This past year I've started researching my Italian family history and I'd really like to find family members who have information on my Great Great Grandmother, Luigia Casella Calamari, her parents and siblings. If you are related and have any information you'd like to share, please get in touch!
Luigia Angela Casella was born on 11/18/1868 in Cattaragna, ER, Italy to Maria Bernardi and Andrea Casella. I know she had two brothers, Augusto and Antonio (1/18/1866). She immigrated with them on May 31, 1887. On June 21, 1887 she married Filippo Isidoro Calamari in Manhattan.
Their first child, Luigi Calamari, was born on May 23, 1888 in Manhattan. Isidoro died on November 14, 1889. Their second child, Maria Maddalena, was born on July 4, 1890.
Luigia married widower Giuseppe Pasqualino Calamari on April 24,1893 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Manhattan. Giuseppe had two children, Henry and Marie from his previous marriage to Domenica Cervini.
Luigia and Giuseppe had 8 children (maybe 9); Margaret (1894), Janet/Jennie (1895), Rosa (1896), Pietro/Isidoro (1898), Annie (1900), Anna (1902), Antonio (1905) and Giovanni/John (1907).
The family moved to the Essex, Connecticut area around 1910. Giuseppe died on March 23, 1913. Luigia died on September 16, 1960.
Many thanks in advance!
* * * Login issues? Please login directly under the forum * * *