Help with a Marriage Record

[LoriB]

Hi, can somebody please help me by translating this marriage record? I'm particularly interested in the part after the bride and groom's info, where it mentions Vincenzo (not the groom, most likely the groom's nephew) and Gaetana. The whole record is hand written from 1882 and I'm curious as to what all that writing is about. I would appreciate any help. Thank you so much!

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[bbivona]

Are these records from an online source? The scan quality is not very good and it would be easier if I could link to it on FamilySearch, Antenati, or Ancestry.

[LoriB]

Sorry! I will try to locate them again on Ancestry. Would I then just copy and paste the url?

[bbivona]

That would be great.

[LoriB]

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/co ... try.com%2F

Is this any better?

[bbivona]

Basically the same. I'll take a look. Was hoping the online image didn't have so much fuzziness, but I should be able to figure it out.

[LoriB]

Sorry. Some of them are really clear, and others are a mess. I don't understand why some of them have used the form, which is so much easier to read, and some records are completely written out. I always cringed when I found a record that was completely handwritten in cursive. Mostly I just wanted to figure out names and dates, but I'm trying to find out what was written about these 2 children. They are not the biological children of the bride and groom. I have their birth records.

[bbivona]

The 7th of September 1882 at town hall I received from the mayor of Ravanusa the following extract of the marriage act

On September 4, 1882 appeared Vincenzo Bentivenga age 31, shoemaker, born in Naro, resident of Naro, son of Calogero (Bentivenga), deceased who was a resident of Naro when living, and of Gaetana Nobile, deceased who was a resident of Naro when living,
and
Carmela Di Prima, age 18, seamstress, born in Ravanusa, resident in Ravanusa, daughter of Giovanni (Di Prima), resident of Ravanusa, and of Santa Galiano, resident of Ravanusa,

who requested to be united in matrimony. He indicated that the proper announcements had been published. He asked the groom if he intended to take as his wife Carmel di Prima, and asked her if she intended to take Vincenzo Bentivenga as her husband.

Present were Giuseppe Martino, age 50, shoemaker, and Salvatore Sanfilippo age 51, laborer, both residents of this comune.

Before the same witnesses they made me aware that to their union was born a son on 8 February 1881. There appears to have been an appeal of some sort related to the birth of the son, filed in Naro by Gaetano Bentivenga on the 14th of October 1881 and by Antonino Bentivenga. This marriage act will act as to legitimize him as their natural son.

The act read to all, only Calogero Gallo signed as the other did not know how to write. Ravanusa, 7 September 1882.

He states that this is a complete and accurate transcription of the record provided.

[LoriB]

Thank you so much! That absolutely did not say what I thought it might say! I thought it might shed some light on a question I had, but it probably will be a mystery forever. Oh well....

[bbivona]

The part that says "There appears to have been an appeal of some sort related to the birth of the son, filed in Naro by Gaetano Bentivenga on the 14th of October 1881 and by Antonino Bentivenga" is my comment - I'm not sure exactly what went on but there is a reference to an appeal by them in the discussion of the birth. Everything else, including the part beginning with "This marriage act will act to legitimize..." is an approximate translation of what it actually says.

[erudita74]

I don't agree with you about the concept of an appeal. There were two daughters born to Vincenzo from his natural union with a woman, who was not married but did not wish to be named. Gaetana was born in 187? I can't read the last digit. Antonia was born on Oct 2, 1881 but the date of registration was the 4th. Here's Antonia's record in Naro. I am trying to find the record for the other daughter.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=145365

[bbivona]

I don't agree with you about the concept of an appeal. There were two daughters born to Vincenzo from his natural union with a woman, who was not married but did not wish to be named. Gaetana was born in 187? I can't read the last digit. Antonia was born on Oct 2, 1881 but the date of registration was the 4th. Here's Antonia's record in Naro. I am trying to find the record for the other daughter.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=145365

Ok, glad you checked. I had some trouble with the clarity in that section.

[erudita74]

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=368172

This is Gaetana's record dated Feb 8, 1879 but the birth was on the 5th in Ravanusa. In the index, the name is Gaetano and not Gaetana.