Everyone was so much help when I researched my G-Grandparents - it was amazing!
I am now back to my G-Grandmother's siblings and am stuck.
She has a sister who I have been able to document with her family moving from NY to CT. But I can't find the brothers...
Vincenzo Ferrara - abt 1864
I can't find his manifest (his father and another brother arrived in NY in 1897; his mother and other brother arriving in 1898; sisters followed in 1899), located in 1900 census Pawling, NY with family and widowed mother. From Alemina, Italy - possibly earlier than father?
Giovanni Ferrara - abt 1872-1873, June
Arrived in NY: 14 Aug 1898 with his brother-in-law Michele Seminara, located him married in 1900 census Pawling, NY but am unable to read his wife and daughter's names. Arrived from Alemina via Naples.
Luigi Ferrara- abt 1881
Arrived in NY: 20 May 1897 with his mother Marie Genovese no census information at all. Arrived from Alemina via Naples.
If you can dig anything up on them with your expertise I would greatly appreciate it!
~Denise
researching Ferrara
Re: researching Ferrara
You didn't give the names of Vincenzo's family, so I am not sure if I am posting what you have already, but here are some interesting manifests,
1898 Ferrara manifest
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0009
1897manifest for Francesca Ferrara
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0027
Hope it helps.
1898 Ferrara manifest
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0009
1897manifest for Francesca Ferrara
http://www.ellisisland.org/EIFile/popup ... &line=0027
Hope it helps.
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Re: researching Ferrara
The 1898 manifest is for Vincenzo's family - the other from 1897 is for his sister and her children (Ambrosini and Ferrara).
Vincenzo doesn't seem to have sailed with his family - on this manifest and I have a pattern of the men coming across and the women following anywhere from 6mnths to almost a year later. Assuming that pattern fits Vincenzo - he should be earlier than the 1898 manifest - yet he's not on the manifest when his father crosses in 1897 - I must be missing a manifest between those or he arrived prior to the 1897 sailing of his father.
Thank you for looking!!
Vincenzo doesn't seem to have sailed with his family - on this manifest and I have a pattern of the men coming across and the women following anywhere from 6mnths to almost a year later. Assuming that pattern fits Vincenzo - he should be earlier than the 1898 manifest - yet he's not on the manifest when his father crosses in 1897 - I must be missing a manifest between those or he arrived prior to the 1897 sailing of his father.
Thank you for looking!!
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