This topic is related to the topic entitled
"Vincenzo Giacomo Loiacono b.1890 in Modugno, Bari, Puglia"
as Antoinette Famiglio(a) married Vincenzo Giacomo aka James Loiacono when she was 16 years old. But this is an entirely different mystery altogether.
Antoniette Loiacono was my paternal great-grandmother, her death record states that she was born on 26 Jun 1904 and died on 16 Mar 2000 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. The death date I can vouch for because I was at the funeral.
The "story" which I heard from my family is that Antoinette's maiden name was Famiglia. Her parents immigrated from Sicily and arrived at the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. The date of arrival is not known but the story goes that Antoniette was born in New Orleans Lousiana, so an arrival just prior to 1904 is a good guess. She married Vincenzo Giacomo aka James Loiacono when she was 16 years old in Chicago Illinois.
However, proving this "story" has not been very successful. The records that I have found for Antoinette are a 1930 and 1940 US Cenus, in which her know husband and 3 children are listed. However in one census she states she was born in Illinois, in the other she states Louisiana, but in both she states that her parents were born in Italy. She does claim that her first marriage was at 16. I have a birth record for her first child which supports this claim. However, I cannot find a marriage record anywhere in Illinois for her marriage to Vincenzo Loiacono in about 1920. But, I have found a record for such a marriage in July 1920 in Lake County Indiana. Perhaps this is because she was 16 at the time an Illinois did not permit 16 year olds to marry but Indiana did?
In both the birth record of her first child and the Indiana marriage record, her last name is Familgio(a).
I cannot find a birth record at all for Antoinette. (I have checked Louisiana and Illinois records). Nor can I find any evidence of her parents, Familgio(a) in any Louisana or other immigration records.
But here is what is so odd to me.....I found no records of this surname, Familgio(a) or variations, anywhere. It is not a valid Italian surname. In English it means either Family or Familiar.
So this is where I am stuck. I have a story about my great-grandmother but I can prove very little of it and her maiden last name doesn't seem to exist as a real Italian last name.
I am looking for any proof of her maiden last name and where her parents immigrated from (Sicily?), what their names were and if her parents did arrive in Lousiana, what happened to the family in between their arrival into the US and the 1930 US Census showing Antoinette as a married mother of 3 living in Chicago Illinois.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thank you
Laura
found may be Antoinetta or her sister Mary, right first name for their mother
