As this family tree has expanded back and out beyond the immediate Gerard-Cross-Noble-Brady  families, We welcome all those that have a connection to the growing: Gerard - Yocca/Iocca- Cross- Cameron - Noble - Paterson - Brady - Fitzsimons...     and .... Thomas - Susse - Lucke - Kohler &  Zarb - Mangion - Xuereb - Cini  and...growing family tree...

This Tribal Pages site was started as a way to share family research and history.  I thank my own  Grandparents (James Paterson Noble & Margaret Brady) who shared so many stories (of Scotland &  Ireland, and at my request labeled so many old photos on my rainy day visits so many years ago in  Florida and for the few old news clippings they had from the other side. To my Great Aunt Alice  (Brady) McEvoy and her daughter Peggy (McEvoy) Fitzgerald who after a trip to Ireland wrote down  multiple generations of Aunts, Uncles and Cousins on the Brady and Fitzsimon's lines of County  Cavan, Ireland.

My Great uncle Felix Gerard's wife my great aunt Helen, who as a young bride spent so much time  with her mother-in-law (my Great-grandmother Mary Dominicia {Yocca/Iocca} Gerard ) and again had or  could confirm stories, names and places on the other side (Italy). Cousin Ginger (another Mary  Gerard) who found the old Italian records in the attic of the family home on Capital Heights in  Oyster Bay.

My grandmother Doris Marion Cameron Cross, who like my other grandparents let me constantly ask  questions, shared stories and a few old photos....  and her mother Alice Cameron Cross who had  given her grandson, my dad the great photos of her in-laws (George Cross & Hannah Thursfield in  Birmingham, England; and of her husband Albert John Cross in uniform in both Cape Town, South  Africa during the Boer War and later in Canada.

Patricia Mary Cross, our go to expert who has spent a lifetime researching our Cross Family  ancestors.

Patricia Gould who told me once that she only picked up where her father left off in  researching the Thursfield lines (she has done a lot more than that)...

To _______?________, doing the volunteer church records' restoration and filming project in  Gloucestershire, England who took the Cross/--?--/--?-- and --?-- family lines back another hundred  years.

To Paul Zelus, for his sharing of years of research in Calascio & Rocco Calascio, L'Aquila,  Abruzzo, Italy, his guidance which has helped me around a few seemingly dead ends; and his web site  thru which I was able to confirm my LDS records research, to expand on my Great-grandmother's Iocca  and Matarelli family lines, confirm that I am related to all of his featured families on his web  site and make better use of the LDS Italian records' data bases (maybe at a dead end now because  the older records are in Latin or just really hard to read).

To Aunt Helen aka Helen Elizabeth ( m/s Thomas ) Smith, she is the first person to thank as Mary  and I begin to research an add to my wife's father's family tree and the: Thomas ( Tomazewski )  Susse, Luck ( Lueck / Lucke ), Kohler (Koehler) lines...! Aunt Helen's copies of photos &  documents, notes and a family tree to get things jump started .... To be continued ....!

And to my mother-in-law Mary Thomas  ( a/k/a Mary Barbara Zarb ), for her stories, help on my son's  for school family tree so many years ago, which provided the clues as to who and where to start  looking...From MALTA to CORFU and ...  and the maybe not so crazy stories ( of now confirmed Greek.. ! and yet to be / maybe Armenian ..?  ancestors ) of my wife's grandmother ( Maria Xuereb ), passed down to her from her own parents and grandparents .... 

......? ? ? ?  .... and was that ancestral Ship Captain (Giovanni Montana ?) on the Maltese Marriage Certificate of his daughter (Virginia), who says he sails from Malta but called Gibraltar home, was he also known as Ship Captain Juan Montoya and/or Ship Captain John Mountain ?  ?  ?  ?   IDK ..?    

I Will keep digging...  Happy Hunting to All....  

To be continued ...!

........................  to be continued....!  Thanks to everybody who helps and cares ......!!!