@morning glory
Fascinating thread ..
Both my parents who are both alive and my grand parents & I had done alot of research via the Archives long before computers / internet were commerically or privately available ..
My paternal family dates back to the 1500s, origin Venice, Italy ( Cintrano which comes from Sintra & Sinatra & Sintrano ).
The paternal side were involved in almost the same business that they are in now. Of course over the years, many changes and re-engineering took place.
They sell porcelain, silverware, glass and stemware, restauration goods, hospitality merchandise and supply outerwear and uniforms to fishermen, hotels, restaurants, transport workers, and all types of trade workers.
Now, they specialise in the Hotel & high end Restaurant Sector along with my 2 sons and 1 of my daughter in laws and my husband & I who developed a Tour Operating Company and runs as a separate división in a different office location.
My mother hails from Gibraltar, however, she relocated to Barcelona to attend university, which is where she met my dad.
Her family ( Guillamet ) is Catalan & French Provençal and they had gone to Gibraltar, many many years ago. However, they are French and Catalan.
They too were in a related business, they sold fish and shellfish and all the equipment necessary for fishermen ..
My great great grandmother ( paternal ) was a writer. And perhaps that is why I freelance journalism and have a tiny magazine of my own.
Surely, the whole family loves the sea dearly ..
My parents had documented all of this and spent several years researching all of this ..
Extremely extraordinary .. My mom and maternal grandmom in her 90s now, have taken up the pen and are writing a small book on all of this .. She had recently started it ..
More " penners " ..