Occupation

[VaDeb]

I have been trying to decipher the following occupation on a birth record from 1887: volgone. Possible other spellings are colgone, calgane. This person is a female and in the past has been a filatrice or seamstress. Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks
Debbie

[suanj]

I have been trying to decipher the following occupation on a birth record from 1887: volgone. Possible other spellings are colgone, calgane. This person is a female and in the past has been a filatrice or seamstress. Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks
Debbie

Hi Debbie: really not exist in italian this words.. not are nobody similar word associated to filatrice occupation..
suanj

[VaDeb]

Suanj, Thanks for trying to help me decipher this occupation. I will watch for it again in other records and perhaps be able to figure it out.

Debbie

[acatto]

as apready stated, there is no such word in italian, unless it exists in some local dialect, I think by the sound as a last name colgone and volgone sounds possible though (although meaningless like my last name )

[VaDeb]

I have come across this occupation again and it is clearly written as volgare. My dictionary defines this as common, coarse or vulgar. The word contadino/a is often used as a profession for this family which translates to peasant or farmer. Can the occupation volgare be interpreted as a common person, perhaps peasant. The time period is late 1870's in Villalba, Caltanissetta, Sicily.

Thanks,
Debbie

[suanj]

I have come across this occupation again and it is clearly written as volgare. My dictionary defines this as common, coarse or vulgar. The word contadino/a is often used as a profession for this family which translates to peasant or farmer. Can the occupation volgare be interpreted as a common person, perhaps peasant. The time period is late 1870's in Villalba, Caltanissetta, Sicily.

Thanks,
Debbie

Hi Debbie: "volgare" word coming from "volgo" ... "volgo" word means "people's language, or also only "people"..;
"volgare" in the past, it meant "of people or of people language" and for extension: "common woman, simply woman, not noble woman"..regards, suanj