Searching for Antonia Failla (Married name)

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New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Rosolino Abbate
Name: Rosolino Abbate
Arrival Date: 26 Apr 1907
Birth Year: abt 1895
Birth Location Other: cosklmore
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian (South) (Italian)
Port of Departure: Naples, Italy
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Germania
Search Ship Database: Search the Germania in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

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for the naturalizations you can check this site (payment)

http://www.footnote.com/

When I did a search for Giuseppe Abbate on ancestry, I noticed that there was a link to Como & Lecco Civil Registration Records. Would that record have anything to do with this Giuseppe Abbate?

Como and Lecco are two provinces in the Lombardia region, in the north of Italy... nothing to do with Castelbuono in Palermo Province, Sicily region in the south of Italy.... As I wrote you before Abbate is a very common lastname ....

Laura

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Thank you very much. Do you think that the footnote documents would be available to search through the library? There is one local library about a half hour away that has free footnote access.
Also, would it be possible for you to please post the WWI draft index for Giuseppe Abbate?
I am also trying to find the passenger list for Vincenzo Cusimano. He was born on June 1, 1876 and died sometime before 1930, since he wasn't in the 1930 Census and his wife was listed as widowed. I would like to find out also exactly when he died, maybe even what happened to him.
On ancestry, he is in the 1920 census with his family under Vincenzo Cusima*. His wife, Rosa sailed from Palermo with his two sons Giuseppe and Luigi. They were going to stay with her husband Vincenzo. They sailed on the San Giorgio and arrived on April 30, 1909. She said her closest relative was her father Luigi Cusimano in Castelbuono. Do you think she was actually talking about her father-in-law? I don't actually know what her maiden name was.
It would seem odd for her to have had the same last name as her husband. She did travel under the name Cusimano, though. She was born in 1882 in Castelbuono.

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Possible death dates for Vincenzo Cusimano, from the free site http://www.italiangen.org/VRECLIST.stm

Cusamano Vincenzo 45 y Oct 19 1922 Certificate number: 18959 County Kings

Please, give a look at this newspaper article I found on the (great) site
http://www.fultonhistory.com/

Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle, 30 october 1922

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper% ... ehtml&.pdf

title:
Held for Motor death

The dead person was Vincent Cusimano and the date of the accident was October 19, 1922, Vincent Cusimano died soon afterward... I believe this is more than a coincidence...

Laura

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Possible 1906 arrival manifest for:

Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1943
about Vincenzo Cusimano
Name: Vincenzo Cusimano
Arrival Date: 2 Oct 1906
Age: 29 Years
Estimated birth year: abt 1877
Gender: Male
Ethnic Background: Italian (South) (Italian)
Port of Departure: Naples, Italy
Ship Name: Canopic
Port of Arrival: Boston, Massachusetts
Friend's Name: Vincenzo Verona
Last Residence: Italy
Microfilm Roll Number: 99
Last residence in Italy Castelbuono, travelling with his brother Gioacchino, age 16
Can you confirm his brother's name?

the only date that doesn't matches is that he stated he was single....

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and a subsequential arrival manifest:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Vincenzo Cusimano
Name: Vincenzo Cusimano
Arrival Date: 2 Dec 1920
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birth Location: Sicily
Birth Location Other: castelbuono
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian (South) (Italian)
Port of Departure: Palermo
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Dante Alighieri
Search Ship Database: Search the Dante Alighieri in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

Vincenzo Cusimano, age 43, married, merchant, last residence in Italy Castelbuono, leaving there Mr. Santo Cusimano (no relationship is lsited), returning to his home in NY - Brooklyn to his wife Rose Cusimano... He stated also he stayed in the U.S. from 1905 to 1920

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Laura

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Wow. Thank you. I was just reading the newspaper story and my jaw was dropping as I read it. It fits exactly with what his daughter said. She said something about him falling from a truck. That made it sound like an accident to me.
The only different detail in the story is that he was actually thrown from the truck and the person driving the car that hit the truck was arraigned for vehicular homicide. I didn't expect to see something like this.
I'm surprised about the 1920 passenger list. I wasn't thinking about other trips. Thank you very, very much for this.

[pink67]

You're welcome

You can request a copy of the death certificate here:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vi ... eath.shtml

You have all the correct dates to easily request it and on the document you'll find the cause of the death....
The certificate may have listed also his parents names....

Laura

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I don't know anything about the brother Gioacchino and I'm surprised about Boston, but the rest could very well fit.

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My fiancee asked her mom about the maiden name of Antonia Failla, who was married to Antonio Failla, who was born in 1872 in Castelbuono, Sicily. On April 11, 1904, he emigrated to the United States. I think he was single at the time, or at least listed that way.

In 1905, his son, Louis Failla was born. According to my fiancee's mom, the family moved back to Sicily when Louis was around 4. He came back in the 1920s. I don't know the birth or death dates for Antonia. I also don't have any idea when Antonio Failla died, or where. When Louis came back to the U.S., he was going to stay with his uncle, Giuseppe Abbate.

Maybe Abbate is the maiden name of Antonia. I have been trying to find out for sure, and find out anything else that I can about her, especially her passenger list. It seems likely that she was born in Italy to begin with. Otherwise, why move to Sicily? Does anyone have any ideas?