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Hi, I'm having trouble reading this record. I can't seem to read his parent's names. I believe the father is Domenico Marotta, but the mother's name I can't tell. Is it Gesuela Romenelli?
Death No 45: Raffaele Marotta
Perdifumo: 16 December 1893
Raffaele Marotta died yesterday, 15 December 1893, 2 pm. He was 79?, contadino, residing Perdifumo and born Perdifumo, son of deceased Domenico, a contadino, who lived in Perdifumo when living, and the son of deceased Gesuela Romanelli, contadina, who also lived in Perdifumo when living. He was the husband of Angela ? - (the page is torn here)
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...