Meaning of Calabrese [cah-lah-BRAZE-eh]: of or from the region Calabria

      My paternal great-grandfather Felice Pio Calabrese was born in 1786. 
       Sicily at that time was ruled by King Ferdinando I, the son and subject of King Carlos III of Spain, the first Spanish Bourbon king, who was also King Carlo V of Sicily prior to granting his son Ferdinando the throne in 1759.  The coin at the right of the image of King Carlo is the fabled Spanish Dubloon, which in 1786 was still the currency of Spain's holdings in the new world, and also in Sicily.
       In 1786 in the United States, frontiersman Davy Crockett was born.  It would be three years before the US elected its first President.

      Civil records of births were not kept before 1820.  Below is the baptismal records, in Latin of my paternal great-grandfather Felice Pio Calabrese (Felix Pius Calabrisi, in Latin), from the Chiesa San Leonardo Abate (Church of St. Leonard the Abbott) in Serradifalco.  This was the town's 'Chiesa Madre', or main church.  From the Latin word 'qounda' before the name of Felice's father (also named Felice) it can be noted that the father died before the child was born.  Sons were not usually named after their own fathers, except in cases like this, where the father died after the child was conceived, and before he was born.

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