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Birth No 82: Giuseppe Citera
Sanza: 6 November 1875, 9.20 am
Nicola Citera, 34, contadino, living Sanza, reported that at 6.40 am, on 5 of the current month (5 November 1875), in a house in Vico San Vincenzo, No 1, from Maria Lanzieri, his wife, contadina, living with him, was born a baby boy who he presented and named Giuseppe.
Witnesses: Francesco Cammardella, 61, Civile (landowner), and Francesco Fasano, 26, Civile, both living in the town of Sanza.
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