last attempt to post a version with larger text but under size restrictions.ugh.

tommaso

here is less of the text at the original scanned quality. the individual was identified as raimondo di nocera. the given name does not look like raimondo to me.

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because i scanned it at 400 dpi it's a big file which i had to reduce to post. i could try to crop it or forward the original via email. i'll work on cropping the original first. thanks.

tommaso

Wife of Nicola Salamone
Daughter of the deceased Rosario Ianelli and Maria Anna Fici (?)
Aged 22

the otjher parts are difficult but not important anyway

tommaso

having a hard time figuring out the given name of the deceased. help would be appreciated.

tommaso

cuius essentially means citizen, in this case just identifying citizen with parents unknown. the letter is definitely i not j, i have seen the older style writing like that in a variety of italian documents.

tommaso

the word after maria rosa is her surname, but i cannot decipher it. the other words, variations of parenti ignoti - parents unknown.

tommaso

qm = qoundam

daughter of deceased...

here is what i see.

Giuseppe milazzo, son of natale and angela piazza
Leonarda zito ploia, daughter of Ignatius and Francesca cialla (deceased)

tommaso

i believe his spouse's name was rosa caruso.

tommaso

Angela Salamone wife of Giovanni Sanfilippo, daughter of Nicola and Grazia (deceased) Iannello, age 43 at death.

tommaso

the record is dated 16th january 1763. awful fuzzy.

just to share a hunch. i was able to find a manifest for the greatgrandfather giuseppe raiano who listed his place in italy as alife which by my guessing may have been taken by an american to be oliva - not too far a stretch. there are raiano family in caserta. might be an explanation. might try mic...

thanks for all of the suggestions. the only bit of information i have to go on is a 1942 obituary which identifies he was from oliva, reggio di calabria. i am going to try to find him in ellis island. i do have us census information which indicates he came here in the late 1800's and lived in nyc un...

grazie. i'll check those suggestions out. i also will look up locations for cognome raiano as they are supposedly form this comune.

tommaso