From Italy to Ireland…

I wasn’t being strictly truthful last month when I said that the earliest mention of my 3x great-grandfather Joseph Riboldi shows him trading as a print seller in Cork in 1810. For there’s another little oddity that’s been niggling away at me, and it’s high time I tried to nail it before we go too much further.

A number of years back, my cousin Andrew Holt made contact with a chap in Dublin who, I think, was researching Italian craftsmen in Ireland. In one of his emails to Andrew he’d copied and pasted what looked like part of a newspaper or magazine article that referenced someone with a name very similar to our ancestor’s. Intriguing.