Salvatore Pino

[Biff83]

Marriage Record for Salvatore Maria Pino and Anna Maria Congiu from San Vito. It's handwritten; could use help deciphering. Can you help Tessa? Thanks. I've begun extracting the record in the next response.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1 ... cc=2043426

Biff

[Biff83]

Date of marriage appears to be 11 June 1911. Based on the above marriage record it appears that Anna Maria's parents were the deceased Antonio Congiu and Chiara Matsuzzu and Anna Maria was born 5 Nov 1891 in San Vito and that Salvatore was born in December of 1881 in Santu Lussurgiu to unknown parents. Records shows date of birth as the 3rd but I'm sure the birth record Tessa posted is the correct one.

Here's a birth record for a sister Giuseppina Congiu with the same parents, born 2 Dec 1895. Antonio's father was Giovanni and Chiara's Pietro. Antonio was alive in 1895 so he passed sometime between 1895 and 1911 at the time of Anna Maria's marriage.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1 ... cc=2043426

Biff

[Tessa78]

Hi Biff! Great find!

Sorry, I had signed off. Will look at your translation now.
A quick look - it appears that the marriage took place somewhere else (Galat-Lucano???), and the marriage was sent to and recorded in the San Vito marriage book in Parte II. Will double check...

BTW - the Salvatore Pino (Dec 1881) is the birth act I posted earlier. So we have the correct act.

EDIT TO ADD***
Your translation looks great.
Chiara Matzuzzi (living) is identified as age 43 and a housewife.
The town of San Vito released the death act (for Anna Maria's Father?)
The banns were posed on 26 December and 2 January (in Galat-Lucano)
The official saw the acts of birth and the certificate of no opposition.


T.

[Biff83]

Thanks, T. Could you check the following? I'm not sure about the handwriting.

EDITED to correct surnames and add Chiara's occupation per Tessa's post.

6 Aug 1886 marriage record for Antonio Congiu and Chiara Matzuzzi.
Antonio, 21, a miner, son of the living Giovanni and Vincenza Pilia
Chiara, 17, a housewife, daughter of the living Pietro and Maria Zicca

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1 ... cc=2043426

Biff

[Tessa78]

Nice find, again, Biff!

Antonio was 21yo miner, born and residing San Vito; son of Giovanni, and of Vincenza Pilia
Chiara was 17yo housewife [massaria], born and residing San Vito; daughter of Pietro and of Maria Zicca.

Your date is also correct.

Since the record was a transcription of a copy from Cagliari, it might be interesting to find the other copy - probably also in a part 2. The original would have been in Galat-Lucano --- any idea where that is?

T.

[Biff83]

Since the record was a transcription of a copy from Cagliari, it might be interesting to find the other copy - probably also in a part 2. The original would have been in Galat-Lucano --- any idea where that is?

T.

I'm going bonkers; unable to find anything about Galat-Lucano or anything close.

Biff

[Biff83]

Tanya,

This is the 1921 Nova Scotia census from your tree. It appears that all of the children were born in the US and Salvatore and Josephine's immigration year shows as 1914. Since the youngest son Antonio is 7 months old, they would have had to be living in the states from 1916 (Americo/Merrick's approx birth year) through about 1920 if the census is correct.

https://www.ancestry.com/media/viewer/v ... PUBJs=true

Biff

[Tanya]

That census on my tree shouldn't be there; it's not my grandfather. I don't know how I accepted it for my grandfather. They never had a child named Antonio... they had Americo in 1916 in Canada, who was their first child.

[Biff83]

That census on my tree shouldn't be there; it's not my grandfather. I don't know how I accepted it for my grandfather. They never had a child named Antonio... they had Americo in 1916 in Canada, who was their first child.

Thanks for clarifying that. My subscription to Ancestry only covers US records. Have you had any luck locating any other Canadian records--census, naturalization, death, etc.?

Biff

[Tanya]

Biff,

I apologize for any misleading info from my tree. I am not the greatest when it comes to ancestry research.

I have his death certificate from Canada, but it has an approximate DOB and parents were not listed. My uncle provided the information for the death certificate at the time of his death, so it contained the information to the best of his knowledge. He has long since passed as well.

[Biff83]

Congius currently living in San Vito from Italian white pages:

http://www.paginebianche.it/ricerca?qs= ... o+%28CA%29

Biff

[Biff83]

General naturalization info for a Salvatore Pino, steel worker, Sydney, NS, Nov 30, 1936, #149049 A

http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id= ... on19151936

Biff

[Biff83]

I I think I've found their June 1914 Canadian manifest. See lines 5 and 6. Not sure what the manifest markings mean. This means they sailed direct from Europe to Canada; I believe the ship departed from London. Timing is everything since 6 weeks after their arrival WWI started in Europe.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1 ... cc=1823240

Biff

[Tessa78]

Great find, Biff!!

I think you have found them.
The heavy writing looks like it says "joiner" - but not sure. The columns would have been for dates if they had been to Canada before, but they answered "no"
Their destination was Montreal, Province of Quebec, and it looks like they had (according to the first column) railway tickets for the continuation of their journey. The "C.P.R." marking on the far right indicates travel on the Canadian Pacific Railway, I believe.
He was working as a "Coppersmith" and would be doing that work in Canada. Not sure what "Blywork" refers to, but the dates 1907-1914 are indicated.
The ship is the Ionian.

You are sooo correct about timing being everything!

T.

[Biff83]

Thanks, T.

The C.P.R. appreviation is for the Canadian Pacific Railway; the other major line was the Canadian National.

I believe the 1921 census reference above is indeed the correct family although the birth locations of the children are incorrect. Sydney, NS is correct as is the 1914 immigration year, and based on information from listings on findagrave which include obituaries all of the children are correct.

I'm also fairly sure the naturalization reference is correct; it's not a great leap to see Salvatore whose occupation was a coppersmith become a steel worker at the Sydney Steel plant in Cape Breton.

Along the way I found this source which contains Salvatore's second marriage in 1930, his son Americo's marriage in 1937, Salvatore's death as well as what appears to be death record for a daughter from his second marriage. I was unable to locate any death info for his first wife Anna Maria Congiu.

https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/

Biff