Help reading Birth Record for Giuseppe Rocca Birth in Catanzaro, Italy

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Help reading Birth Record for Giuseppe Rocca Birth in Catanzaro, Italy

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Please help us read a Birth Record for Giuseppe Rocca Birth in Catanzaro, Italy. The record is located here: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1 ... cc=2043789

The record is # 189 for Mar 1879 in Catanzaro, Italy. He eventually marries Concetta LaCava 17 Dec 1903 in Borgia.
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Giuseppe Felice Francesco Rocca was born 19 March 1879 @ 1:02 AM, and presented on 23 March...
Father was Generoso Rocca (Cesare Rocca was written on the record, but was corrected by the court as noted in the margin note), age 32, a laborer residing in this city of Catanzaro.
Mother was Barbara Ruga, his wife, a spinner residing with her husband.
There is an additional margin note which references the marriage in 1903 to Concetta La Cava.

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Thank you so very much for your help Tessa. We appreciate it so very much
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molan wrote:Thank you so very much for your help Tessa. We appreciate it so very much
Gary
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Hi, can you tell us what the margin note says exactly. Does it seem odd that the Fathers name would be corrected in 1897, almost 20 years after the birth of the child ?

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molan wrote:Hi, can you tell us what the margin note says exactly. Does it seem odd that the Fathers name would be corrected in 1897, almost 20 years after the birth of the child ?

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It is not odd at all. Corrections were often made years later when the error was discovered.

It states: The written sentence of this court on 6 September of the current year (date of entry at the end), that the present civil act be rectified and changed to read father as Generoso, and not as Cesare, as by erroneous assumptions was written. It is dated Catanzaro, 18 September 1897, and signed by the official.

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Thank you once Tessa again for your most generous help. We do appreciate it so very much
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