About the author
Gill Shaw is a writer and former assistant editor of ‘Practical Family History’. She lives in Cambridgeshire and loves singing, and tracking down elusive ancestors.
Iwas n’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.