My Great Uncle. The youngest child of Nicola Orlando and his second wife Euphemia Tonna, Marcello was born in Zejtun, Malta, and received the names Joseph, Carmelo and Polycarpus on his baptism.
Raised by elderly growing parents, young Marcello soon rose up to be a classic manipulator. Some friends of his once suggested he'd join them on a trip to Sicily, which he did. There, they introduced him to many worldly adventures, having even some tattoos done, and ultimately got him drunk. They took all his money and left him there, all by himself. When he got up to his senses, hours later, without a single penny and in a foreign country, he did not know what to do. Providence wanted that he encountered an elderly gentleman, who noticing that the young fellow was in some sort of trouble, decided to help him get back to Malta.
Back home, his father was terribly upset upon learning what sort of trouble he had been into and told him to make a Novena. Settling down with a Gozitan girl, Rosina Gatt, Marcello got married and fathered three children. The marriage took place at Tarxien's Parish Church in 1930. They resided at first in Tarxien, where he pursued his blacksmith trade, which he inherited from his father. Beside his profession, he was also a keen carpenter and framemaker.
Moving permanently to Australia, Marcello was widowed in 1970. Long years of boiler making and forge welding led to acute respiratory problems. A long time resident of Merrylands, Sydney, he died in Parramatta, New South Wales, of emphysema on March 10, 1995, aged 83.
Marcello remained ashamed of his tattoos for his remaining years. He would wear long sleeves all year round, even in his blacksmith shop. One of his daughters for instance, realized he was tattood only on his deathbed. He was laid to rest upon the remains of his wife in Sydney.
Raised by elderly growing parents, young Marcello soon rose up to be a classic manipulator. Some friends of his once suggested he'd join them on a trip to Sicily, which he did. There, they introduced him to many worldly adventures, having even some tattoos done, and ultimately got him drunk. They took all his money and left him there, all by himself. When he got up to his senses, hours later, without a single penny and in a foreign country, he did not know what to do. Providence wanted that he encountered an elderly gentleman, who noticing that the young fellow was in some sort of trouble, decided to help him get back to Malta.
Back home, his father was terribly upset upon learning what sort of trouble he had been into and told him to make a Novena. Settling down with a Gozitan girl, Rosina Gatt, Marcello got married and fathered three children. The marriage took place at Tarxien's Parish Church in 1930. They resided at first in Tarxien, where he pursued his blacksmith trade, which he inherited from his father. Beside his profession, he was also a keen carpenter and framemaker.
Moving permanently to Australia, Marcello was widowed in 1970. Long years of boiler making and forge welding led to acute respiratory problems. A long time resident of Merrylands, Sydney, he died in Parramatta, New South Wales, of emphysema on March 10, 1995, aged 83.
Marcello remained ashamed of his tattoos for his remaining years. He would wear long sleeves all year round, even in his blacksmith shop. One of his daughters for instance, realized he was tattood only on his deathbed. He was laid to rest upon the remains of his wife in Sydney.
My Great Uncle. The youngest child of Nicola Orlando and his second wife Euphemia Tonna, Marcello was born in Zejtun, Malta, and received the names Joseph, Carmelo and Polycarpus on his baptism.
Raised by elderly growing parents, young Marcello soon rose up to be a classic manipulator. Some friends of his once suggested he'd join them on a trip to Sicily, which he did. There, they introduced him to many worldly adventures, having even some tattoos done, and ultimately got him drunk. They took all his money and left him there, all by himself. When he got up to his senses, hours later, without a single penny and in a foreign country, he did not know what to do. Providence wanted that he encountered an elderly gentleman, who noticing that the young fellow was in some sort of trouble, decided to help him get back to Malta.
Back home, his father was terribly upset upon learning what sort of trouble he had been into and told him to make a Novena. Settling down with a Gozitan girl, Rosina Gatt, Marcello got married and fathered three children. The marriage took place at Tarxien's Parish Church in 1930. They resided at first in Tarxien, where he pursued his blacksmith trade, which he inherited from his father. Beside his profession, he was also a keen carpenter and framemaker.
Moving permanently to Australia, Marcello was widowed in 1970. Long years of boiler making and forge welding led to acute respiratory problems. A long time resident of Merrylands, Sydney, he died in Parramatta, New South Wales, of emphysema on March 10, 1995, aged 83.
Marcello remained ashamed of his tattoos for his remaining years. He would wear long sleeves all year round, even in his blacksmith shop. One of his daughters for instance, realized he was tattood only on his deathbed. He was laid to rest upon the remains of his wife in Sydney.
Raised by elderly growing parents, young Marcello soon rose up to be a classic manipulator. Some friends of his once suggested he'd join them on a trip to Sicily, which he did. There, they introduced him to many worldly adventures, having even some tattoos done, and ultimately got him drunk. They took all his money and left him there, all by himself. When he got up to his senses, hours later, without a single penny and in a foreign country, he did not know what to do. Providence wanted that he encountered an elderly gentleman, who noticing that the young fellow was in some sort of trouble, decided to help him get back to Malta.
Back home, his father was terribly upset upon learning what sort of trouble he had been into and told him to make a Novena. Settling down with a Gozitan girl, Rosina Gatt, Marcello got married and fathered three children. The marriage took place at Tarxien's Parish Church in 1930. They resided at first in Tarxien, where he pursued his blacksmith trade, which he inherited from his father. Beside his profession, he was also a keen carpenter and framemaker.
Moving permanently to Australia, Marcello was widowed in 1970. Long years of boiler making and forge welding led to acute respiratory problems. A long time resident of Merrylands, Sydney, he died in Parramatta, New South Wales, of emphysema on March 10, 1995, aged 83.
Marcello remained ashamed of his tattoos for his remaining years. He would wear long sleeves all year round, even in his blacksmith shop. One of his daughters for instance, realized he was tattood only on his deathbed. He was laid to rest upon the remains of his wife in Sydney.
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