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by scarlet217
15 Jul 2025, 03:07
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Re: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions


Hello scarlet217,
it basically says that the child was presented at 9 am of the 2nd of March 1890 by thirty-year-old Rosaria Canzoneri, receiver of foundlings, to the Mayor of Alcamo, who gave him the name of Rosario Ionio. The child was exposed, that is, was placed in the wheel of foundlings of ...
by scarlet217
07 Jul 2025, 22:34
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Re: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions


Here is updated link to the birth act of Rosario Ionio that suanj :D posted.
It begins at bottom of image 237, and on to next image 238.
Birth act #14
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16072923/wQq2d99

His name was given to him by the official because he was a foundling.

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by scarlet217
07 Jul 2025, 22:32
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Re: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions

I thank you so much for that, but wow that's really small writing and scrolling in it gets blurry, how can you read that? Is there another picture of both pages where I can actually see it? or a full translation? Please and thank you.
by scarlet217
06 Jul 2025, 20:40
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Re: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions


Never adopted, just he used a different name in USA, but no on WWI draft registration card.. the genealogic tree on familysearch is no right, because no one know who was his parents.. but maybe the same rosaria Canzoneri, because she stated to wish be his nurse.. so dry nurse maybe... because if ...
by scarlet217
06 Jul 2025, 20:27
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Re: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions


Rosario IONIO had not been left on a doorstep but at the "wheel of foundlings" of the Alcamo civic hospital on 2 Mar 1890. The lady in charge of receiving the foundlings was Rosaria Canzoneri.
The same Rosaria Canzoneri of 30 years, wife of Vincenzo Renda (so I think the spelling is) asked to ...
by scarlet217
19 Apr 2022, 02:36
Forum: Italian Genealogy
Topic: Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions
Replies: 9
Views: 20275

Supposed adopted great grandfather, many questions

The story goes that my husbands great-grandfather was left on a doorstep and then adopted. When my husbands mother was young that is all she was told. When the elders spoke they always spoke in Italian, as none of the kids did, and everything was always hush hush. We do have a birthday (though not ...