Suanj and Pippo, thanks so much for all your excellent assistance. I hope to purchase all these files within the next few months. You have given me a very big start and made it a lot easier for me.
Luther

Good news finally. I have gotten a little information, summarized from a file in the Australia National Archives, which is a translation of his 1921 Italian passport.

According to this translation, Antonio was born 17 June 1884 in CODRONGIANOS, SASSARI. That's about 15 km south east of the city of ...

I have heard back from the Sydney branch of the National Archives regarding three more of the files. Still waiting to hear about the last three, which are in three different cities I believe.

I will have to buy these files for all the details. Hopefully his Alien Registration will have a city of ...

I have heard no hint of a marriage so far but will let you know if I do. His grave is not adjacent to anyone else named Soro and he's the only Soro in the whole cemetery, so it seems he might have remained a bachelor. This makes sense under the circumstances.

He or someone with the same name had a ...

Progress.

Researchers at the National Archives of Australia are looking at files in five different cities. I have just heard back from one of these cities.

In 1927 an article appeared in a men's magazine, Smith's Weekly, suggesting that Antonio Soro had returned to Australia in 1922 and then gone ...

Good news! I have found the names of Antonio Soro's maternal grandparents. I have also proven (90% certain) that the Antonio buried in Sydney is him, because the parents of the Antonio buried in Sydney have almost the same names as the parents of our Antonio's sister Elena d'Albora.

The source also ...

Good work, Pippo, thanks so much. This was my first birth record in this format so I will be able to use this as a model for future efforts. Thanks for finding my mistakes.

Here is my best effort to transcribe and translate Anna Liguori's birth and marriage record. The translation is especially bad English but it gets the message across and I am not qualified to change much from the literal translation as offered by google translation software:

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Suanj, you are a great genealogist! Thank you so much for your assistance! I have not abandoned this search, however I am waiting to hear back from the National Archives in Australia, whether the files they have are all referring to the same person. If so, then we are more certain to proceed ...

Lutherman,
I did a genealogical search for a friend, and was surprised to find out that in Sardinia, in the XIX and early XX century, official documents often reported surnames "the spanish way", that is, a child could be recorded with both surnames of his father, and mother. This is NOT Italian ...

Thanks Peter. My question was about surnames, but I will look at the article on forenames also.

I need help to understand Italian naming customs. For example, I see that the "surname" is written first. But is the surname of the mother sometimes written after that?

Here is an example. I found a marriage in Siniscola 1878 for "Pau Lai Salvatorangelo" and "Soro Bomboi Luizia Elisabetta".

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Pippo,

Antonio Soro made national headlines in Australia, all over the country, in many newspapers, on four separate occasions. The fourth was around May 24, 1918 when the newspapers learned he had been released from prison. The third was when he committed the murder and went on trial. The second ...

I have found a man named Giovanni Soro, which is the name of Antonio's father. He is on trial for conspiracy to incite riots in Siniscola, Sardenia in 1906. That's two years before Elena and Giuseppi Rinaldo d'Albora left for Australia, and three years before Antonio Soro and his mother left for ...

"Sydney Morning Herald, 1946-03-05 p9 SORO GIOVANNI
I, GIOVANNI SORO, of Italian Nationality, born at Poggioreale, Prov. Trapani, and resident in Australia seven years, now residing at 170 Victoria Rd., Drummoyne, intend to apply for Naturalisation, under the Nationality Act, 1920-1936 ...