

yes , contact me

Re: Samaan surname

gooleh — 2010-11-11 09:24:45Z

contact me , i know you , im your cousin , parviz ebrahimi hamrazes grandchil.

Re: SAMAN

gooleh — 2010-11-11 08:14:44Z

PLEASE ,IN CASE YOU ARE RELATED TO MATHILD STEIN SAMAAN , GEORGE AND YVETTE SAMAAN BIRTH PLACE IN IRAN ,NATIONALITY FRENCH ARRIVAL TO USA , NEWYORK YEAR AND DATE : APRIL 11 1942 AND YVETTE WAS 4 YRS OLD AND GEORGE IF YOU KNOW THEIR BROTHER PARVIZ AMIREBRAHIMI SON OF MATHILDE AND JALIL ALDOLE EBRAHIMIKHAN AMIREBRAHIMI PLEASE CONTACT ME.

Re: Samaan surname

gooleh — 2010-11-11 08:08:28Z

Hi ,
PLEASE CONTACT ME ASA YOU GET THIS MESSAGE ,
I'M PARVIZE'S GRANDCHILD , SAIDEH'S DAUGHTER , AND DESPERATELY LOOKING FOR GEORGE SAMAAN AND YVETTE SAMAAN , PLEASEEEEEEE

Re: Rafeel

Jona1992 — 2010-10-08 02:11:37Z

My grandfather's name is "Rafael" and we are of Egyptian ancestry too.

Grech Family Cairo Egypt

jld742 — 2010-07-14 17:27:25Z

I am looking for information on the Grech family. Here is the information I do have. Maria Grech was born in Cairo Egypt around 1852 her parents are listed as Onorato and Vincenza Grech. Maria had a brother Deodato who was born in Valletta, Malta in 1861. Maria married Achille Depasquale and they had 3 children that I am aware of Eugenia, Onorato, and Giuseppe. Any further information on any of these would be much appreciated

Rafeel

lailarafeel1 — 2010-04-23 23:08:40Z

Hi,I'm of Arabic ancestry. I managed to find out that my
last name comes from Rafeel. Does anyone have this last name, too?

am from rafeel family

lailarafeel1 — 2010-04-23 22:53:08Z

Hi,I'm of Arabic ancestry. I managed to find out that my
last name comes from RAFEEL. Does anyone have this last name, too?

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:54:51Z

Zara Rose Nicholas Hathoot mother of Joseph Hathoot b. 1876 Furzul or Fourzel Syria Lebanon, Joseph had 12 children, one of whom was Abraham b. 1915 Michigan City married Bertha Marie Taylor.in 1936 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma .his 2 children are Patricia Jean Hathoot b 1937 and Dwayne David b.1946 Patricia married Don Eugene Chelf in 1958 in Kerman California and had 3 children Randall 1959, Donald 1961, Bradley 1971.

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:29:34Z

oh...sorry, I thought I was replying to Ceils daughter. OK I am too new at this posting thing. If you have any questions I can help you with I would be glad to help.

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:27:48Z

oh...sorry, I thought I was replying to Ceils daughter. OK I am too new at this posting thing. If you have any questions I can help you with I would be glad to help.

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:27:43Z

oh...sorry, I thought I was replying to Ceils daughter. OK I am too new at this posting thing. If you have any questions I can help you with I would be glad to help.

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:27:27Z

oh...sorry, I thought I was replying to Ceils daughter. OK I am too new at this posting thing. If you have any questions I can help you with I would be glad to help.

Re: Cristello and Hathoot of Nicholas ancestry from Lebanon

kbfedder — 2010-04-09 01:24:59Z

Hi Cousin....Cousin Barbara here. Yes we are related to the Nicholas's of Enid. Our aunt Genivieve married Nick Nicholas, and their daughter Vivienne and I were very close, we worked on the family tree some 30 years ago. I recently have been in touch with her daughter Carol wanting to continue the search. Now which daughter of Aunt Ceil are you? you can e-mail me at kbfedder@att.net .....

Re: Umsheet, Lebanon

brianbadway — 2010-03-26 02:35:19Z

Hello
My family came from Kfrasghab in nothern Lebanon near eheden.

Adam and Eve - Full Genealogy

lolwalmartlol — 2010-03-21 16:19:41Z

I, as a Christian, have been able to trace my full family back to Adam and Eve. I'm not sure if everything is right though. I may have made some mistakes. But I was wondering, how many people from Troy actually traveled to Scandinavia, because that's the one thing that I really don't understand.

Re: Umsheet, Lebanon

CindyLeatherman — 2010-03-15 11:14:16Z

Brian,
Thank you for your response to my inquiry.... My interest was particularly piqued when I noticed your name is Badway. My grandmothers sisters last name was Badway. She came from Umsheet in the early 1900's. I don't know if it was her maiden name (if so that would have been my grandmothers name also) or a married name... Can you give some information on your name? Thanks, Cindy

Re: Umsheet, Lebanon

brianbadway — 2010-03-15 04:20:42Z

It could be Amsheet.Amsheet (also spelled Amchit) is a predominantly Maronite seaside town in Lebanon about 40km north of Beirut.