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Maria Michela Sabatino was born at Strada Napolitano in Sirico, Campania, Italy to Santa Di Conza and Gioacchino Sabatino at the 6:00 in the morning. Sirico is about 5 miles away from Mount Vesuvius. Maria Michela was the mother of Filomena Napolitano, my immigrant second great grandmother.
At the time of her birth, Gioacchino was a tailor. Her mother was not from Sirico. She came from San Valentino di Sarno, which may be San Valentino Torio in Salerno. Unfortunately, I can not confirm that because neither San Valentino Torio nor Sarno have the Di Conza surname in their registers on Antenati, and her birth occurred before civil records started. When Santa Di Conza died in 1829 at the age of 44, her mother’s surname was listed as Petillo. That surname is also not in the registers for San Valentino Torio or Sarno.
Below is the heavily damaged birth record of my third great grandmother, who was born on August 8, 1809. She was a Leo.
Sirico Nati 1809:
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This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks theme is At Work. For this theme I chose to focus on my 5th great grandfather Antonio Marotta, a trash collector/trash dump worker. He was part of a family I strongly believe to be Zingari//Gypsies.
How does he relate to me? Antonio Marotta is the great grandfather of my immigrant second great grandmother from Nola, Napoli, Filomena Napolitano Ferraro,
Antonio Marotta was born around 1740, likely in Campania, to Giacomo Marotta and a lady possibly named Girolama Stellato.
There Marottas were living in Nola in the first half of the 1800s and appeared in the civil records as horse wagon drivers or trainieri, in the Neapolitan language. Sometimes the word used for them was traignante. Antonio lived in the Navaretta neighborhood of Nola in 1811. His brothers and nephews were referred to as traignante in the Nola records on Antenati. To speed up my finding of his family, I searched the indexes for Nola for anyone with that profession, regardless of their surname. It paid off, because they were all related in some way or another. Some of them married those with the Napolitano surname in Nola or had a close relationship to males with menial labor professions in Nola.
I even found a trainiero in the death records whose name was unknown because, according to my translation from Italian, “he died in disgrace and his family didn’t wish to identify him!” Could he be my relative? Maybe. Additionally, I came across several signatures of some of the Marottas in the records in Nola. They spelled their surname as Marotto.
So naturally, since Antonio had his own wagon, I found him referred to as a mondezzaio or trash collector/trash dump worker on his daughter’s death record in 1821. I researched the history of trash dumps and trash collectors for this week’s theme. Trash collection was and still is a Zingaro occupation in some parts of Europe. The trash collector would be paid to take away trash. He could peddle some of it if he chose, haul it to a pit to be buried, burn it in a pit, or in some cases, the trash collector would dump the trash in a body of water.
Antonio was married to my 5th great grandmother Giulia Notaro and they had at least three children: Rosa – born about 1775, Gennaro, and Fortunata – a fruit peddler. Rosa is my ancestress. She married Antonio Camillo Pasquale Napolitano and was the mother of Carmine Napolitano – Filomena’s father.
Like her husband Antonio, the origin of Giulia Notaro is also unknown. She was likely born about 1750 somewhere in Campania, and according to her death record from 1818, her father was Francesco Notaro and her mother was Teresa Parziale. Giulia was a lacemaker by trade.
Antonio ended up outliving Giulia who passed away in 1818. He died on May 7, 1829, while living at Strada Sant’Anna, Nola, at the age of 92. If he was 92 in 1829, he would have been 84 in 1821 while working as a trash man. Coincidentally, daughter Rosa and her husband Antonio Napolitano lived on Strada Sant’Anna. It is very plausible Antonio was residing with my fourth great grandparents at the time of his death. His son Gennaro remains a mystery to me. I am unsure if he even married.
The nephews and great nephews of Antonio Marotta moved up the chain some, because, by the 1850s and early 1860s Nola Civil records, they are found with the profession of making wagons for a wealthy landowner.
I wish I knew more about Antonio’s wife’s family the Notaros at this time. That is something for future research!
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Romani/Zingari surnames: Napolitano, Marotta, Criscuolo
Possible Romani/Zingari surnames: Trocciola, Sepe, Stellato, Notaro, Parziale
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