Lineage trees

Family lines, traced across centuries.

Each lineage is reconstructed from interviews, birth and death dates, and cross-family memories. Pick a family to walk its generations, the marriages and trades that bind it to its neighbours, and the journeys its founders made to reach Banjul South.

Ceesay Compound

Half Die · 2 people · 2 generations

Dibba Household

Box Bar Road · 1 person · 1 generation

Jallow Family

Soldier Town · 8 people · 4 generations

Njie Family

Soldier Town · 5 people · 3 generations

Sowe Family

Dobson Street · 1 person · 1 generation

Touray Family

Soldier Town · 5 people · 2 generations

Ceesay Compound · Half Die

2 generations
Generation 2
NC
Nyima Ceesay
1935 – present · Banjul
Midwife, oral keeper
Generation 3
LC
Lamin Ceesay
1962 – present · Banjul
Head of compound
Cross-family connections
mentor · 1960s
Midwife & fishwife friendship
Ceesay CompoundTouray Family