Of course it's confusing if you want to decipher all information. And separate the right from the wrong.
You have from good source that a Domenico Vassallo made a foundation in 1654.
As you said, it's a foundation in order to give dowry to people. Many foundation was made in that purpose.
In parallel, there are two wills from two different Domenico, dates in 1654. These 2 Domenico had children.
In notary record there isn't directly an act for the creation of a foundation.
The standard case is that the person, in his will, will said that a foundation has to be made.
Unfortunatly, the records in Adami are not an exact transcription but just a sum up.
So sometimes there are important missing information.
Like in my article https://en.geneanum.com/malta/documents/...thers.html where in the ADAMI record there is only the universal heir. But in the original there is much more related people.
Do you have the copy of the foundation ?
Domenico is a priest on it ?
The foundation concerned a specific parish ?
The foundation concern only the relatives ? Sometimes it's a foundation for the poor families that couldn't afford dowry.
I think the big step is to find if the Domenico in the foundation is one (or not) of the two Domenico.
In the Curia archives, no trace of VASSALLO before 1647 ?
I will post the matching wills in a future answer
N.
You have from good source that a Domenico Vassallo made a foundation in 1654.
As you said, it's a foundation in order to give dowry to people. Many foundation was made in that purpose.
In parallel, there are two wills from two different Domenico, dates in 1654. These 2 Domenico had children.
In notary record there isn't directly an act for the creation of a foundation.
The standard case is that the person, in his will, will said that a foundation has to be made.
Unfortunatly, the records in Adami are not an exact transcription but just a sum up.
So sometimes there are important missing information.
Like in my article https://en.geneanum.com/malta/documents/...thers.html where in the ADAMI record there is only the universal heir. But in the original there is much more related people.
Do you have the copy of the foundation ?
Domenico is a priest on it ?
The foundation concerned a specific parish ?
The foundation concern only the relatives ? Sometimes it's a foundation for the poor families that couldn't afford dowry.
I think the big step is to find if the Domenico in the foundation is one (or not) of the two Domenico.
In the Curia archives, no trace of VASSALLO before 1647 ?
I will post the matching wills in a future answer
N.