Help translating birth record #377

[vulpackleader]

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cat=415719

#377 Salvatore Fricia

I am having trouble reading the part where the mother's name usually is - is it saying the parents were unmarried?

Thanks!

[bbivona]

On October 23, 1906 appeared Antonina Morello, age 18, homemaker, domiciled in Augusta who declared that at 3:07 p.m. on October 22 in the home on Via Epicarmo, a male child was born of her legitimate union with Giuseppe Fricia, age 27, trader, resident here, and the child was given the name Salvatore.

[vulpackleader]

Thank you!
Do you know if it was common for the mother to appear instead of the father for recording a birth? This is the first one I've run into like this.

[bbivona]

I don't see it often, but it happens from time to time, most often when the husband is away. His occupation is listed as a trader, so possibly he traveled some. Births were required to be recorded fairly quickly, so if he was away when the birth occurred, she may well have done it for that reason. I have a great uncle whose birth was was recorded by my great grandmother in the early 1880s and there is a notation that she was making the declaration because her husband was working in the countryside, far from town.

[vulpackleader]

Thanks for the info!