Midwife Scribing Saturday ~ The Birth of My Great Grandfather

The next record in the Farindola records mentioning midwife Maria Giuseppa Marcella was the birth of my great grandfather Cesidio Marcella who was born on February 11, 1995 in Case Bruciate in Farindola.

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Translation –

Number 20 of the Book of Births of the Commune of Farindola (1895):

The year 1895, day 13, of February at the 11^th hour, in the municipal house.

In front of me Paolo Colaiezzi Assessiore, Civil State Official of the Comune of Farindola, there appears Maria Giuseppa Marcella, of 48 years, midwife, living in Farindola, that admits to me that on the 15^th hour, in the 15^th minute, of the 11^th day of the current month, in house address Casa Bruciate, number (blank), to Elisabetta Russi (Rossi) wife of Filippo Marcella, with whom she resides.

There was born a baby of the masculine sex that she presents to me and who has been named Cesidio.

To the above in this document were present the witnesses Angelo Ferromossa, of 38 years, tailor, and Quirico Cirone, of 52 years, contadino, both residents of this commune.

The registrant announced that the birth above is provided by the aforementioned, explained in the action that the husband of Russi (Rossi) is ill.

The act has been read to all that are present, because the attendees are illiterate, under signed by:

(P Colaiezzi)

In the Margin:  Addition to record – day 7/1/1980, died in Chester USA, act no. 1, (atto di morte Farindola 1981) Pescara, 7/12/1983, signed the Cancelliere of Farindola.

I translated this record in 2016. An image of his birth record can be found in my previous post below:

https://cinziarosasdescendantsblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/on-this-day-in-1895-in-case-bruciate/

Midwife Scribing Saturday ~ Maria Carmina Colangeli

The next midwife in this line follows down to the next generation to Maria Carmina Colangeli, daughter of midwife Maria Carmina Crocetta and grand daughter of midwife Maria Carmina Collalto. She was the sister of my fourth great grandfather Berardino Colangeli.

Maria Carmina Colangeli was born around 1762 and I have only been able to find two records where she was mentioned. The following transcription is from the Farindola Book of Births from 1809 and is record number 37. Please note I am using the spelling of surnames and place names as they were exactly written on the record.

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Number 37, Today is the 11th day of the month of May of the present year 1809 at the hours of eleven. Appearing before the mayor of this municipality, la Signora Maria Carmina daughter of Sabbatino Colangeli, from this municipality, living in the country in Casabrugiata number _____

She presents a female baby that she says in the daughter of Anna Nicola Colangeli, from the legitimate marriage with the deceased Massimantonio Ciarma, who is living in this municipality in contrada Casabbruggiata. She was born on day 10 of May of the previous night and the aforementioned is named

Angela Rosaria

and to the act mentioned, Maria Carmina, undersigned in the presence of the Signor mayor, and two testifiers Berardino Cirone and Giovanni Marzola

the original is preserved by me in the present registry. And for execution of the law, the inscription in this present book:

Sign of the cross [Maria Carmina Colangeli}

Signed Berardino Cirone Giovanni Marzola

Donato Di Francesco, Mayor

The next midwife in the line skips a generation.

HAVE A WONDERFUL MOTHER’S DAY!

Midwife Scribing Saturday ~ Maria Carmina Collato, 1810

1810 is the year of the last chronological record I could find that referenced Maria Carmina in Farindola. She either passed away in another town or moved away to live with another relative. Her husband Eggidio Colangelo had passed in 1781. This birth record was made at the town hall by my ancestor in her capacity of midwife, because the father of the child could not do so, due to his incarceration, which is noted in the record.

Number 11, Folio 6 1810, Farindola Nati

Today is the 11th of the month of January of the present year 1810 at the 15th hour.

In front of me, my charge, the Registry of the Civil Records, is appearing Signora Maria Collalto, 65 years, living in Cupoli Villa in this commune, presenting a baby of the masuline sex, born in her presence to Signora Anna Antonia Frattarola, wife of Gesualdo Di Juliis, inmate, at the hour 23 of the 10th day of the month of January.

