Alpena, or maybe Alfrena. Please help me decipher this.

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Alpena, or maybe Alfrena. Please help me decipher this.

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Just came upon my GGG grandmother's first marriage certificate. Her name is Rosina Crosetta. I can't seem to make out her place of birth on line 12.

Any suggestions?? Thanks

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There is a frazione or hamlet in the city of Pinerolo in the province of Turin (Piedmont region)called Abbadia Alpina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinerolo
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some other possibilities:

the town of Gignese has a frazione called Alpino Cignese, Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedimont region.


the town of Seppiana, in the same province and region, also has a frazione called Alpino.
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Thank you for your suggestions. If you think of any more, please list them and i will investigate.
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I believe that the surname spelling of Rosina's parents are:
CROSETTO and BURLANDO.
Rosina signed as Crosetto and not Crosetta.

"Alpena or Alfrena" seeming to me that in italian must be "Alpina", but no towns with just this name...
I found on ancestry.com a genealogic tree abt:

Antonius Pietro Crosetto
Birth 4 February 1837 in Canischio, Torino, Piemonte, Italy


wife:
Maria Adelaide Burlando
Birth 15 July 1844 in Forno Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italy


I believe that Rosina birth place is in Torino area also... maybe Canischio more probable, because in Braidwood some other Crosetto coming from Canischio.. I know not because Rosina declared "Alpina" that is a adjective and not a substantive...

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suanj wrote:I believe that the surname spelling of Rosina's parents are:
CROSETTO and BURLANDO.
Rosina signed as Crosetto and not Crosetta.

"Alpena or Alfrena" seeming to me that in italian must be "Alpina", but no towns with just this name...
I found on ancestry.com a genealogic tree abt:

Antonius Pietro Crosetto
Birth 4 February 1837 in Canischio, Torino, Piemonte, Italy


wife:
Maria Adelaide Burlando
Birth 15 July 1844 in Forno Canavese, Torino, Piemonte, Italy


I believe that Rosina birth place is in Torino area also... maybe Canischio more probable, because in Braidwood some other Crosetto coming from Canischio.. I know not because Rosina declared "Alpina" that is a adjective and not a substantive...

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The manifest agrees with suanj! Spellling is CROSETTO :D
Unfortunately, only the destination of Braidwood is listed. No specific place in Italy.
However, a few lines down there are others from Italy going to Braidwood...
G. B. Buffo, 73, miner
Antonio Draccoco (not sure of the first two letters of this name), age 32, miner
Appolonia Draccoco, age 31.

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 about Rosina Crosetto
Name: Rosina Crosetto
Arrival Date: 20 Oct 1881
Birth Year: abt 1862
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race-
/Nationality: Italian
Place of Origin: Italy
Port of Departure: Le Havre, France
Destination: Braidwood,United States of America
Port of Arrival: New York
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States
Ship Name: Labrador


Rosina - line 778
Others - lines 781,782,783
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In additon to the Ancestry tree that suanj posted...

I found a Pedigree File AND an Ancestral File on Family Search...
It appears that the place of birth is Canischio, Torino as suanj stated! :-D


Pedigree Resource File

name: Rosa /Crosetto/
gender: Female
birth: 17 Jan 1864
, Canischio, Torino, Italy
death: 15 Jul 1946
Porterville, Tulare, California, USA
burial: 18 Jul 1946
Porterville, Tulare, California, USA
Parents
father: Antonius Pietro /Crosetto/
mother: Maria Adelaide /Burlando/
Marriages (1)
spouse: Vicenzo (Vincent) /Marta/
marriage: ABT 1892
Show children (5)
Submission
submitter: cgfuller1081524
submission date: 14 Jul 2008
submission id: MMSD-XLK
person count: 22,335

Ancestral File

name: Rosa CROSETTO
gender: Female
birth: 17 Jan 1861
Canischio, Torino, Italy
AFN: 1XTG-MBS
Parents
father: Antonius Pietro CROSETTO (AFN: 1XTG-M9L )
mother: Maria Adelaide BURLANDO (AFN: 1XTG-J42 )
Submitters (1)
submitter: mpoloni3854379

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great find Tessa!
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You are all amazing!!!!!! I've been on familysearch hundreds of times and did not see this record somehow. Looks like I've got a pretty round target where to find Rose's village of birth. To Canischio!!!!!

Thank you all.
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