Ciampi, Giovanni

[dmurphy1940]

May I please have a translation for Birth 7.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... 1391298392

[erudita74]

May I please have a translation for Birth 7.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... 1391298392

Giovanni Ciampi was born on June 8, 1887 at 2 :15 P.M. in the house at #6 Contrada Mattine. His father, Giuseppantonio Ciampi, was a 39 year old peasant/farmer living in Frigento. His mother, Maria Rosaria Calo', also a peasant/farmer in the town, was living with her husband. Looks like she was the daughter of deceased Giuseppe, but there is a circle which seems to appear on my screen around the word "fu." I just find it odd that the husband's father is not mentioned in the record, yet hers is, so I am wondering if perhaps the word fu and her father's name were possibly errors not meant to be in the record.
Erudita

[dmurphy1940]

Does "fu" mean "was", Erudita, and does that explain it? I googled "fu" and that is what came up................

[erudita74]

Does "fu" mean "was", Erudita, and does that explain it? I googled "fu" and that is what came up................

Hi Dolores

The record seems to read "Maria Rosaria Calo' fu Giuseppe" meaning that she was the daughter of deceased Giuseppe (the surname Calo' for him does not appear in the record but is understood as being his surname as well, since women maintained their father's surnames in the Italian civil records.

fu is the singular and is used to indicate that someone was deceased. Technically it is part of the conjugation of the verb "essere" -"to be"

http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_essere.htm

furono would be the plural and may be written before only one of the first names and not the other. So if both parents in the record were deceased, and the word furono only appeared in front of the father's name, then that would mean that the mother was also deceased.

So this is today's Italian lesson.

Happy New Year.
Erudita

[dmurphy1940]

And what a lesson it is! Thank you, Erudita, and a Happy New Year to you also.