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No primary records of my
great-great-great-grandfather Giuseppe Abbate's birth
have been found.
His surname is given on his ecclesiastic death record as Abbate, and
on the marriage records of his children as Abate.
His parents' names are given on his death record. Because
of factors probably associated with the cholera epidemic
of that time, civil death records for 1831 and 1832 are
missing for Serradifalco. An epidemic struck
the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies that year and almost 600
residents of Serradifalco perished, about one out of
every eight people.
Besides the names of his children, and of his wife Margherita Antinorio, no other information
about Giuseppe Abbate is known for
certain. His year of birth was calculated from his
age, 56, at his death in 1832. We can be thankful
that Giuseppe's son, our ancestor also named Giuseppe,
born in about 1803, survived the cholera epidemic.
Giuseppe Abbate was not an Italian, because no
nation
called Italy existed at the time of his birth, nor at
his death. It's assumed that he was born in
Serradifalco in the Kingdom of Sicily (Lu Regnu di Sicilia, or simply
Lu Regnu) and he
died in the same town, then a part of the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies (Li Due Sicilie). He
was a Sicilian. |
