cumbo etymology

This for anyone wondering about the title or the picture behind it:

This tower as it stands today was built around the 19th century and derives its name from the ‘Cumbo’ family which used to reside in it.

It turns out the Cumbo name comes from Malta, or at least that's where we originally made our bones. All the most famous Cumbos are from there...excepting the most recent iterations, of course. You can read more about it here if you are so inclined, although this is certainly the most interesting part:

One version says that in 1526, Marianna was engulfed in last-minute preparations to betroth Toni, a young member of the powerful Manduca family. While she was at the Tower, the corsairs of the Barbary Coast, helped by a former slave in the service of the Cumbo family, broke into Marianna’s residence and carried her off into captivity. Toni, her husband-to-be found out that his beloved was taken to Tripoli. Thus, posing as a wool merchant, he went to that city to rescue her. This he managed to do, but due to her vicissitudes in slavery, his dear Marianna died soon after she reached Malta, mourned by the whole population.

...and of course, the "Irish" part of the name is because I'm half Irish, from the Gannon family.