Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
I am researching my family tree and i already knew about Michaelangelo Antonio Antonucci and his wife Antonia Tomasso, who came to Plymouth/ Looe in England but didn't know about the wider family coming over.
I have found Angelo Pietro Antonio di Mambro and Maria Giuseppa Francesca Tomasso along with their family living in Bristol. their occupations appear to be either ice-cream sellers or musicians.
does anyone have any more information for me please.
My Great Great Grandparents are Angelo Pietro Dimambro and Maria Giuseppa Francesco Tomasso. I have found details about Angelo Dimambro's Parents - Antonio Dimambro & Domineca Masserel but no date of birth or anything further here - Do you have any more details? With Maria Giuseppa Francesco Tomasso - I have details of her parents, grandparents and great grandparents going back to 1727.
During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976, the U.S. was the largest single recipient of Italian immigrants in the world. However, their impact was not as great as countries like Argentina and Brazil. That was due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of immigrant...