Hi again. You have been marvelous, and I am slow to digest what you have found but I will get there.
What happened to them and what have I done to find these people?
I live in Australia. I found 29 Diacono families and wrote to each by snail mail...some were interconnected. I got two hits - but nothing to confirm. These people were not related to my Diacono.
I have scoured every website I can find.
maltagenealogy.com, cityoflondon, familysearch.com, britishgenealogy.com (most helpful), maltamigration.com, nationalarchivist.com, DiVe.com, GenesReunited (with my brother helping)
1837online.com (very helpful), ancestry.co.uk, britishhistoryonline, familyrelative.org, and what I came up with was as follows:
The name Diacono is Maltese (but not in origin) - with roots in Rome as far back as Charlemagne.
Maltese Diaconos did not lose their nationality if they migrated to places like Suez, Alexandria, England - they had British Passports with MALTA stamped in the front cover.
I found what I think is Louisa Annie Philipine Diacono's Death at sea in 1880, on a ship called the "Almora"
It was a British Consular Record.
When I tried to get the death Certificate, I couldn't because the computer insisted I put in dd/mm and I only had the year.
Cora Louisa was my grandmother. She died in Australia in 1937...this is well enough documented.
Frederick Robert Diacono - he seemingly disappeared.
I have been unable to even find passport details for himself, Louisa Annie nor for then, baby Cora.
Jane Diacono is not a name I know.
I know a Diacono name to be Carmela.
There was a Carmela Diacono in British Record, who died in Alexandria in the 5 year period 1901 to 1905. She was 66 years old and could have easily been Fredericks Mother.
I have only found this out in the past few days.
Until this morning, I didn't know who his father was, but now I know him to be Joseph Laurence Diacono.
I have sourced Diacono's in France to no avail. My contact was a Diacono and a genealogist - she could not help.
In Australia there is a fellow called Julius - he researched the Diacono family - No - he has no Frederick Robert Diacono.
Believe me, I have scoured the Mediterranean for this man - these folk used ships as we do cars on highways.
I was also told that, sometimes, a person applying for a Passport, could change their first name at the Passport office - my Australian contact did this in Cairo. The name change was to be more acceptable.
Frederick was in Alexandria - I have a photo of him with Alexandria printed on the front. He was in Cyprus, because he mailed the same photo to his Mother In Law in England from there.
Cora was a baby in Egypt "fed on asses milk" She later turned up in Sliema in Malta.
Oral history says that Frederick re-married and had three more children, Joseph, David and Irima.
Cora, as a child, apparently could not get on with her step mother and was packed off to England to be with her Grandmother Louisa Isabella - this is true because I have found Cora and her Grandmother on the 1891, and 1901 Censuses. Her Grandmother died in 1904. Cora married in 1905 (Walter Robert Deller Fawcett), came to Australia - and died in 1937.
Frederick Disappeared!
Glamorgan was the only place I knew there were Diacono families which I had not tried.
I am wary of Oral history - my Aunt is 85 and blind...her memory is not the best...but I go with the flow.
She did however, tell me she thought Frederick was stabbed to death either at sea or in Cyprus. No Date No Nothing...just hearsay.
Even so, if he had an English Passport, to work and live in England, surely his death would have been reported to an English Consulate or perhaps from the ship on which the incident occurred.
I think that is it - a novella really.
I am getting on in years myself and with limited means. When I started, I had no idea the task my Aunt had set me.
Thank you for assistance thus far. I am now working on the URL above.
Thank you, and I apologise for any misleading information I may have given - you are working so hard on my account.
Lucy
PS I have been advised that two new posts came in while I was typing. Yes - these could have been my search. I am hunting all over for Frederick Robert Diacono. I seemingly have traced all the others to a degree.
Valda - GenesReunited - yes this is my Grandmother. I have this information
Rhys - yes - as written in this post - I discovered this too.
Valda - The names Jane, Beatrice - John - don't ring any bells...
Item details: FO 847/23 : quick reference
Regina vs. Giuseppe L. Dicacono and Frederick R. Diacono
1892
The Guiseppe L Diacono! Now - this rings bells. He has obviously changed his name as this is the equivalent of Joseph....Father and Son.
Is it possible Frederick fled some legal jurisdiction?
Now you have hit something.
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