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Record date: Mar 20th, 1856
Declarant (father): Mariano Savastano, son of deceased Antonio, 30 years old, living in Marmorata.
I can't read his profession. Maybe "conta(di)no" (in this case, it would be an error of the clerk)
Mother: Teresa Milano, 33 yo, his wife
The child was born on the same day at 6pm, and was given name Salvatore.
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I add that Ravello and Marmorata are wonderful places!
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I think the occupation was that of a cartaro-a person who worked in the paper mill there. There was a paper mill there from the fifteen century which now is a hotel. The occupation is more clearly written in some other records in this group of records.
I agree with Erudita, it might be "Cartaro".
There were a lot of paper mills in that area, and the "carta di Amalfi" is very famous!
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The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...