Birth Record Translation + Midwife Question

[mnaccarato]

Can I please get a cross-reference to the below translation?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cc=2043630

Act #593. Dated October 15, 1887. Appeared Anna DiMario, 23 years old, midwife, domiciled in this town, who declared that on the 12th of the current month, in the house in Via [can’t decipher], to Teresa Tescione, farmer, wife of Agostino Garzillo, 47 years old, farmer, both [can’t decipher] was born a female child to which is given the name Arrienta (I think). Can someone please translate the last hand-written paragraph after the witnesses?

I also have a general question - how come certain births included a midwife and others didn’t? Was there a custom? For example, this one does, but the birth act of her sister didn’t include a midwife. Did it represent upper or middle or lower class?

[mmogno]

Act #593. Gazzillo Assunta
Dated October 15, 1887. Appeared Anna Di Stasio, 23 years old, midwife, domiciled in this town, who declared that on the 12th of the current month, in the house in Via Farias #20, to Teresa Tescione, farmer, wife of Agostino Gazzillo, 47 years old, farmer, both "qui residenti" was born a female child to which is given the name Assunta.

"La dichiarante ha denunziato la nascita suddetta per avere nella sua qualità prestato i sussidi dell'arte sua nell'atto del parto ed in luogo del marito della Tescione il quale non l'ha potuto denunziare per essere lontano dalla Città. Letto il presente atto agl'intervenuti lo hanno sottoscritto la dichiarante essendo i testimoni illetterati.
Anna Di Stasio"

[mnaccarato]

Thank you! Any insight into my question around midwifes? And that last paragraph basically means that the midwife denounces her rights to the child to the parents as the father was not in the town at the time of the birth, correct?

[AngelaGrace56]

I also have a general question - how come certain births included a midwife and others didn’t? Was there a custom? For example, this one does, but the birth act of her sister didn’t include a midwife. Did it represent upper or middle or lower class?

Thank you! Any insight into my question around midwifes? And that last paragraph basically means that the midwife denounces her rights to the child to the parents as the father was not in the town at the time of the birth, correct?

Hi there

I saw your question earlier and then noticed that mmogno had bet me to editing your translation.

The words denunziato and denunziare in this situation are talking about "declaring" or "reporting" not denouncing anything.

The only time you will see mention of the midwife is when she "declares" or "registers" a birth. The midwife registering the birth will be doing so for various reasons, but most commonly because either the father is ill, or because he is away from the town and is unable to do it himself, and the mother herself may still be feeling unwell. Usually, like in this case, there is a note at the base of the record, before the signatures, explaining why the midwife has reported the birth. She reported the birth because "the husband of Tescione could not declare the birth because he was far from the city".

Just be careful about using google translate because it can send you offbeat. Until you really understand the words used, and their intepretation, in the context of civil records, you are safer to have them checked here.

Angela

[mnaccarato]

I realized it meant reporting after I submit this and it was too late - haha!! Thank you for confirming that. And helpful context on the use of midwifes and risks of GTranslate.

[AngelaGrace56]

You are welcome. I think that googletranslate has its place, but it is very "literal," which doesn't always work well when you are translating from Italian to English and viceversa, and there is no way it can have all the words contained in Civil Records programmed into its system, especially as we often come across dialectal words.

Spot you again.

Angela