Anna Cammarata

Born: about 1768 -Serradifalco, Caltanisetta, Sicilia?
Died: before 1824 -Serradifalco, Caltanisetta, Sicilia?

Meaning of Cammarata [kah-muh-RAH-tuh]: chambered, enclosed

 

        I have not yet found any records of baptism or death for my great-great-great-grandmother Anna Cammarata, but I know her name and the names of her father, from her church marriage record, and her name from the death record of her husband Michele Vella.  Her mother's name is known from the death records of her siblings.  Her year of birth is estimated as about the same as her husband's.
        Her name was given as Anna Cammarata on the 1824 death record of her daughter Maria Vella, and as Marta Miccichè on the 1824 death record of her son Pasquale Vella. But the name and address of his father Michele Vella is the same as on Maria Vella's death record, which (correctly) shows her mother as Anna Cammarata. Anna's surname is given as Pignataro on the 1850 death record of her daughter Michela Vella, but other evidence suggests that is an error, possibly an 'nciuria, or nickname.
 

        This map of Sicily was produced in 1762, the estimated year of Anna Cammarata's birth.  Seven hundred years after the defeat of the Saracens, Sicily was still shown as comprised of of three "Vals" or districts.  The word "Val", and the delineation, dated from the Arab rule, and corresponded to the three "points" of Sicily: Val Demone in the northeast, Val di Noto in the southeast, and Val di Mazara in the west. 
         Serradifalco, shown by *, lies in the old Val di Mazara, but it is very near the other Vals as well.
 

        Civil records were not kept in Sicily until about 1820.  Before that time, records of baptism, confirmation, marriage and death were kept by the church, one of the few entities whose administrators could read or write.  The official church language was Latin.

Matri moni  (Marriages)

From Serradifalco Reg. Eccles. Film 2013010, 1779 Marriages, Page 94, Michael Vella and Anna Cammarata, FamilySearch image 419/3133   

  Die 27: Junii 79: Premissis denunc:bs: 3bus Diebus festivis quaras 1afuit 30: Maj, 3:6: Junii
     inter Missara solemnia nulloq. sine leg:mo sine Cac:co detecto imp:to Ego Sacd Ant:nus Sa . .
     huius Matricis Ecl: sub titulo S: Leonardi Archip: Michaeles Vella innup:m f: et n: qda Vin . . .
     et viv: Mariae Archidipane et Anna Cammarata innup:m f:l: et n: qda Cataldi et viv: [Caterina Giumenta]
     . . .  jug: interogavi eorusq: habito mutuo consa matm.o in facie Eccl conjunxi . . . .
     testibus Francisco Inzalaco et D. Paolino Marino et . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  Day 27 of June 1879: Marriage banns posted before Mass on 3 feast days of which the 1st  
     was 30 May, then 3 and 6 June.     During the Solemn Masses no objections were noted, neither
      legal nor canonical.  I, Priest Antonio Sa . . .   Archpriest [of] this Mother Church of San
     Leonardo, joined Michele Vella, bachelor natural son of the late Vin . . .  and the living [Caterina Giumenta]
     Arcidipane; and Anna Cammarata maiden legitimate and natural daughter of the late
     Cataldo and the living . . . , a married couple.  I interviewed them, and having received
     their mutual consent,  in the eyes of the Church, I married them . . . .
     Witnesses were Francesco Inzalaco and Don Paolino Marino, and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 

       The death record of Anna Cammarata's husband Michele Vella does not indicate whether his wife or parents were living or dead at the time of his death.  While absence of such information is usually assumed to mean that they were living, the death records of two of Michele's children in 1824 indicate that their mother had died before that time.  I have not yet found either a civil or church death record for Anna.

 

Church Death Record

       Civil death records are missing for 1831 and 1832.  Church records exist, but are frayed and damaged.  Both the index of deaths and the actual record was used to confirm the information for Michele Vella.  The record does not indicate whether his wife or parents were living or dead at the time of his death.  While absence of such information is usually assumed to mean that they were living, the death records of two of Michele's children in 1824 indicate that their mother had died before that time.

  [Vella Mic]hael Vir Annae Cammarata    ----  fo  142 ~

  [Vella Mic]hele Husband of Anna Cammarata - pg 142 ~

From Serradifalco Registri Ecclesiastici 2013010,  1832 Death Index, Michael Vella   

 

From Serradifalco Registri Ecclesiastici 2013010,  1832 Deaths, p. 142, No. 53, Michael Vella   

[Vel]la Die 7: Martii 1832              No 53 ~
 [Mic]hael  Vella  Vir  Annae Cammarata  et filius  Pa-
 [scha]lis et Mariae, annorum septuaginta extremis
 munitus Sacramentis obbiit cuius corpus delatto fu-
  . . ad Ecclesiam Conceptionis per Rm D Joannem
 Petix Cappellanum ibique sepultum
 

 Anna Cammarata married Michele Vella

Known Children

 Maria Vella: abt 1786 - 8 Sep 1824 (Married Calogero Tabbone)
Pasquale Vella: abt 1891 - 24 Jun 1824 (Married Leonarda Miccichè)
Michela Vella: abt 1797 - 29 Oct 1850 (Married Leonardo di Giugno)
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Gaetano & Rosina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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