SNkaLOGICAL RECORDS I
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 THM ,G5IRA PAIIYLY

.DOM~ICO GHCIR, the founder of this family in America, came
to this country from Italy, landing at Boston, Mass., Au-
gust 19, 1840. He was born at Rovonio, Austria, on the 19th
day of March, 1816. He came to Tampa in the year 1849, and'
continued to reside in this city until the day of his death,
on Lay 22, 1897.
 Though of the same nationality, he did not meet his
 wife in the Old Country, but made her acquaintance on this
 side of the water. The maiden name of the lady who after-
 wards became the wife of Domenico Ghira was Domanica Masters.
 Sh was born at St. Augustine, Florida. They were married
 in Tampa in 1850.
 :Mr. Ghira in early life engaged in seafaring pursuits,i
 and afte:r.Jards conducted a mercantile business in Tampa for
 many years, in which ho was very successfE1l.
 In the course of his long residence in-this city ho
acquired the o anership of several pieces of vory valuable
,real estate 1hi;oh, with the growth of the city and the re-
sulting increase in values, brought about the accumulation
of a considerable fortune in his hands and left his family
in comfortable circumstances at his death.
 Domenico Ghira and Domenica (Masters) Ghira, his wife,
 were the parents of six children: namely,
 (1) Paul, who died at the age of sixteen years.
 (2) Mary, who died after attaining og yung womanhood.
 (3) Erancis, who also died unmarried after reaching


maturity.


 (4) Suphemia, who married Patrick Kelliher. They hav4
 had no children.
 (5) Josephine, who married Alfred H. Parslow, a native
 of the county, of Kent, England. r. Parslow came to Tampa
 in connection with the promoters of the building of the Jac-
 sonville, Tampa and Key West railroad, one cf the earliest
 enterprises of the kind projected. It was surveyed nearly |
 on the line of the present Atlantic Coast Line from Jacksonj
 ville along the St. Johns river to Sanford and thence to
 STampa via Orlando, Kissimnee and Lakeland.
 Upon the merger of this enterprise with others and the
a extinguishing of its interests, Mr. Parslow remained in Taa
and engaged in other pursuits. He was a talented writer I
and contributed largely and frequently to the solumns of tm
local press. He was an architect by profession and was une
of the first to engage in that business in Tampa. He mad
the plans for the Spanish sanitarium on the Boulevard, th
for nearly all of the principal oigar factories among those
lereeLe iisa e-earlie dfor mnay-of-the- e ft1
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