tikibar22 wrote:Thank you for all who transcribed! What i can tell you, is his father, Vincenzo was in living in NY and routinely traveled between NY and Bagnoli, from 1887 to (To be determined). I cant wait to hear what Sabino has discovered. To my amazement when i came to read the transcription i was very much excited about the "Mystery"...
Grazie All
Krissi
Could someone tell me; is this document a marriage record? If so does it list the parents of Vincenzo and Maria and ages? https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... 2050764809
Krissi
The two documents are the first and second marriage publications (like the banns of marriage). The actual marriage record is not online. Unfortunately there is limited info in the marriage publications. The first publication is dated Dec 21, 1873. That is the date, a Sunday, that it was posted on the door of the town hall. It remained posted for a week, until Sunday Dec 28th, which is the date of the second publication (the second document on the page). That 2nd publication remained posted for a total of 3 days, so by the following Thurs, there were no publications posted and the couple could then marry at any time. The publications were read aloud to the mostly illiterate population, and posted, to insure there were no objections to the marriage or reasons why it shouldn't take place. The couple could have changed their minds, one of them could have already been married, the male could have been a member of a religious order, had military obligations which he had not fulfilled, etc. Any of these could have constituted a reason why the marriage shouldn't happen. In these publications, you get the parents' names and occupations, but not their ages. Vincenzo Clemente, the groom-to-be, was age 24 and a shoemaker. His father, Antonio Clemente, was a water carrier (viaticale in this record, but also sometimes spelled vaticale); the mother was Maria Antonia Pallante. She was a contadina or peasant/farmer. The bride-to-be was Maria Gaetana Marano, age 25, a contadina or paesant/farmer. Her parents were deceased. The father was Filippo Marano and the mother was Maddalena (I can't decipher her maiden name at the moment). There is no additional info about the parents in these publication records. The last section of the second publication just states that the present register contains 128 acts of publications (for the year 1873) and that the register for 1873 was being closed out by the town official on Jan 1, 1874. So these two marriage publications for Vincenzo and Maria Gaetana were the last two in this town for the year 1873, but there were 128 in total for the entire year in this town.
That's all I can do with this for today.
Erudita