And the formal declaration having been made and signed in our presence and by the witnesses who are Signore Domenico Del Priore of 50 years, profession artist, living in this commune in Rione della Pisciarella, and Signore Sabatino Intermesoli, of 36 years, profession contadino, living in this communue in Rione della Croceira,

Which is originally preserved in view of the present register, when seeing the following, the name

Antonio

was imposed on the child. And for execution of the Law, the present inscription is made.

Signed: Berardino Cirone Sindaco (Mayor)

Nicola Carusi Cancelliere (Chancellor)*

*Also our ancestor.

The image of this record in Italian can be found here: http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/v/Archivio+di+Stato+di+Pescara/Stato+civile+napoleonico/Farindola/Nati/1810/6728/007693046_00323.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=0

The next generation in the midwife line follows to Maria Carmina Collalto’s daughter-in-law Maria Carmina Crocetta, my fifth great grandmother.

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Midwife Scribing Saturday ~ Maria Carmina Collalto 1787

My sixth great grandmother Maria Carmina Collalto was born around 1730 in Abruzzo. She is recorded in baptismal and birth records in Farindola as a midwife. She married Eggidio Colangelo and they had at least five children: Rosa, Sabbatino, Antonio, Salvatore, and Massimo Antonio. I theorize she may be from Penne, Pescara due to her surname being the same name as one of the frazione of Penne and the fact that at least one of her children lived there.

For the next several Saturdays I will be transcribing the records I have located that pertain to her practice. Then I will move on to the next midwife, her daughter-in-law. There is a line of midwives from Maria Carmina going down the tree to the midwife that delivered my great grandfather.

The baptismal records mentioning Maria Carmina are transcribed into the town’s civil records from the church’s records and are online at Antenati. These proofs of birth were needed at the time the civil marriage record was made. (I am translated these half-Italian/half-Latin records the best I can.)

1815 Matrimoni Processetti #5, Farindola –

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My certificate, Arch Priest of San Nicola di Bari of land of Farindola, from the requisite book of this church which is annotated the following ———————————-

The first day of May 1787, Farindola, Berardino*, born of married Sabbatino Colangelo* and Maria Carmina Crocetta, citizens of Penne, baptized by me, Arch Priest Curate, San Nicola di Bari and font immersion (Godmother) by Angela Maria, widow of Donato Chiucchi, resident here, midwife Maria Carmina, mother of mentioned Sabbatino, Antonio Salvitti, Archpriest.

*Berardino is my fourth great grandfather and Sabbatino is my fifth great grandfather.

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The 1817 Typhus Outbreak and Famine of Abruzzo and My Family Tree – Part 4 ~ Antonio Chiarella, Age 71

My sixth great grandfather Antonio Chiarella was born around 1746 in Penne, Abruzzo to Michele Chiarella and Anna Chiara Colangeli* and died in early May of 1817 in Farindola, likely from typhus.

I know very little about him.  He is considered “new” to my tree, because I have only recently found him.  He is the only smith I have found to date on my paternal side.  His address is listed as Fonte Marotta in Farindola on at least two records.

His wife was from Farindola and was named Laura Marzola.  Her death record implies she was significantly older than Antonio, close to 20 years older.  It makes you wonder if Antonio’s age or Laura’s age was incorrect on civil records.  Laura passed in 1813 and her husband was the first person listed on the record giving testimony about the death.

Antonio had at least two children.  (There may be more I have not yet located.) So far I have found son Bernardo, and daughter Maria, who was my 5th great grandmother.  Antonio’s children were already starting their own families when he passed on May 9, 1817.

Bernardo was a smith like his father and married Beatrice Falconetti.

Maria was born around 1776 in Penne according to her death record.  She is also one of the midwives in my tree.  She married Sabatino Di Massimo.  One of their sons, named Serafino Vincenzo, married a lacemaker from Montebello di Bertona named Angela Maria Cecilia Colangeli*, making them the great grandparents of my great grandmother Luigia Maria Massei.

