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Hi all...looking for any info about Adalgisa Lappa from the Montegallo region. She emigrated to the US in 1920 and went to Uniontown, PA where she married my grandfather, Gioacchino Lori (and I can find NOTHING about him). Her parents were Enrico and Margherita Lappa. If anyone has any suggestions or knows anything, I'd truly appreciate it!

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Hi abt Gioacchino, he also coming from Montegallo:
Gioacchino Lori
New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island)
Given Name: Gioacchino
Surname: Lori
Last Place of Residence: Montegallo, Italy
Event Date: 29 Jun 1913
Age: 17y
Nationality: Italian
Departure Port: Naples
Arrival Port: New York
Gender: Male
Marital Status: S
Ship Name: America
line 29
pag 1 http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/s ... SUYiOw==/1
pag 2 http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/s ... SUYiOw==/1

The Montegallo (Ascoli Piceno province, Marche region, IT) civil records don't are online... they don't are microfilmed....
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Send for his birth record send no money
email:anagrafe@comune.montegallo.ap.it
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Comune di Montegallo
Frazione Balzo Piazza Taliani n.5
63094 Montegallo (AP)
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Mi chiamo YOURNAME Sto facendo una ricerca sui miei antenati e ho bisogno delle informazioni dai vostri registri. I miei antenati provennero da Montegallo. Vorrei sapere di più di loro.
La ringrazio anticipatamente di voler comunicare i costi di spese di riproduzione e postali per atti di nascita di queste persone:
Nome e cognome : Gioacchino Lori
Luogo di nascita: Montegallo
Data di nascita: 1896
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Hi Marty...
It's more confusing than that. Lori was the name of an uncle who adopted him, what his true surname was, I have no idea and the family (what's left of it) doesn't know. I can't even get a copy of his death certificate here because I need to give them his parents' names, which I don't know---and the reason I WANT the death certificate. His wife, Adalgisa Lappa, came here in 1920 to Uniontown, PA, yet I can find no record of either of them there....and can find no record of HER parents in Ascoli...I've hit the frustrating point!

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Here's his WWII Draft Card. Note he gives name as Joe Angotti Lorrie. Perhaps Angotti was his birth surname. Or the "Joe Angotti" is a corruption of Giacchino. Click to enlarge
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Hi, here 1930 census:

Jaick Lorrie
United States Census, 1930
Name: Jaick Lorrie
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1930
Event Place: West Deer, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1896
Birthplace: Italy
Immigration Year: 1913
Father's Birthplace: Italy
Mother's Birthplace: Italy

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Jaick Lorrie Head M 34 Italy
Argese Lorrie Wife F 32 Italy
Louisa Larrie Daughter F 10 Pennsylvania
Phyllis Lorrie Daughter F 7 Pennsylvania
Edward Lorrie Son M 4 Pennsylvania

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1940 census:
Jack Lorrie
United States Census, 1940
Name: Jack Lorrie
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: West Deer Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Marital Status: Married
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Italy
Birth Year (Estimated): 1896
Last Place of Residence: Same House

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Jack Lorrie Head M 44 Italy
Argie Lorrie Wife F 42 Italy
Louise Lorrie Daughter F 18 Pennsylvania
Teleshina Lorrie Daughter F 17 Pennsylvania
Edward Lorrie Son M 13 Pennsylvania
Henry Lorrie Son M 8 Pennsylvania
Margaret Lorrie Daughter F 3 Pennsylvania

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WWI draft registration card:
Joseph Akin Lorrie
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name: Joseph Akin Lorrie
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Fayette County no 6, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Nationality: Italy
Birth Date: 13 Apr 1896
Birthplace: Oscor, Pichanie, Italy (Ascoli Piceno)

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Suanj,

Thanks so much for your replies! I'm wondering if she (Adalgisa Lappa) was part of an arranged marriage? Did they do that then? She emigrated 7 years after he did, yet the reason on the ship manifest was because she was 'betrothed to Gioacchino Lori'. He never went back that I'm aware of. Apparently, the uncle he lived with in Montegallo was Antonio Lori, but I've come across a few of those, and none are the right one. I also can't find a marriage date (she got here in 1920, their first child was born in 1922).
I must be doing something wrong...
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I did ask one of the few family members left if 'Angotti' meant anything, and she said no. I did some looking to make sure, but I think you're right, Biff---it has to be a corruption of Gioacchino, same as Joseph Akin is on his WW2 draft card. I happened to find their first child's death certificate by accident, because the spelling is way off on that one...can't find a birth certificate for her, though....or a marriage one for them. :(
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Hi surely... it was a arranged marriage... most probably the Gioacchino's uncle managed it...
on the ship's manifest Adalgisa seeming single... so she married in Uniontown, PA... but no evidence.. I don't found the record...
it may be that she was married to Montegallo, with proxy marriage .. a few days before of to embark for the USA.. and on the passport she appearing single...
That it could be possible.....
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MLLorre wrote:I did ask one of the few family members left if 'Angotti' meant anything, and she said no. I did some looking to make sure, but I think you're right, Biff---it has to be a corruption of Gioacchino, same as Joseph Akin is on his WW2 draft card. I happened to find their first child's death certificate by accident, because the spelling is way off on that one...can't find a birth certificate for her, though....or a marriage one for them. :(
I believe that Angotti is no a corruption of Gioacchino...
Angotti is a italian surname, but no one in Marche region... so it seems rather that he has added it from itself...

My opinion is that LORI was the his legal name, because he left Italy with this name,
and this name was on passport...

if he was adopted or no.. who know? if he was a foundling and had Angotti surname by registrar, and then adopted by Lori family, that is possible also...
the truth is on the Birth act... just by that you can know what was his name at Birth...
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I was told that he was adopted by an uncle. Why, I don't know. Never thought to ask when the people who would know were still here...but at that point in my life, when I was that young, it never occurred to me. My dad knew what the original name was, and he remembered letters from Italy from both sides.
I haven't seen any records of passports for either of them. When Gioacchino first emigrated, he went to Kenosha, Wisconsin. There was a Jack Lori there, who my dad called 'Uncle Jackie', but I believe it was a cousin of my grandfather. Can't find any records of him in Kenosha, though. Adalgisa's brother lived in Chicago (Peter Lappa), but I can't find records of my grandparents there, either. After they got married, they settled in Republic, PA, in Fayette County, but darn if I can find any records....
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Here (and following images) is his naturalization file:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/T ... ,350601001
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