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I have this matrimonio on 2 June 1838 for Maria Grazia di Laurenzio, age ??? of Arcangelo and Irena Tescione to Angelo Nespoli 29 of Domenico and Antonia Ragucci.
While I know that she is nati in S.M., I can't quite tell tell he is nati.
That's all I am getting from this document.
Any help?
Thank you
Jim
Jim
Researching surnames Ianniello, Tamburrino, Mattora/Martora/Mattori & Scialla in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Caserta, Campania.
Typically the frazioni cover villages surrounding the principal town (the capoluogo) of a comune. Subdivision of a comune is optional, some comuni have no frazioni, but others have several dozen.
In practice, most frazioni are small villages or hamlets, occasionally a mere clump of houses, although being such a place is not requisite. Nor is every hamlet a frazione; those that are not are often referred to as località , for example in the telephone book. In some occasions frazioni can be more populated than the capoluogo of the comune. Very occasionally, due to unusual circumstances or to the depopulation of the capoluogo, the town hall and its administrative functions can move to one of the frazioni: the comune, however, still retains the name of the capoluogo.
Frazione, in short is the adminstrative absorbtion of a neighboring village, a nearby hamlet or a small area by a Comune (town) so that these places become part of that Comune and their original names become Frazione or "fractions". =Peter=
I know you addressed your question to T, Jim, but she's probably multi-tasking too. Nothing about the place of birth of parents of Angelo, but it does say on page 2 that the death of his paternal grandfather occurred in Sant'Andrea dei Lagni
Peg
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...