Pandini/Follati/Bonzi

[LMills]

I am contacting this community for help researching my great great great grandmother

I recently hired a genealogist in hopes of finding my GGGGM baptismal record. My GGGGM was an orphan and given to the hospital of Como at birth. Luckily, the genealogist was able to find not only her baptismal record but also a small excerpt from the wet nurse.

Maria Pandini, a unique figure in my family history, was born on March 31, 1856, in Poggiridenti, Sondrio, Italy. Her journey began with her baptism on April 1, 1856, followed by a 5-day carriage ride accompanied by a wet nurse Francesa Polacchi to the Lake Como Hospital. The record also mentions her mother, Angela Follati of Sondrio, adding another intriguing layer to my family's past.

I am looking for a few pieces of information regarding Maria.

1. Any information on the Follati family to continue my family tree
I have found this death record of Angela Follati from Sondrio; however, I am unsure if it is hers.

https://www.familysearch.org/records/im ... eView=true

2. A death announcement from Lanzo, Italy. (I have hit a brick wall trying to find this.) - Death April 3, 1897, Married to Pietro Bonzi, lived in Bre, Switzerland at time of death

3. Any insight into why her last name would have been Pandini?

[Tessa78]

Luckily, the genealogist was able to find not only her baptismal record but also a small excerpt from the wet nurse

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You will need to provide images of these to help the search.

T.

[LMills]

Let me know if this attachment works

[Tessa78]

It does!

Thank you.

T.

[LMills]

2. A death announcement from Lanzo, Italy. (I have hit a brick wall trying to find this.) - Death April 3, 1897, Married to Angelo Bonzi, lived in Bre, Switzerland at time of death

[Tessa78]

I tried searching in Lanzo For obese for her death, but unsuccessfully.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/cat ... %20Library

You say it was a "death announcement". - a letter? a document? What form?

T.

[LMills]

Tessa,
I appreciate your help. Please see the attachment, which is her death record from Bre, Switzerland. I am looking for the death announcement that would have been posted in Lanzo D'Intelvi.

[Tessa78]

Thank you for the record.

First, the surname Pandini, along with the given name Maria, would have been given to her by the local official when she was presented to the official for the registration of birth. Most abandoned children were given names created by the official, fantasy names, that were usually made up.
The first document you provided included the baptism (#68) provided by the parish of S. Felice in the comune of Pendolasco and indicating that the child was born on 31 March 1856 to Angela Folatti and unknown father, and was baptized on 1 April 1856 in that parish.

The second document appears to be a civil document (#100) from the town of Pendolasco indicating that the child Maria Pandini, who was born 31 March 1856 to Angela Folatti of Sondrio and father unknown, and baptized 1 April 1856, was consigned to Francesca Polachi to be delivered to the Hospital of the Esposti (exposed) in Como. This would be a Foundling hospital
A final annotation was made on this record on April 1856 (#654)

The death act you posted indicates that Maria Bonzi died in Bri (e' morta a Bri) and appears to be an Italian document from the Register of Deaths {series} A.

I have checked the death acts in 1897 in Lanzo D'Intelvi for the record without success. I also searched the allegati page by page but did not find it. However, I noticed in the Allegati that the death documents were similar to the one you posted. I believe that Maria's husband made the request that her death act be registered in the town of Lanzo, and that the document you have is a copy of that registration. And I believe that it is somewhere in the Allegati for that year.

Maybe someone else here at the forum can take a look at everything and be more successful.

T.

[LMills]

Thanks so much for your help, T!

I find the birth records really fascinating. I can't help but imagine all the possible stories behind why she was put up for adoption. It's comforting to know that her mother's name was included in the record.

Do you have any idea why they would have included the mother's name instead of leaving it out?

I've been searching through the Lanzo records online, but unfortunately, I haven't found anything. I think I may need to contact another genealogist in the area to find the announcement.

[Tessa78]

I have no idea why they included the mother's name. It is possible that the mother died in childbirth. It does state that the mother was of Sondrio. Perhaps there is a death act for her?

T.

[LMills]

Wow, I did not even think of that.

Now you have my wheels turning. I will check through Sondrio's death records for that year to see if I can find anything for her.

Thanks again!

[Tessa78]

It is likely that she died in the place where her child was born/baptized.
So you might also want to check for a death in the town of Pendolasco.

OR... request a search at the parish of S. Fedele (I misidentified this as Felice in earlier post) in Pendolasco where the baptism occurred.

T.

[LMills]

Any thoughts on Maria's mother, Angela Folatti? I feel like I have hit a brick wall with her.

[Tessa78]

Just what I posted above.

Here are the towns where the Folatti surname is found in the Lombardy Region.
Perhaps a search of birth/death records will yield something.

Folatti 16.24 Torre di Santa Maria Sondrio
Folatti 11.75 Sondrio Sondrio
Folatti 7.29 Chiesa in Valmalenco Sondrio
Folatti 6.87 Milano Milano
Folatti 2.57 Barlassina Monza e della Brianza
Folatti 2.32 Tresivio Sondrio

T.

[Tessa78]

POSSIBLE death act of Angela Folatti...

This death act is for Angela Maria Folatti in Sondrio in 1888.
#17
Dated 1 March - death on same day.
Angela Maria Folatti was age 68 (so making her born about 1820?).
She was a domestic, unmarried, resident of Sondrio, born in Torre di Santa Maria to deceased Lorenzo Folatti, who was a peasant farmer; and to deceased Giovanna Dell'Agostino, farmer; both residents of Torre di Santa Maria in their lifetimes.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... cc=2043841

T.