MALTA: Surname Terry - is this the anglicised form of SCERRI/XERRI?

[seasider53]

I am researching my Grt Grt Grandfather, Daniel KENNEDY who married a Theresa TERRY on 01/09/1868 at the Garrison, Valetta

I have viewed other information that suggests her maiden name could be SCERRI or XERRI.  Would the register show the Anglicised version of the Maltese name?

[rosie99]

The GRO index has it as Terry so I would imagine that is how it is in the register.  The certificate would be the only way to solve this.

Where did the information that it could be Scerri/Xerri come from.

[seasider53]

Hi Rosie. I have the Marriage Cert, it shows her as Theresa TERRY, Father Thomas TERRY.

I found the other variants on Family search, all ties in with other names and dates.  I have messaged the person who has put the info on but he has not yet got back to me.

[majm]

Here in New South Wales, the surname XERRI is pronounced as though it is Sherry, so I wonder how it would morph to TERRY....

JM

[garstonite]

This is NOT your Theresa - but just to let you know that the name was on the island

https://gw.geneanet.org/ccassar88?n=xerri&oc=&p=theresa

looks like they were on the next Island as well - Gozo
https://gw.geneanet.org/ccassar88?lang=en&pz=charmaine+natalie&nz=cassar&p=giuseppe+michele+angelo&n=xerri

[Muriel MSIDA]

Could you give us a little bit more info, please ?
I have a Thomas John / John Thomas TERRY in my files who has been married 3 times !

[Muriel MSIDA]

There were some TERRY in Malta who came from England.
I have a Lt Col Robert TERRY, Town Adjutant of Malta who married twice (2nd time around 1830) and all his children were born in Malta between 1832 and 1842.
But no Thomas/John in that family, as far as I know...