* 1761 Tomaso Borg and Giorgio Felice of Qormi, left for Augusta, Sicily as bakers.

* 1761 Giuseppe Fenech and Filippo Borg of Lija and Pietro Scerri of Rabat, Malta went to work as farmers in Palermo, Sicily. Note: Pietro Scerri died a few days afterwards and buried in Sicily.

* Giovanni Catania of Zejtun and Michele Ciaia of Cospicua had shops in Cadiz, Spain.

* 1771 Carmelo Zammit of Vittoriosa left for Marseilles, France.

* 1773 Teodoro Cardona was an officer of the Neapolitan army.

* 1782, the marriage of Michele Bonelli of Nadur, Gozo and Caterina Boagiar of Rabat, Malta

* Antonio Cagliaresi of Livorno, Italy, was first engaged to Anna Arena of Senglea, then to Maria Valenza.

* Cosmano Ruffo of Livorno, Italy, married in Malta under the false name of Antonio Medici to a Maltese wife called Elena from Cospicua.

* Tomaso Camilleri (ta' Gejtan il-furnar) son of Gaetano the baker took a slave muslin wife to free her from slavery.

* Giovanni Maria Zammit, of Lija was a slave in Tripoli for 43 years and kept his Catholic faith for 12 years then turned Muslin and married a "Meriem, whom he had 12 children, but three survived by the names of: Jusef, Fatma, and Emma. Giovanni Maria had also had a Maltese wife called Rosa, with issue and a brother called Antonio. Giovanni Maria was not able to see his Muslin wife and children again. He tried to go to them but was put in Jail in Sicily.

 

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