1873 Menfi_Birth Translation Request

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1873 Menfi_Birth Translation Request
No. 290---Img. 1448
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cc=2043548

Calogero Messina seems to be a Foundling child ??

Does it say who gave him this name ?---hard to understand script.

Nicholas n' Joan

[Tessa78]

Dated 19 September 1873 in Menfi
Appearing before the official was Caterina Tortorici, daughter of Michele, age 23, Receiver of the abandoned, who presented a male child who she declared on 19 September at 5 AM was at the wheel in Via Popolo #611, parents unknown.
The child was given the name Calogero and the surname Messineo

T.

[PippoM]

Yes, he was a foundling, and, according to the record, he was given name by Caterina Tortorici, the foundling receiver.