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In the 1748 Riveli for Gioiosa Guardia, there are several entries describing militia service. I am having difficulty with a few of the words. Help on clearly identifying and translating the words shown in a representative sample -- particularly the abbreviations -- would be appreciated.
My guesses:
The word in the first highlighted block appears to be "castagnoli", making the expression "capelli castagnoli" translate to "chestnut hair".
The second highlighted block appear to contain the word "colla", which Google says is "glue" and which I guess used with "colla contribuzione" means something like "is bound [or obligated] to contribute".
The third highlighted block is difficult for me to read. My guess is that the phrase is "in gv. cinql.", though I'm not sure of the first abbreviation; it could also be "cv.". Regardless, I'm not sure what the last two abbreviations represent, let alone translate to.
The fourth word appears to be "alive".
The last word appears to be "sevuendo", which makes the phrase "il giorno stando in atto sevuendo"; I'm not sure how that prhase should translate.
I am not used to such records, expecially if taken out of context.
I might think that several people contributed to the militia service of Giuseppe paying five "cinq(ue)" gr(ani).
Grana or grani was a money unit of that time
Of course, I can be wrong, and it can mean something completely different.
Someone more expert might help here. A full image of the page might help, too.
What you read as "alive" is "altre".
The last highlighted word might be "servendo". "Stando in atto servendo" meaning "being now under service"
Giuseppe "Pippo" Moccaldi
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PippoM wrote:A full image of the page might help, too.
Picture this paragraph repeated 7 times. Change the names and the hair color of some entries from "castagnoli" to "negri" and you have how the folio appeared.
You'd need the full section -- several folios -- for context; unfortunately, I did not capture all of the images and FamilySearch has temporarily (I hope!) taken these offline.
Thanks to you and liviomoreno for the clarifications!
If I am interpreting "il giorno" correctly in this context, does this mean that the people listed contributed five grani per day to support the service of Giuseppe Siametta?
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