* I have many Colangelis in my tree.  They don’t seem to be closely related to each other.

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1809 Farindola Matrimoni

1809 Farindola Matrimoni (Marriages) via Antenati

 

1. May 14, Salvatore D’Angelo, contadino, 24
Figlio di Vincenzo D’Angelo and Maria Capitanio
Marries Angela Rubina, 23
Figlia di Giovanni Nostrianni and Alesandrina Cardone
Test: Berardino Cirone, Vincenzo Carusi*

2. May 25, Massimo Antonio Nostriani, contadino, 25
Figlio di Michele Nostriani, Teresiana Cardone
Marries Rosalina di Bartolomeo, 22
Figlia di Giuseppe Di Bartolomeo and fu Grazia Cavalle
Test: Antonio Di Vico and Vincenzo Carusi

3. June 10, Donato Iannascoli*, contadino, 31
Figlio di Pasqaule Iannascoli* and Anna Silvania Di Risio*
Marries Carmina Paolini, 23
Figlia di Paolo Paolini and Anna Zopita Puccelli
Test: Fedelangelo Cirone, Paolo Carusi*

4. July 3, Saverio Nostriani, contadino, 29
Figlio di Giovanni Nostriani and Alesandrina Cardone
Marries Elisabetta Di Bartolomeo, Cupoli, 18
Figlia di Elenterio Di Bartolomeo, and Anna Rosa di Vico
Test: Fedelangelo Cirone, Saverio Cotellucci

5. September 21, Michele Risdonio, contadino, 26, Farindola
Figlio di Pasquale Risdonio and Caterina Pompili
Marries Giovanna Lacchetta, 26, Farindola
Figlia di Giuseppe Lacchetta and Florenza Lucerini
Test: Domenico Cirone and Filippo Frattarola

6. September 21, Blasio Basile, contadino, 30, Farindola
Figlio di fu Pietro and Costanza D’Angelo
Marries Donata Lepore, 32, Farindola
Figlia di Alfonzo Lepore and Domenica Paolini
Test: Vincenzo Carusi* and Sabbatino Pompili

7. September 28, Benedetto Cirone*, contadino, 32, Farindola
Figlio di Fabrizio Cirone* and Anna Saveria Lizza*
Marries Domenica Pompili, 23, Farindola
Figlia di Nicolantonio Pompili and Elenteria Iannascoli
Test: Vincenzo Carusi*, Fedelangelo Cirone

8. November 30, Francesco Di Bartolomeo, contadino, 48, Cupoli
Figlio di fu Stefano Di Bartolomeo and fu Marta Frattarola
Marries Maria Nicola Colangeli*, 29, Casabruciata
Fligia di Sabbatino Colangeli*, Maria Crocetta*
Test: Domenico Cirone and Filippo Frattaroli

9. November 30, Pietro Paolo Frattarola, 21, Cupoli
Figlio di Berardino Frattarola and Giovanna D’Agostino
Marries Angela Dea Collatto, 21, Cupoli
Figlia di Francesco Collatto and fu Domenica Iannascoli
Test: Filippo Frattarola and Fedelangelo Cirone

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #5: At the Library ~ Il Brigantaggio Farindolesi e Mia Famiglia/The Brigandage Farindolesi and My Family ~

This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is At the Library.  I have been lucky enough to find a treasure of a book on the history of one of my main Italian ancestral villages in Abruzzo online at the website:  www.gelsumino.it.  The book is called Storia di Farindola, Dalle Origini ai Giorni Nostri by Antonio Procacci.  Since my family has lived in Farindola for centuries and my immediate family left Farindola less than 100 years ago, I was ecstatic.

