Suanj, I must say that it is many things that match with what you found! I didn't get moore out of it on the www.familysearch unfortunately. But I guess this must be moore than an coincidence, thank you very much. Maybe his father Wilhelm was from Lucca so he ment that his family was italian. A rela...

I'm not sure if this page is only for italians that moved to America? My husbands family (which live in Sweden) has an ancester named Antonio Jacob Petrini who was born in Lucca Italy 1745. He came to Sweden early in the 1770 as an musician at the swedish court. His fathers name was Wilhelm Petrini ...