Hello fellow researchers,
Can anyone please help to identify a possible birth place for my great-great-grandfather?
He appears in the 1921 Census in Scotland which confirms his birthplace as Italy but frustratingly I cannot read the original script and don’t know enough Italian place names to recognise the “shape of the letters”.
I have included a screenshot image below. It is line 9 that I am interested in - there is another Italian who is on line 6 but it is line 9 that I need help with please.
What's you GGF's name?
It might help to identify the area
Giuseppe "Pippo" Moccaldi
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His “Scottish” name was Peter Carswell but his real name was Pietro Casoli - relatives have told it was pronounced “Casuli” with and “u” sound.
I know there is a Casoli in province of Lucca and also a Casoli in province of Chietti.
But I don’t know enough places to see if his birth place looks similar to those on the map.
We believe he was Northern/Lombardia/Toscana but have no evidence for this. My DNA test suggested Northern Italian ancestry.
The first word is “La” - possibly meaning Lago?
The second word might be “Magiore” ? The census clerk may not have know it is spelled “Maggiore”.
I have no idea what the third word might be.
Could it be a corruption of Lama Mocogno in the province of Modena? I'm not familiar with Northern Italian places, just guessing.
Thank for your suggestion Henricoz.
Lama Macogno was one of the possible names I had considered and I wanted to see what others on the forum might suggest. We know little about my GG-grandfather other than he was North-italian and probaly passed through Genoa. But probably half of the Italian diaspora also passed through Genoa!
I've tried to identify the place by scrolling the lists of modern Italian comuni, but I couldn't find any place matching that precise order of words and shape of letters. Maybe it's a frazione or, more likely, a corrupted form of an existing town.
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