1854 Diversi Record Translation

[teckat]

Request the 1854 Birth-Baptism Diversi Record Translation for Giuseppe Randazzo.

https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 56/LpkMpaE
No. 5 6 di 18 • pag. 6 and 7.
We understand that Giuseppe was an abandoned foundling child.

This birth record is missing from the 1854 Menfi, Agrigento birth name index.
We found the 1854 baptism record on Parish Registers of the Diocese of Agrigento.
Baptised as Joseph Randazzo.
https://www.registriparrocchiali.archiv ... cesiag.it/
Menfi page No. 213 Page. 261 ---Index No. 24 is Joseph Randazzo last name on right side

Nicholas n Joan

[erudita74]

Yes, Giuseppe Randazzo was an abandoned child, abandoned at the town's foundling wheel -left without any signs or letter; he was recognized to be masculine, of the apparent age of 1 day, with no signs on his body-found on June 30, 1854. He was consigned to the balia (wetnurse), Calogera Riggio. It was the town official who assigned this infant his first and last names.

Sorry, but I can't access the baptism record. I no longer have an account to access that website.

[teckat]

Thank you, we never thought to look at Diversi Records ( first time ) for a missing birth or other index document.

Nicholas n' Joan

[mmogno]

Some Comuni register the foundlings in Diversi Records.

[erudita74]

Thank you, we never thought to look at Diversi Records ( first time ) for a missing birth or other index document.

Nicholas n' Joan

You're welcome. Happy to have helped.
Erudita

@G
Thanks for mentioning about foundling records sometimes being found among the diversi documents category. The following was in another thread posted by a fellow volunteer sometime ago concerning diversi documents and may be of use to this poster and others on the forum:

Atti di diversi are most often found before 1865. These records might include anything. However, the most common documents seen among the atti di diversi are (1) birth records of still-born children (morti-nati), (2) birth records of abandoned children (nati di proietti), (3) records of deaths of inhabitants that took place outside the town (morti fuori), (4) adoptions (adozioni), (5) recognitions of abandoned children (recognizioni), (6) changes of domicile (domicilio), (7) records of earlier deaths (morti tardi), and (8) records of the deaths of persons unknown (morti ignoti). There may, of course, be other records