I've read this interesting article: https://www.italiangenealogy.com/articles/italian-genealogy/tracing-italian-lineages-of-adoptees-and-ancestors-born-outside-marriage

but I've run across a case from Naro, Sicily circa 1880-1895 that seems a little unusual.

I've found a man, whose death record ...

I see that now - thank you so much!

Hi, I'm not an Italian-speaker so I've been making do with Google Translate while I give my brother-in-law an assist with his family tree. There's a line in the 1899 marriage banns for a couple from Sicily that I'm trouble making sense of - it's outlined in red below.

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