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Timeline of events
Timeline #1 – major events This javascript timeline allows you to see the male lineage alongside some significant events in Maltese history. Birthdates of early ancestors (‘c.’ = circa’) are guesses. You can access it fullscreen too. Timeline #2 – popes etc. This second timeline is a bit too busy, but it may be interesting…
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Lineage data
Some of you will want an easy way to look at the data. There are two ways to do view this from two different sources. It is difficult to find ways to display the data in interesting and informative ways. Ancestris data output This data is generated through a program called Ancestris which is admittedly…
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18th and 19th centuries: doctors, priests and lawyers
Dr Gabriele Luca Arcangelo’s son, Gabriele Luca Pullicino, a Doctor of Medicine, married Catarina Mangion on 23rd November 1761. He was a respected physician, having graduated from the University of Naples and practiced extensively in Zebbug. They had eight children, with two dying young. Only one married it seems. Their first child was born in…
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19th and 20th centuries: the judges
Filippo: the first judge (1824-1887) Judge Filippo Pullicino, whose visage was immortalized in an oil painting by the renowned Lazzaro Pisani in 1882 (presently in the possession of Robert Pullicino), was a prominent figure in Maltese history. Filippo was born in 1824. He was baptised the same day at St Dominic church in ‘Porto Salvo’…
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Church records
Maltese church records are being digitised from microfiche made in the 1980s. These are interesting primary sources to confirm dates and names. Below are some extracts from important family events. Notary Arcangelo Pullicino, married Giuliuzza Calleja at Zebbug on 26th November 1715. Both Arcangelo’s parents are deceased, and Guila’s father is a physician (Gabriele Calleja),…
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Sir Philip’s eleven children
Sir Philip and Lady Maude had eleven children. They had their children while living at 136 Tower Road, Sliema, three doors down from Maude’s parents at number 133. Many of their friends also lived in Sliema. All of the children laughed, learned and played together, and it was an absolutely wonderful way to spend the…
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A brief biography of Sir Philip
Sir Philip Pullicino was born in Valletta on 21 November 1885. He was educated at St. Ignatius College in Sliema, and at the University of Malta, where he obtained the degree of B.Litt. and graduated as Doctor of Laws in 1907, obtaining first place in his course and being granted a travelling scholarship. Philip’s signature,…
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Tracing the early family tree
This article is based in John Pullicino’s history of the early family as given in his geneaology on the old Pullicino website. I have completemented it with church and notarial records that have been digitised since then. The Beginnings: The 15th and 16th Centuries The earliest ancestor that was recorded by my family is Francesco…
