My great grandparents were Peter Galineti (b. ca. 1871) and Lucy Cerutti (b. ca. 1874). He may have emigrated about 1887. They turn up in Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) in 1919 but had a child, Costanso (aka Peter C.), my grandfather, in Hancock, Michigan in 1900. In 1921 Canadian border crossing documents list all family members as Canadian citizens. In these 1921 documents Peter gives his occupation as 'merchant', Costanso as 'repairman'. The family name became Galinet.
I know Costanso became a bootlegger- he served a sentence in the penitentiary in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1930. He is listed there as a 'resident' in the 1930 Census, while his wife Frieda is listed as head of household in Three Rivers, Michigan.
My family knows next to nothing about Peter and Lucy before 1900 except that they were born in Cortereggio, Piemonte. This information is had from an old family friend.
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