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Soprana Di Benedetto
Dated 2 May 1897 in Cstellammare del Golfo
Before the official appeared Leonardo Di Benedetto, 27, carriage driver residing in this town, to declare that at 6 PM on the 29th of the last month, at the house at Via Carcio(?), from his natural union with a woman not his spouse, and not a relative who he did not name, was born a female child who was presented to the official and to whom was given the name SOPRANA
The column notation is a recognition that the child is the daughter of Leonardo Di Benedetto and of Angela di Lorenzo.
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