Twiglets AN ELUSIVE ANCESTOR
Once in a while you get a thrilling-sounding lead, and within half an hour you’re turning cartwheels around the room as a key piece of the puzzle slots into place. More often, let’s be honest, you potter round and round in circles and end up back at square one. Frustratingly, searching for my 3x great-grandfather Joseph Riboldi in London looks to be one of those times…
In the first chapter of – Mary Anne Bianconi’s book about her entrepreneurial father – Charles describes asking ‘my old friend Ribaldi, who was at that time a prosperous tradesman in London’ to
