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I believe that this is the birth record from my great-great grandmother, Maria Michele Saturnino. I'm looking for help to translate this, especially the writing under her name on the left. Thank you in advance!!
The margin notation is for a marriage on 11 December 1926 to Domenico Mongella
Record #241
Dated 14 October 1867 in San Bartolomeo in Galdo, Benevento
Before the official ... appeared Pasquale Saturnino, son of deceased Giuseppe, farmer of age 25, who presented a female child who was born on 13 of the current month at 2 PM to his wife Maria Donata Cerro, age 33, farmer, in the house they inhabit in Via Montagna. The child was given the name Maria Michele.
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