Malta family crest

For those whose family name is Malta, Maltese, Maltesi etc...The Malta family crest pictured here:

First found in Sicilia or Sicily an island in the Mediterranean, a part of Italy. The original inhabitants were Sicels. Research shows that records of the Malta family date back to the noble Maltese family in Sicily, where Remigio Maltese was a castleowner in Lentini and Paolino Maltese obtained the castle of Stafenda in 1230. The Greeks colonized in 735 B.C. Phoenician settlements began in 6th century. Carthaginians arrived 410. Romans arrived, then the Saracens. Then the Norman Conquest said to be Sicily's brightest hour, 1057 A.D and taking 35 years.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Elis Malta, who is recorded as settling in America in 1848; Cologero Malta, his wife Costanza and their two children, who were recorded in Louisiana between the years 1901-1910.


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