ancestry, but I am needing a little help.
My ancestor's name is Carlo Picozzi and according to ancestry.com he
was an Italian immigrant who was born in approximately 1845 and married
a woman named Emma Jarvoice in 1875 in England. They had several
children, one being Kate (my great-great grandma). She had lots of brothers and sisters including Alexander, Romolo, Eva, Lily and Harry.
I am trying to find out when he originally arrived in England and from
which part of Italy he came from. I've searched various sources on the
internet and I can't seem to find any other records for him. There is a
Camillo Picozzi listed in one Italian source who was born around 1853
in Capistrello, Abruzzo. I thought maybe this was his original name and
he changed it to Carlo to sound more English, but it may be someone
completely different.
If anyone has any information about the Picozzi family and their roots,
I would be extremely grateful. Also, if anyone can point me in the
right direction, that too would be a great help.
Thank you very much for your help.
David
It might be worth a try!
You just have to take a guess at the most likely comunes, order up the Mormon microfilms or write to the towns. If you don't find what you are looking for then you have to move on to the next town. Italy is actually missing a huge opportunity for genealogical tourism by not making an effort to centralise data.
As Wildspirit has pointed out - the name seems to be quite diffused. Suanj thinks the name may be from Lazio, and that would make sense given the dates involved. Again - I can't really comment on the English experience - only the Scottish one, but your ancestor looks as though he has come across in one of the first mass waves of migration. Before the 1860s and 70s, most Italian immigrants to Britain were skilled craftsmen. Carlo's occupation is given as 'waiter' on the 1881 census - so he doesn't fall into this category. The dates of birth for his children show that he was consistantly resident in England from the mid 1870s. If he was from the area of Lazio, that ties in quite neatly with a time of great political unrest in the region when Garibaldi and the church were slugging it out for control of the area around Rome. My earliest ancestors into Britain were what you might call 'political exiles' having fought on the wrong side!!! They also appear in the mid 1870s. Of course - poverty was another strong factor pushing people from their homes.
