My grandmother also wrote Verderajme with a "j."

Her great-grandmother Teresa Verderajme was born in 1843 and in Cefalu. She was the daughter of Nicolo Verderajme and Rosaria Testa.

Unfortunately I don't go any farther back or have more detail.

I am suspicious that Verderajme is a Norman last ...

The story in our family is that some of our Sicilian family got chased of out Alabama by the Klan and ended up in Louisiana.

I'm also told that after the War Between the States, Sicilians were brought to work the fields and live in the same quarters as the slaves had previously.

When I did a ...

I have a 5th great granfather from Sicily named Giuseppe who would have been born in the late 1700s

I show his grandson as being from Chiusa and born in the early 1800s

You say you are in Sicily - do you have family from Chiusa Sclafani?

Curious
Greg
Texas

I show a Gioacchino Campisciano in Chiusa in 1675 - do you have this name in either of the Campisciano families you've traced?

Greg
Texas