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Dated June 24, 1827
Banns of marriage were on the 3rd, 10th, and 14th of June and resulted in no impediments to the marriage
Groom: Benedetto Aceste was of uncertain parents
Bride: Antonina Sciorttino was the daughter of deceased Francesco Sciorttino and Margherita(?) Mirabella
Well, the notion that he is a foundling is the first thought to come to my head. I'm looking for other explanations. I'll be at the FHC again Wednesday morning searching microfilm for Benedetto's birth record. I don't expect to find them mentioned, but one can always hope!
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 ...