{"id":4437,"date":"2020-08-21T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:01:43","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some years now some of our family have been discussing\u00a0 the mystery of The Sicilian, a female ancestor about whom very little was known.\u00a0 Thanks to some new research, she has been identified as Elizabetta Calabro.\u00a0 She and her spouse, Andrew Walker, had a daughter named Mary, in 1815.\u00a0 Mary was born in Gosport, and was referred to as English. Mary is our direct ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Walker was &#8220;of this parish&#8221; in Towie, Aberdeenshire, so the birth was recorded at his church.\u00a0 Family legend has it that Elizabetta was a contessina, and eloped with Andrew when he was en route home.\u00a0 Maybe they were on their way north when the baby was born?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was recorded a a wine merchant, which could explain why he visited Sicily in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ban the Wasp was originally set up to share family history; it&#8217;s good to know that there is still an interest.\u00a0 For anyone brave enough to ask, I now have a family tree printout &#8211; it&#8217;s three metres wide&#8230;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4438\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=4438\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4438\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-20-0001-212x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birth of Mary Walker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years now some of our family have been discussing\u00a0 the mystery of The Sicilian, a female ancestor about whom very little was known.\u00a0 Thanks to some new research, she has been identified as Elizabetta Calabro.\u00a0 She and her spouse, Andrew Walker, had a daughter named Mary, in 1815.\u00a0 Mary was born in Gosport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}