Ann, Thank you for your advice, now that I have began to investigate my Italian heritage I am keen to trace the family back to italy. I may have had bit of luck. Last Friday I attended a talk from Dr Terri Colpi at the National Records for Scotland in Edinburgh. In collaboration with the NRS she has...

Giovanni and Christina were probably married in Italy around 1890-95. There first child Maria was born in Bangor, Wales in 1893 followed by a second daughter Lucia born in Italy in 1895 and a third child Antonio also born in Italy in 1897. I gleaned that information from the 1901 census and it is co...

Thanks Ann, I have tried to find the marriage certificate on Ancestry.com but with no success. Is there a better source for Italian marriages?

Can anyone help? My mother died in 2011 and was adopted in 1929 in Edinburgh when she was 11 months old. Whilst going through her papers I came across her original adoption application where it lists her father as Fred D’Agostino (30) and her mother as Jessie Edwards (21). For whatever reason they n...