Toscano family

[mjclayton1]

Nothing found for Giovanni - not surprising...

[AngelaGrace56]

Can't believe I just noticed that I don't Givoanni's death record (my Tree says "Bef. 1859), so there may yet be a connection to be found. If that's in the cards (available in the Antenati records), I'm betting Angela will beat me to it...

I don't know which Giovanni Rago you mean? I suspect that the reason why you have a question mark is because the death record is not on line. There are quite a few records missing. (At a guess, was his wife Isabella Rosa Favale?)

Angela

[AngelaGrace56]

This will confirm things and take you back a little further on the Sarapo side with another name to research.


1855 Marriage No 4: Matteo, Antonio, Vincenzo Rago and Rosolia Toscano

Saponara: 15 February 1855

Appearing before the official were:

Groom: Matteo, Antonio, Vincenzo Rago, 25 yo (c.1830), born and living in Saponara, a Contadino, son of Giuseppe Rago, also a contadino, and of the deceased Rosolia Toscano, who had lived in Toscano when living.

Bride: Maddalena Sarapo, 16 yo (c.1839) born and living in Saponara, daughter of Luigi Sarapo, a contadino, and of the deceased Bernarda Bianculli.

Church marriage took place on 15 February 1855 in the Parish of Saponara. Witnesses were Vincenzo Argenzio and Prospero Argenzio.

Allegati (supporting documents) were:

1. Birth Act of the groom
2. Birth Act of the bride
3. Death Extract of the mother of the groom
4. Death Extract of the mother of the bride
5. Extrac of tthe Notificazione which resulted in no opposition to the marriage taking place.
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... JK?lang=en

Angela

[AngelaGrace56]

I've located the marriage attachments (allegati) that were listed on the Marriage Record I posted above earlier. In this time frame they were called Marriage Processetti. Depending on how much information they contain, they can be a real gold mine for the genealogist.

1855 Marriage Processetti: Matteo, Antonio Vincenzo Rago and Maddalena Sarapo begins here:
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 98/LeRgD4e

It begins with a Cover Sheet, and then a copy of the Marriage record on page 17 of 300.

Page 19 is the groom’s 1829 birth extract: https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 98/wWrpzM2

Page 20 is the bride’s 1838 birth extract:
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... a19180798/

Page 21 is the 1850 Death Extract pertaining to Rosolia Toscano, mother of the groom. She died on 7 September 1850, in her own house, at the age of 50. She was born and living in Saponara, the daughter of Vincenzo Toscano, a bracciale (day labourer), and of the deceased Teresa Forte; and the husband of Giuseppe Rago.
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 98/LDQea4v

Page 23 is the 1840 Death Extract pertaining to Bernarda Bianculli, mother of the bride.
Luigi Sarapo, husband of the deceased, 24 yo, contadino, and Antonio Sarapo, brotherinlaw of the deceased, 22 yo, pastore (shepherd) reported the death. Bernarda died on 5 September 1840, in her own home, was born and living in Saponara, a filatrice (spinner). She was the daughter of Giuseppe Bianculli, a mugnaio (miller), living in Saponara, and of Mariantonia Giliberti, living with her husband; and the wife of Luigi Sarapo. She was 22 yo.
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... 98/wbRXDav

Here is the original Death Record No 8 which is much clearer: https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12 ... Dx?lang=en

Angela

[mjclayton1]

Hi, Angela-

You've provided a crazy amount of genealogical info for bobtoni here to process/consider. Awesome job...

Not to get you too side-tracked here (truth be told, that was part of the "point" of all of this - at least for me), but the Giovanni Rago I'm referring to is Carol's 3x ggf, on her mom's side. Gio was married to Rosa Tornese (b: Abt. 1806; d: Aft. 1859). My supposition had been that Gio was perhaps a brother of Giuseppe Rago - one of bobtoni's ancestors. Not sure that connection can be made...

I will add here that Carol's maternal great-grandparents were Antonio Rago and Maria Giuseppa Favale, so you probably weren't that far off in your "Favale" guess...

Beyond that, her maternal grandfather, Giuseppe Rago (renamed Giorgio Giuseppe Rago in the States) actually was one of the Rago's who emigrated to Los Banos. He arrived in 1914 - in Boston, not NY's Ellis Island - as a 17 year old (b: 25 Feb 1898 in Saponara), along with the father of his sister-in-law: Antonio Bafunno (b: 28 May 1868) - father of Giuseppina Bafunno (b: 2 Sep 1901), who was the spouse of Giorgio's older brother, Vincenzo Rago (b: 29 Dec 1892, in Saponara di Grumento). Giorgio was going to see his siblings, Vincenzo, and also Rosa (aka Annarosa) Rago (b: 3 oct 1895), in Los Banos ("Box 188"). (BTW, Rosa's spouse was Antonio Caputi, son of Vincenzo Caputi). Antonio Bafunno appeared to be going to the same place, but to see his wife, Caterina Fruguglietti (Mar. 24 Dec 1901)...

Anyway, probably (WAY) TMI there, so maybe I'll sit back and wait for more of your "fireworks" here! However, if you're interested, the 1914 ship record that I've noted is included below...

(Lines 23 and 24)...

RAGO Giuseppe S.S. Palermo arriving in Boston 20 Jul 1914 (1).jpg

RAGO Giuseppe S.S. Palermo arriving in Boston 20 Jul 1914 (2).jpg

RAGO Giuseppe S.S. Palermo arriving in Boston 20 Jul 1914 (3).jpg

[mjclayton1]

And last page here (exceeded MB limit above)...

RAGO Giuseppe S.S. Palermo arriving in Boston 20 Jul 1914 (4).jpg

[bobtoni]

Mark,

As you probably know Los Banos, Ca, was the destination for a significant number of families from Grumneto Nova. I still need to gather some dates and names for my mother's side of the family, but her mother was Rosa Baffunno. So there could be a connection to the Bafunno family you mention. I still have relatives in Los Banos, but the spelling of their name is Baffunno.

[mjclayton1]

Mark,

As you probably know Los Banos, Ca, was the destination for a significant number of families from Grumneto Nova. I still need to gather some dates and names for my mother's side of the family, but her mother was Rosa Baffunno. So there could be a connection to the Bafunno family you mention. I still have relatives in Los Banos, but the spelling of their name is Baffunno.

Hi, Robert-

Yes, you may be right. There could even be a connection to the Toscano name, as Carol also has directs there, although the closest (direct) ancestor is her 3rd great-grandmother, Rosa Toscano (b: abt. 1818; d:16 Mar 1892), she being the spouse of one Pasquale Spadafora (b: abt. 1810; d: 2 May 1890)...

The directs then go back to her 4th great-grandfather, Bernardo Toscano (b: abt. 1793; d: 30 Jan 1873) and then up one more level to her 5th great-grandfather, Donato Toscano (b: abt. 1767-1770; d: 10 Sep 1840). Even given these names, however, I wasn't able to connect to your Francesco Toscano or Nicola Toscano ancestors. At least not yet...

As to Bafunno, at this juncture, I only have a small handful of those surnames, but did pick up two of Giuseppina's siblings earlier: Domenico (b: 26 Jul 1907) and Carmela (b: 14 Aug 1910)...

[bobtoni]

Another name connection that I have is Caputi, from my father's mother's side of the family. His maternal grandmother was Rosalia Casella. Her parents were Francesco Paulo Casella and Carmina Caputi. That history was completed by AngelaGrace in 2019 for one of my cousins. As child, I can remember my father saying that his grandmother, Rosalia, and her father were the only survivors of her immediate family from the earthquake.