Maltese Surnames

Most interesting article about Maltese Surnames at
http://www.geneanum.com/malte/documents/genealogie/les-patronymes-maltais.html

It is in French but your browsers translator should handle it no problem.

the article containsa table of the frequency of Maltese Surnames which shows that abhout 25 percent of the Maltese population are named Borg.


I have copied the table below:


BORG is leading the Past ... a Maltese on 25 carries this name.
Following: VELLA , FARRUGIA, Camilleri and Zammit
The table below provides the prizes for first 120 names:

1	BORG	21	CALLEJA	41	AZZOPARDI	61	BONELLO	81	CILIA	101	PULLICINO
2	VELLA	22	PORTELLI	42	Psaila	62	FORMOSA	82	CURMI	102	AXIS
3	FARRUGIA	23	GATT	43	VASSALLO	63	CASHA	83	Teuma	103	GAFA
4	CAMILLERI	24	GRIMA	44	ZAHRA	64	Ciantar	84	GRIST	104	BAJADA
5	ZAMMIT	25	Bugeja	45	Saliba	65	ZERAFA	85	BALZAN	105	Pulis
6	GRECH	26	MALLIA	46	CACHIA	66	TONNA	86	AZZOPARDI	106	Abdille
7	GALEA	27	MIZZI	47	Azzopardi	67	DALLI	87	DINGLE	107	GRECH / GREG
8	CARUANA	28	BUSUTTIL	48	MAGRO	68	CHETCUTI	88	SAyDS	108	Fiten
9	AGIUS	29	Sammut	49	MANGION	69	FRENDO	89	CAMENZULI	109	GERADA
10	CASSAR	30	ABELA	50	BARBARA	70	Darmanin	90	PARNES	110	CASSIA
11	ATTARD	31	GAUCI	51	MAMO	71	BONAVIA	91	CUMBO	111	RIZZO
12	MICALLEF	32	FALZON	52	BARTOLO	72	TANTI	92	CREMONA	112	CORDINA
13	MIFSUD	33	Xerri	53	Bezzina	73	CALLUS	93	ABEJ	113	DELIA
14	SPITERI	34	XICLUNA	54	XUEREB	74	SANT	94	CATANIA	114	Ciappara
15	PACE	35	BUTTIGIEG	55	ZARB	75	FELICI	95	CARDONA	115	Coleiro
16	MUSCAT	36	CAUCHI	56	Cutajar	76	DE BRINCAT	96	Cuschieri	116	SULTANA
17	BONNICI	37	AQUILINA	57	BUHAGIAR	77	Briffa	97	CINI	117	Bigen
18	FENECH	38	ELLUL	58	DIMECH	78	CHIRCOP	98	GALDI	118	Stival
19	SCHEMBRI	39	TABONE	59	MERCIECA	79	PISANO	99	SACCO	119	SOLTANI
20	Debono	40	Xiberras	60	BALDACCHINO	80	SEICHEL	100	REFALO	120	XIRIHA

George Van Dusen

George Van Dusen.

Born Albert Thomas Harrington 19^th April 1905, in St. George in the East, London, the son of Albert and Augusta Harrington

His musical heritage was as the grandson of Alphons Eder a lifelong street musician in East London . http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1500285617

He was generally known as Tommy in the family, presumably to differentiate him from his father. He is not listed with family at Pennington Street, Stepney on the 1911 census, but it may well be that he was in hospital at the time, as it is known that he contracted polio as a child.

George had a long a successful career on the music hall stage generally appearing as “The Great Dutch Yodeller”. He adopted a quasi dutch clothing of smock, cap and baggy trousers, which was probably to disguise the surgical boot he wore as a result of the polio.

George Van Dusen's recordings were amongst the best sellers of the 1930s. He also appeared regularly on BBC radio variety programmes from as early as 1932. He wrote many of his own songs under the pen name Fred Farrell, as well as adapting older tunes, although he freely admitted that he could not read music, composing his numbers with the aid of a mouth organ.

During the 1980's George Van Dusen was "rediscovered" and his song “It's Party Time Again” was in the pop record charts, in December 1988, remixed with a disco beat. The story was that an old copy of one of his records was picked up by a record company producer from a second hand stall in Charing Cross Road, however this may well be just myth.

Another version is that the find was by the producer of the Terry Wogan radio programme and subsequently Terry plugged the song in his show.
He appeared on the Terry Wogan TV show later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsBOJYTGTw

George continued to appear on stage at charity concerts and the like until well into his 80's, even though by that time he was confined to a wheelchair.

His recordings included:

Mountain High

Holiday Time is Jollity Time

Murphy’s Wedding Day

The Warbling Yodeller

A wee drap o’ Scotch

The Yodelling Cowboy

The Yodelling chinaman

The Yodelling Accordeon Man

Yodelling Izzy

The Yodelling Huntsman

The Yodelling Farmer

Yodelling Banjo Player

It’s Holiday Time Again

The Yodelling Mouth Organ Player

Mountain Melodies

Knees Up Yodelling Song

Warbling and Yodelling

The Yodelling Sailor

The Yodelling Wanderer

Polosky’s Russian Party

Yodelling Tommy Atkins

The Yodelling Toreador

Come along Liza, Come along Bill

It’s Party Time again

Yodelling Working Man

Yodelling Sergeant Major

Smile Smile Smile

Izzie,izzie,izzie

Yiddisher Yodeller

In 1937 he took an action in the High Court for infringement of copyright for his songs “Mountain refrain”, “Yodelling blacksmith”, “Yodelling Soloman” and an arrangement of “Silver threads among the Gold”. He was only successful in respect of the first song and was awarded five guineas damages.

He died in 1992 in Enfield, at the age of 87.