From Italy to Ireland…
Apr 09, 2021
3 minutes
I’ve been grinning like a Cheshire cat (or should that be a gatto di Lombardia?) ever since I found almost certain proof that my 3x great-grandfather Joseph Riboldi came from somewhere near Como in the Italian Lakes. And it’s all thanks to a young man named Charles Bianconi, who made the journey from Italy to Ireland with him, and Bianconi’s daughter Mary Anne who tells her father’s rags to riches story in a biography published in 1878. I’m still struggling to believe my luck!
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