Mori Family in Sestri Levante, Italy
Re: Mori Family in Sestri Levante, Italy
Many thanks for that Laura
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Kurt Wilson
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Re: Mori Family in Sestri Levante, Italy
Hello Brian Landolfi,
I am your cousin Kurt. You may remember me from Lake James in the 60's. I knew your grandmother, Nellie Landolfi, my great aunt, well. She told me she remembered being left with a baby sitter while they took my grandmother, who was then a baby, to the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago. My grandmother, Elizabeth, was on the ship to Italy with Vincent and Catherine in 1911. My mother still keeps her steamer trunk from that voyage. Elizabeth described the trip to me in the 70's. It included a personal audience with Pope Pious the X, and a long climb to the top of the Vatican where she looked out over the city of Rome. I also remember the wonderful sense of adventure Nellie and Elizabeth shared. In the early 70's after they were both widowed they bought unlimited bus passes to tour the United States. Just the two of them joyfully roamed the country for months. Elizabeth died in Lafayette in 1981 and she is buried in the Mancini plot in the Dale Cemetary in Connersville, Indiana.
FYI, I recall Elizabeth telling me that her grandmother's name, Catherine's mother, was Argentina Bacigalupo. She told me the last name meant "To kiss a wolf." Before finding this blog I did not know Catherine was from Gattorna. I assumed she was from Sestri Levante like Vincent.
I do not know the burial sites for Argentina, Catherine, or Vincent or thier birth and death dates.
Kurt Wilson
I am your cousin Kurt. You may remember me from Lake James in the 60's. I knew your grandmother, Nellie Landolfi, my great aunt, well. She told me she remembered being left with a baby sitter while they took my grandmother, who was then a baby, to the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago. My grandmother, Elizabeth, was on the ship to Italy with Vincent and Catherine in 1911. My mother still keeps her steamer trunk from that voyage. Elizabeth described the trip to me in the 70's. It included a personal audience with Pope Pious the X, and a long climb to the top of the Vatican where she looked out over the city of Rome. I also remember the wonderful sense of adventure Nellie and Elizabeth shared. In the early 70's after they were both widowed they bought unlimited bus passes to tour the United States. Just the two of them joyfully roamed the country for months. Elizabeth died in Lafayette in 1981 and she is buried in the Mancini plot in the Dale Cemetary in Connersville, Indiana.
FYI, I recall Elizabeth telling me that her grandmother's name, Catherine's mother, was Argentina Bacigalupo. She told me the last name meant "To kiss a wolf." Before finding this blog I did not know Catherine was from Gattorna. I assumed she was from Sestri Levante like Vincent.
I do not know the burial sites for Argentina, Catherine, or Vincent or thier birth and death dates.
Kurt Wilson
