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Family
Carmelo Gauci and Maria Borda had 12 children, 3 girls and 9 boys. The eldest son was George (b 1888), he joined his father Carmelo in the business and gradually enrolled all his brothers in the business except for Henry…
Generations
The first generation of Gauci Borda’s worked for the Borda firms supplying the British and other navy warships around the time of the Great War – business in Malta always flourished in times of war!
Branching
After the war they then branched out on their own away from the Borda family and commenced business as ironmongers in 1918, introducing the Gauci Borda surname as their trade name.
John Baptist Borda
Maria was the daughter of John Baptist aka Patist Borda, from Kalkara, a wealthy business man who operated as a ship chandlers in the busy port of Valletta, an activity that can trace its origins to the mid eighteenth century.…
The Beginning
The Gauci Borda family came into being through the union in marriage of Carmelo Gauci and Maria Borda in the late nineteenth century (circa1886).