There is a chapter in the book called “Il Brigantaggio/The Brigandage”.  I found quite a few ancestors and relatives mentioned in this chapter, specifically in the time period the author referred to as being the most violent in Farindola – the years 1805 to 1810.  The author clearly pointed out that this is during the time of French dominion over Italy, under Giuseppe Napoleone and Gioacchino Marat, and that some of the brigands were veterans of the fight to keep the French out of Abruzzo.

Please note, my translations of what I read are to the best of my ability, and that I am mentioning which page I took the information from as I write this post, and that I hope to provide accurate information to you.

In 1799 when the French left Teramo, these 100 or so soldiers returned home.  It is believed that these returning soldiers became “political brigands,” who in turn, joined the  factions of the “common brigands” already active in the country-side of Farindola for over a century. (page 36) 

 

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Two of these veterans, I believe are either cousins or a degree of uncles to me: Massimantonio Marcella and Nicola Pompili. (page 35)

Massimantonio Marcella

Massimantonio Marcella was well-known friend to bandit leaders, his house was a meeting place for them, and he was believed by authorities to have been the go-between that engaged in bribes for protection from the Guardia Urbana di Farindola (Urban Guards of Farindola), of whom the Comandata (Commander) was my 6th great grandfather Paolo Carusi.  (page 40, page 42)

This previous post relates some data I have collected on Paolo: Paolo Carusi, Writer and Landowner, Brother to a Conte.  Because this current post is an update to that  previous post, there is a link in that post to this one.

Massimantonio was also presumed to be the man one would seek out to gain protection from authorities in Penne and the other small villages surrounding it.  The author noted, Massimantonio Marcella was said to be close to the infamous brigand leader from Penne named Mascierelle and the brigand leader from Farindola Giovanni Sergiacomo dei Colli.  Testimony referred their relationships as compare. (page 42-43) 

Based on the naming patterns in my tree, and because some shootouts between French authorities and the brigands in Farindola took place at Contrada Trosciano, where Massimantonio lived, and was also the home of my early 19th century ancestors, I am taking a wild guess that there is a possibility that Massimantonio Marcella was the uncle of my 3rd great grandfather Massimonicola Marcella.  This is just a guess, however, I am sure there is a blood connection.

Paolo Carusi, my 6th great grandfather and

Nicola Carusi, my 5th great grandfather

More on the Guardia Urbana ~  This force were formed in 1808 by French authorities because of il brigantaggio in the Farindola environs.  The French appointed my 6th great grandfather Paolo Carusi the commander of the Farindola forces.  According to the Storia di Farindola, and if my translation is correct, he commanded the other urban guards – 12 French soldiers.  (page 40)

The book tells me that on May 11, 1807, a group of brigands got into a firefight with the Guardia Urbana in Farindola.  Because the villagers feared looting, they gave up the brigands and under the order of the son of Paolo Carusi, the French soldiers followed the brigands to their hideouts.  In fear for his life and that of his family’s, the son of Paolo fled with them to nearby Penne, leaving behind his business and property.  Paolo Carusi wrote to the French General Chavardes who then sent his son 15 days of rations while they hid out. (page 41)

Based on my research in the Farindola civil records on Antenati, that son of Paolo, and the only son married with children in 1807, was my 5th great grandfather, the future Cancelliere of the Comune di Farindola, Nicola Carusi.  Interestingly, Nicola died young!  At age 40 in 1817.  The civil records do not give a cause of death.  1817 was a year of famine in Abruzzo but he was a wealthy man.  It was also the year of a typhoid epidemic.  Is that why he died?  

Candeloro Salvitti, my 5th great grand uncle

The chapter also mentioned that a man was murdered on June 30, 1807.  He was my 34 year old, 5th great grand uncle Candeloro Salvitti.  (page 42)

According to my tree, Candeloro was also the brother of the father of the future mayor of Farindola, Donato Salvitti. 

