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

Sowe Family · Dobson Street

1 generation
Generation 1
BS
Buba Sowe
1951 – present · Kerewan, Senegal
Tailor, family head
Cross-family connections
marriage · 1998
Sowe–Jallow marriage
Sowe FamilyJallow Family
migration · echo
Echo migration
Sowe FamilyJallow Family
Founder journeys
Kerewan, SenegalBanjul1973 · foot, then ferry
Kerewan, SenegalBanjul (1973, foot, then ferry) — Drought