Prudnella or prunella first name??? vitale last

[elizabethvitale]

Does anyone know any other variation for this name?

[PippoM]

I'd say a correct (or likely) spelling might be "Brunella".
Can you give some more detail?

[jennabet]

I agree. Brunella would be correct. By the way it means "Little Bruna".

[johnnyonthespot]

Here is a good source for this subject: http://www.nomix.it/nomi-italiani-masch ... minili.php

[erudita74]

There's actually a children's book by Margaret Atwood entitled La Principessa Prunella.

Prunella is actually the name of a flowering plant used in healing in Asian medicine, but it is found in Europe and North America as well.

I personally have never seen it as a first name in an Italian record, although I see online that someone wrote that it was the first name given to her at baptism. That person wasn't in Italy though.

Erudita

[elizabethvitale]

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all of the answers. Could be a mistake. The info was given to me by a genealogist.

the person is supposedly related to my grand father and his sister.

There was supposedly another older brother Pasquale Vitale and sister Prudnella Vitale.
I believe they both made it to America and Pasquale lived in Ohio. But, I can not find Prudnella other than in Italy born in Reggio Cambria I don't have the details right with me.

this genealogy page tells more of my grand father and his sister...
http://www.elizabeth-vitale.com/id251.html

[elizabethvitale]

Carmine Thanks for the offer of private message. I have loads of research resourses. I am related to a Giuseppi Vitale, but I don't have all of the details on the record. I did the ellis island on near places of birt in Italy. Anyway, thanks again... As far as census there are so many and I have my grand father from when he came over through 1940. I have all of his sister census info too since she came over and the ellis boat she came on..

http://www.elizabeth-vitale.com/id251.html