Domenico Damiani, my 5th great grandfather

I was nearing the end of this very informative chapter when the author was mentioning that the Brigantaggio was winding down towards 1809 and 1810 and how the old leaders in hiding were still carrying out vendettas against those in Farindola that had betrayed them, and that such happened the night of January 9, 1810 when three men of the same family were murdered.  They were Domenico, Nicola, and Donato Damiani.   (page 44-45)

This rang a bell with me because I remembered seeing three death records in a row for three men of the same last name and I had figured it was an illness!  HA!  The name Domenico Damiani also rang a bell.  So I went to my tree and sure enough, I had an ancestor with that name and oh boy, yes, he died January 9, 1810 and by the way, Domenico Damiani, was my 5th great grandfather.

Donato and Nicola Damiani were brothers and were Domenico’s uncles.  My 5th great grandfather Domenico was married to Laura Rosa.  Besides leaving behind my 5th great grandmother, he also left behind three young children, and a teenager.  (More on Laura Rosa and Domenico Damiani at a later date!)  According to the death records I found in the civil records Antenati, all three men lived in the countryside at Contrada Della Valchiera.  Does that translate to Valkyrie?

I want to mention that my 5th great grandfather’s signature, Nicola Carusi (the same man mentioned above), is at the bottom of those three records as the Cancelliere, and that the same two men, Domenico Rosa and Tommaso Basile were informants on all three death records.

Other Potential Relations

Finally, these are some other names in this chapter that are likely some form of relation to me:

• Tommaso Iannascoli, Cesidio Colella, and Giovanni Frattarola were among 20 accused brigands in the Penne area in December 1806 and were from Farindola.  Tommaso Iannascoli was hung at contrada della Piano della Fonte on January 15, 1808. (page 40)
• 4 murdered on the night of June 4, 1807 were brothers Antonio and Nicola Pompili, and Francesco Di Francesco and his wife Anna Saveria (Basilicati).  (page 41)
• 4 were murdered during the month of July, 1807, including Jacopantonio De Rizio. (page 42)
• Murdered on September 20, 1807 was Giovanni Battista Pompili, brother of the men killed on June 4, 1807. (page 42)
• Vincenzantonio Lepore was hung at contrada della Piano della Fonte on January 15, 1808. (page 42)
• On February 27, 1808 Domenicantonio Frattarola sopranome Cipranne and Orazio Cervo were shot and killed. (page 42)
• On March 23, 1808, brigand Ambrosio Frattarola was arrested. (page 43)
• In April 1808, a small band of brigands got into a firefight with French soldiers in Trosciano (an area where my ancestors lived.)  Killed were Filippo di Simone and Giovanni Colangeli. (page 43)
• In May 1809, Giuseppe Frattarola was arrested for murder. (page 43)
• On August 1, 1809, an award was launched for the information and capture of famous robbers Sabatino Marcella, Saverio Marcucci, and brothers Sabatino and Gesualdo De Juliis.  (page 44)
• I also read that in 1809, the local occupying French Major Cochet was murdered at age 40 as an act of revenge, and buried without sacraments, according to Storia di Farindola. It is believed the murder was carried out by those avenging the arrest and hanging of the leader of the Dell’Orso family from Farindola. I have several known Dell’Orso ancestors. How does the hung man connect to me? I don’t know right now and they are only referenced as a family in this chapter and not by their first names like in my tree.  (page 40-41)
• Lastly, on March 5, 1815, the L’Intendente della Provincia di Teramo sent a message to the mayor of Farindola that only one brigand was still on the run.  He was, the aforementioned, Sabatino Marcella. (page 45)  Note – 1815 was the last year of the French occupation.

WHAT AN INFORMATIVE BOOK!  

Sources:

Storia di Farindola, Dalle Origini ai Giorni Nostri by Antonio Procacci ,via http://www.gelsumino.it.  This blog post mentions data contained in pages 33-50.  

Antenati

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Today’s Anniversary ~ Third Great Grandparents Massimo Nicola Marcella and Maria Carolina Colangeli ~

 

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Farindola – On today’s date in 1840, my third great grandparents Massimo Nicola Marcella and Maria Carolina Colangeli were married in San Nicola di Bari, Farindola.  They were the grandparents of my immigrant great grandfather Cesidio Marcella.

