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
Jallow Family · Soldier Town
4 generations“"Our grandfather came to Banjul before independence — he was a trader at the wharf."”
Generation 1
KJ
Karim Jallow
~1888 – 1968 · Saint-Louis, Senegal
Founder, trader
AM
Aja Mariama
~1895 – 1972 · Banjul
Matriarch
PO
Pa Ousman Jallow
~1890 – 1955 · Saint-Louis, Senegal
Brother of Karim, trader
Generation 2
MJ
Modou Jallow
1948 – present · Banjul
Trader, son of founder
HJ
Hawa Jallow
1942 – present · Banjul
Eldest daughter, oral keeper
Generation 3
OJ
Omar Jallow
1972 – present · Banjul
Schoolteacher
AJ
Aminata Jallow
1975 – present · Banjul
Nurse
Generation 4
BJ
Bakary Jallow
1998 – present · Banjul
University student
Cross-family connections
marriage · 1970
Jallow–Touray marriage
Jallow Family ↔ Touray Family
marriage · 1965
Njie–Jallow marriage
Njie Family ↔ Jallow Family
marriage · 1998
Sowe–Jallow marriage
Sowe Family ↔ Jallow Family
trade · 1930s–1950s
Jallow–Touray salt-fish trade
Jallow Family ↔ Touray Family
trade · 1940s–1970s
Jallow patrons of Njie griots
Jallow Family ↔ Njie Family
neighbour · always
Soldier Town neighbours
Jallow Family ↔ Touray Family
migration · echo
Echo migration
Sowe Family ↔ Jallow Family
Founder journeys
Saint-Louis, Senegal → Banjul (1922, sail boat) — Trade