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From Mussomeli Registri
Ecclesiastici 2013876,
1812 Baptisms, Page
176, FamilySearch image 382 of 3185
Joseph Spoto Milichello |
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Salvator Spoto
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Joseph Salvator
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Anno Dni Millmo Octingmo decimo 2do
1. Ind 1812
176
Die 27 Sept
Ego Sacs Petrus
Messina Cappus Sacrs huius Parlis Ecle
baptizavi infantem hodie hora 15 circitr ex
Salvatore, et Maria
Spoto jug. natum. Cui impositum
fuit nomen Joseph Salva-
tor. Pni fuere
Salvator et Vincentia Guasto conj. |
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Salvatore Spoto
father
Giuseppe Salvatore
son |
Year
of Our Lord
One Thousand Eight hundred twelve
Index 2
1812 176
Day 27th of September
I, Priest Pietro Messina,
Sacramental Chaplain,
baptized an infant boy born
today at about
hour 15, of Salvatore and Maria
Spoto, a married
couple. The child was given
the
name Giuseppe Salva-
tore. Godparents were Salvatore and
Vincenza Guasto, a married couple. |
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The 1837 civil
record of the
marriage promise reproduced below, for Angela
Bongiovanni's maternal
great-great-great-grandparents
Giuseppe Spoto and Maria Carmela
Faldetta, covers four pages. The form is in two columns, on the
left showing the Record of the Solemn Promise to
celebrate matrimony, while the right-hand column is
entitled 'Indication of the
subsequent canonical [church]
celebration of marriage'.
Only the left column of the record is translated below.
Essentially, the left column gives the details of the
civil promise made at the Town Hall, while the right
column simply confirms that the couple was married in
church on 3 April 1837 in the presence of witnesses
Vincenzo Messina,
Vincenzo Benfante,
Carmelo Scannella
and Michele Castiglione and that the civil and church records were
cross-referenced.
In many cases, the actual marriage
may have taken place days, weeks or months after the
promise, as in this case. In cases where the right side of the
civil form
was not completed, it's likely that the marriage never
occurred.
This record is only the 5 March 1837
promise, or
contract to
marry, but it contains much more information than the
actual marriage record made by the church. Click
on the images at left to see the original documents. |
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RECORD OF THE SOLEMN PROMISE
to celebrate
matrimony |
[p. 1]
Number
17
Year eighteen hundred
thirty-seven,
day five
of the month of
March
at hour
twentyone,
before Us,
Doctor Vincenzo Sorce, Mayor
and official of the Civil Record of the town of
Mussomeli,
district of
Caltanissetta,
Province of
Caltanissetta,
have appeared in the Town Hall:
Giuseppe
Spoto,
age
twenty-four,
born in
Mussomeli,
district of
as above,
Province of
as above,
condition
peasant
villager,
living in
Mussomeli,
son of
the late Salvatore,
age ______
occupation
______ living
here in
life,
and
of the
late Maria
Volante
age
,
living
here in
life: and
Maria Carmela Faldetta,
age
twenty-five,
born in
Mussomeli,
living
here,
daughter of
the late Carmelo age
,
occupation
living
here in
life,
and of
Marianna
Piazza
age
fifty-six,
who lives
here.
The couple,
in the
presence of
witnesses who
will be
mentioned below,
and produced by them,
have
requested to receive
their solemn
promise to celebrate
prior to the
Church ceremony,
according to the
format
prescribed
by the Sacred
Coun-
[p. 2]cil of
Trent for the
marriage which they plan between them
with the
support of the mother of the
bride.
The notice of this promise was affixed
to the door of the town hall of
Mussomeli on
Sunday the
sixth day of the
month of
February of the
current
year.
We, in accordance
with
their request,
after having
read
them
all the
consistent
documents:
First,
the birth record of the groom
Second, the birth record of the bride
Third,
the marriage banns made in this
[p. 3]Town
where they both live, to which there
have been no objections
Fourth, the death record of the father
of the groom
Fifth, the death record of the mother of the groom
Sixth, the death record of the paternal
grandfather of the groom
Seventh, the death record of the
father of the bride
Eighth, the death record of the paternal
grandfather of the bride. |
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Page 3 continues:
and
having also read chapter six
under the title of
marriage
of the
civil laws
regarding the
respective
rights and obligations
of the spouses,
we have received from
each
of the parties,
one after
the other, the
declaration, that they
solemnly
promise to
celebrate
the marriage
before the
Church according to
the format
prescribed
by the
Holy Council
of Trent.
We made
the record of all this
in the presence
of
four witnesses
attending
the solemn
promise of marriage:
Vincenzo
Messina,
age
thirty-three,
condition peasant
villager
subject of the realm of the Two Sicilies, living at
Strada Cagnina;
Vincenzo
Benfante,
age twenty-nine,
condition peasant
villager
[p. 4]
subject of the realm,
living
here;
Carmelo
Scannella,
age
thirty,
condition
peasant villager
subject of the realm, living
here;
and
Michele
Castiglione,
age twenty-seven,
condition peasant
villager
subject of the realm,
living
here;
We have read
this record, which is inscribed on the two registers, to
the witnesses
and
the bride and
groom, to whom
we have also
given two consistent
copies signed
by Us, to be
presented to the
parish priest,
to whom the celebration
of the
marriage pertains,
and then
it is signed
by us
alone, the betrothed, the
mother of the betrothed and the witnesses being
illiterate. |
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The Mayor
[Signed]
Vincenzo Sorce
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From
Mussomeli Registri Stato Civile Film
1438826,
1837 Marriages, No. 17 Giuseppe Spoto and Maria Carmela
Faldetta |
