Occupation Translation Help

[dvaccaro]

a few municipal records in Brooklyn list my sicilian ancestor's occupation as a "sciaboliatore" or "sciopoliotore" ... anyone have an idea what this job might be? this would have been in 1906/07.

thanks

[Emmy]

This is a link to word meanings from the Familyhistory.org maybe be of some help

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ ... Italia.ASP
Emmy

[vj]

Hey Emmy & dvaccaro!
Here's two more
Valarie

occupations from geocities
occupations from mangeruca ...

[BillieDeKid]

dvaccaro -

Can you post the document?

Elizabeth

[peggymckee]

"Scalpellino" is stone cutter or mason, "scultore" & "scarpellatore" mean "sculptor"--none is quite what you have posted but if I had to guess, I'd bet that the occupation is statuary worker.

My own GF was a statuary worker (making headstones & cemetary monuments) and later actually sculped as an artist. Many Italians worked in some way with stone.

Sorry I can't help more. Peg

[dvaccaro]

thanks, everyone, for the quick responses.

for some reason, i get an upload error when trying to post the document... but no matter... it is a 1906 Brooklyn birth record which pretty clearly states the father's occupation as "sciaboliatore." a 1908 birth record (which i do not have copied) states the same person's job as "sciopoliotore." he would have been 33/34 years old at the time.

according to my italian/english dictionary, a "sciabola" is a sabre(!), and a "scioperone" or a "scioperato" is a lazy-bones. a "sciopero" is a strike (i.e. labor strike).

before leaving sicily in 1903, this person was a peasant farmer, and in later years (1910 and after) worked as a railroad laborer. i do know that he was not a skilled person (like a stone-cutter or sculptor). there were barbers in the family, but that's about it.

any other thoughts? i was hoping someone here would have run across this term before.


p.s. why can't i upload an 8K jpg?

[dvaccaro]

here is a clipping of the item in question...

http://tambuca.com/vaccaro/sciaboliatore1.jpg

[BillieDeKid]

I was going to suggest "slave laborer"

schiavo - slave

Just a guess.

Elizabeth

[suanj]

I believe that could be a occupation or abt the fishing( the "sciabola" is also a fish) or abt the carpenter ( the "sciabola" in sicilian dialect is also a table)..suanj

[NOLA]

He could also have been a builder of fishing boats. In the Sicilian dialect, Sciabbica. The Zingarelli dictionary says: Row boat for fishing with a net, which is also called sciabbica. Or a fisherman who used these nets for casting on this type of boat.

[BillieDeKid]

If you split the word into sciabola tore and translate it is slashes bulls - maybe he was a butcher or worked in a slaughter house.

[peggymckee]

1906 Brooklyn birth record states the father's occupation as "sciaboliatore." a 1908 birth record states the same person's job as "sciopoliotore."

Just curious--any idea why birth records from Brooklyn have the occupations stated in Italian?

All the best, Peggy M

[dvaccaro]

1906 Brooklyn birth record states the father's occupation as "sciaboliatore." a 1908 birth record states the same person's job as "sciopoliotore."

Just curious--any idea why birth records from Brooklyn have the occupations stated in Italian?

All the best, Peggy M

that is an excellent question.