I think this solves my question. From the DIZIONARIO DI ITALIANOHOEPLI EDITORE.IT

fabbriciere [fab-bri-ciè-re] s.m. (pl. -ri)

1 ECCL Chi sovrintende alla costruzione di una chiesa o è membro di una fabbriceria
]2 raro Costruttore

Builder fits his personality. I learn something new every day.

Ray

My first interpretation was fabriciere, but since that doesn't fit the character, it didn't make sense. His brother was a lay Capuchin, so I guess this man could have been a vestryman, if they existed in his religion. Was hoping he'd be a builder.

Thanks to all.

Hi, This is a stand alone word, It appears in a birth certificate of a father's son, and describes the father's profession. The word before it is the father's age, the word after it is 'domiciled,' neither one helped me to decipher the word in question.

Thanks

Hi, the word is illegible to me, anyway. Can anyone translate it?

Thanks, Ray

HI, Erudita,

Sorry I can't speak for northern Italy, but in Militello in Val di Catania and the surrounding Sicilian cities there were few death records until after 1620. Militello began recording deaths in 1589, but they remained one-liners until April 1632 when they began to be recorded with age ...

This might clarify the problems with the desth notices I referred to above.

In 1614, the introduction of the Rituale Romanum established a duty for all Catholic parishes to keep records of burials but did not require they include information about age at death. While some parishes already ...

Hi,

Via Palumbo existed at least until the end of the 1800s in Militello, but is no more. Does anyone have an old street map of the city that shows where the street was?

Thx, Ray

mmogno: It looks like Eustachio, but it would be a first.

Erudita: Too bad the C of T didn't order priests and scribes to take handwriting courses. One explanation of the death recording was that it was of an infant, and in that case only the mother's or father's name needed to be recorded. Sounds ...

HI,
I presume that if there are no other explanations, that the records do show only the patriarch's name, and not that of his family members. I don't know why this is, but can imagine a few scenarios.

One final request, still with a Palumbo, but from 1619 (the above is from 1590), any guesses as ...

Hi All,
I agree that "sep" is probably "sepultus." It would be nice if the "c" is for the word corpus (body), and that "fu" precedes these two words, as erudita74 suggests, however this is not constant throughout the document, as I would expect it to be if that were the case. In fact in the same ...

Hi,

It seems that in church records from 1590, only the head of households name is recorded with a brief notation before his name if the death is a family member. This seems odd, and I may be misinterpreting the records, but there is obvious reference to wives and children, whereas the head of ...