Mariano DiStefano Death

[scraig32]

once again, thank you very much!! You have really put a lot of time and effort into my family. Yes, the story is so interesting!!! I have 6 of the 7 children listed as Michele, Antonino, Giuseppe, Carlos, Teodosio, Giovanni. Michele is my 3x great grandfather and he has a not so famous, but still interesting story. According to family, he fell in love with a castle maid. They had 4 children out of wedlock bc they could not marry. The first two were kept and given the mother's last name. The other two were given up for adoption- one being my 2x great grandfather, who came to america.

I found some other really interesting info about Ippolita, my 4x great grandmother, but have trouble making it all out. This blog account seems to be written by someone who claims that they are her 2x great grandmother but I can't figure out the name of the blog writer. Anyway, it contains REALLY interesting info about Ippolita and the flag of Sicily. Pages 4 and 5 are all about her and the flag. At the end, the author says this

Ippolita De Stefani Perez era la mia trisavola per parte materna e la sua bandiera oggi è esposta nel Museo del Risorgimento di Torino. E io ne vado fiera, lusingata e orgogliosa.

And there is a small, blurb picture of an inscription somewhere about the flag which is on display at that museum.. ISn't that cool!!!!


http://www.vignaclarablog.it/wp-content ... zo2011.pdf


Should I post about Ippolita's and Mariano's marriage document in another section of the forum to see if anyone who researches Sicily can help?

[AngelaGrace56]

Thank you for sharing your interesting story here and also the link. I've had a quick read through the link. Wow!
What I am understanding from the article is that it was the Italian flag. The pic is the Italian flag (green – countryside/hope; white mountains/faith; red blood spelt/charity). The two "noble" women Signore Vitina Granozzi Patera and Ippolita De Stafani Perez sewed the flag on 12 May 1860 in Santa Ninfa and it is now displayed in the Turin museum. I'm understanding it was sewn for Garibaldi and he waved it from the Castello di Salemi, with "Viva Santa Ninfa", on the eve of the battle of Calatafimi which happened 15 May 1860. What I am understanding is that they first put it together out of colour sequence and then resewed it.

The person who wrote it was born in Sciacca, Agrigento, Sicily. It would be great to get a clearer pic of the placque. (My understanding is that the placque is in Santa Ninfa, but I might be misreading. It is a marble placque built in 1960 to honour these two women, during the 100 years celebration?) It's a great tribute to these two women. They were significant history makers. It seems like she was politically inclined.

Should I post about Ippolita's and Mariano's marriage document in another section of the forum to see if anyone who researches Sicily can help?

That sounds like a good idea. That's what I would do. There are a lot of very knowledgable people on the forum who research Sicily. You could also phone your local Family History Centre and enquire whether they have the relevant film out at the moment for you to look at. Good luck. I hope you have success with this. Trapani records have only just been put online at the antenati site so who knows, more might be coming soon.

Angela

[AngelaGrace56]

I was hoping to find a pic of Ippolita and I think I have found one on the following link. I'm pretty sure that it would be the woman on the left: http://www.virtualsicily.it/Storia-santa-ninfa-TP-310

There's a lot of info out there about Ippolita and Vitina. A lot of the blogs and newspaper articles are fairly repetitive though.

Angela

[scraig32]

thank you Angela!!! This is wonderful information. I love the picture of Ippolita and thank you for translating that flag paragraph. I love it all! I can't wait to find out more. I REALLY appreciate all of your help!! If I learn anything more soon that is really fascinating I will keep you posted:-)

[AngelaGrace56]

Very happy to help. It has been a very interesting journey. Keep me posted.

BTW: If you don't have Giovanni's birth record, let me know and I'll post it.

Angela

[KaraGalante]

I wanted to let you know that i finally made some leeway with the DNA testing we had done at 23andme, I matched with someone who claims their mother's family name was "Allegatto" they list as a 3rd cousin of mine per dna, if all the information you have gathered is true, we trully are related! my father is still waiting for his test results and mine came back with Spain DNA!

-Kara Galante

[scraig32]

oh wow! I'm excited to get mine back too. I am hoping to come back with Spain DNA too!