Born Giuseppe 13th November 1910 in Xaghra, born in Vittoria hospital in Rabat - see his Birth certificate

Went to school only for 6 months

Started working from the time he was 13 years old in Malta in a bakery

Before the bakery he had a market stall

Giuseppe father died when Giuseppe was 41 years old in 1951, and his mother died when he was 65 years old

Giuseppe worked in Valletta from Monday to Saturday then spent weekends in Gozo

Giuseppe would work and send money back home to his mother Caterina

Giuseppe was a skilled craftesman, carving stone as a stone lace maker

His work included many decorations in many different buildings, Churches, Government offices, theatres, and important buildings in and around Malta and Gozo. His work can be found in the Lyceum Theatre in Hamrun in Valletta city; in the Dragonaru Hotel in Malta; Xaghra church around the Madonna copula

He was taught to cut stone by his friend from Valletta

He and his brother Toni went into the army as volunteers before WWII

However when WWII broke out, he was conscripted to join the army as a soldier fighting.. He was then 27 years old and was there for 5 years. 

He was awarded the George cross for Bravery with the rest of the Maltese. He always prayed to the Madonna ta Pinu to protect him. When the war finished the first place he went to was Ta Pinu church

When the war had ended he went back to Malta to continue his stone carving- he was 33 years old.  He was one of the finest stone carvers the country had seen and here was much work for him.

On the 1/6/72 more than 200 sacks of asbestos fell on him and broke his two legs. He was buried under the sacks for some time inhaling the asbestos. He was in hospital from 1/6/72 until 26/9/72. He never worked again. He suffered many years, with asbestos in his lungs. He was a smoker and needed to give up. Many unskilled migrants worked in this factory, and many relatives have since died from Asbestosis.