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* 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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