Maria Carolina Colangeli was born in Farindola in 1817 to Berardino Colangelo/i and Anna Giuseppa Antonacci.  They were contadini.  During this time period, her surname fluctuated between Colangeli and Colangelo in the Farindola records.  Her mother Anna Giuseppa Antonacci was born in nearby Montebello di Bertona, Pescara in 1791.

The records of Pescara on Antenati suggest that the Colangelis were from nearby Penne, Pescara, although at the time of Maria Carolina’s birth, a branch of them were living in Farindola, for Maria Carolina’s father was born in Farindola, but his midwife mother was born in Penne.  Also, the other Colangelis in my Abruzzese tree in a separate branch were from Penne and owned property there.

Maria Carolina’s tree was heavy with midwives, and though she was listed as a spinner on several civil records on Antenati, I suspect she too was a midwife.  Her aunt, grandmother, great grandmother, and her own daughter Maria Giuseppa were all midwives.   Maria Giuseppa was there for the delivery of Cesidio.

Massimo Nicola Marcella was born in 1814 in Farindola to Giuseppe Antonio Marcella* and Maria Domenica Sciarra. They too were contadini. Maria Domenica’s parents were born in Fara San Martino, Chieti and the occupations of her father and brothers were written as lanari (wool workers/merchants) in the civil records on Antenati.

Massimo Nicola’s paternal ancestors had been living in Farindola at least as far back as a man named Donato Marcella and a lady possibly named Domenica Cervo both alive in the early 1700s in the Farindola area.  This is the farthest back I have been able to trace his surname using church death records in the marriage processetti on Antenati.  Oh to have the church records in the Diocese of Penne available to research! 

My third great grandparents had 10 children, 4 of which were two sets of female twins.  They were:

Twins Maria Domenica and Maria Giustina (twins), born in 1841.  Maria Giustina lived less than a month.  Maria Domenica lived ten years.  They were born 9 months after their parents married.

Maria Giustina, born in 1843 in Contrada da Valloni – died in 1912 in Contrada Casebruciate, married foundling Panfilo Zenone

Filippo, born in 1844 in Contrada Trosciano – died in 1916 at #137 in Contrada Trosciano, married Maria Antonia Lacchetta and Elisabetta Rossi (my ancestress)

Maria Giuseppa (midwife in Contrada Casebruciate), born in 1846 in Contrada Trosciano – died in 1918 in Contrada Casebruciate, married Giovanni Costantini

Antonio, born in Contrada Trosciano in 1847 and died in 1851

Domenico, born in 1849 in Contrada Trosciano – died in 1908 in Casebruciate, married Maria Carmina Basilavecchia

Nicolantonio, born in 1851 in Contrada Casebruciate, married Maria Giuseppa Della Valle.  They had no children.  However, a man with his name appears to have had a child in 1901 to an un-named woman who was not his wife.  The child was named Vittoria Marcella.

Twins Serafina and Maria Domenica born in 1854 in Contrada Trosciano.  Maria Domenica married Vincenzo Di Silvestri.  Serafina married Antonio Di Francesco, who was the son of Anna Emidia Lucerini and Luigi di Francesco.  My third great grandparents on a different line!

Massimo Nicola Marcella died in 1884 in Contrada Casebruciate.  His widow Maria Carolina Colangeli died a few months shy of the birth of her grandson Cesidio in October 1894, at #65 Contrada Casebruciate, Farindola.

*I do not know how or if Giuseppe Antonio was related to the briganti with the same surname that were active in the countryside near Farindola during the Napoleonic occupation of Italy.  One of the main leaders was named Massimo.  He was jailed before the civil records start on Antenati.  (See Storia di Farindola, dalli origini ai giorni nostri by Antonio Procacci via http://www.gelsumino.it)

Sources:

Antenati San Beniculturali:

(Record #13, 1840)

(Record #13 Processetti, 1840)

FamilySearch.org

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!