Mariano Ferraro*

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Born: Unknown ~Marianopoli, Caltanisetta, Sicilia? 
Died: before 1838 ~Marianopoli, Caltanisetta, Sicilia?

Meaning of Ferraro [feh-RRAH-roh]: iron worker, blacksmith, smith

 

*His surname was also sometimes given as Ferrara.

 

      Civil birth records were not made in Sicily before 1820, and neither has any church baptism record been found for my GGGG-grandfather Mariano Alessi.  His existence is known from the death record, reproduced below, of his son Angelo Ferraro.

 
 

ATTO DI MORTE (RECORD OF DEATH)

 

 

 

Number 44
Year one thousand eight hundred sixty-two, day
twenty-eight of the month of
December
at hour sixteen ___ before Us Giuseppe Dato
Mayor
_____

and Official of the Public Record of the Town of
Marianopoli
District of
Caltanissetta - Province of Caltanissetta have app-
eared Liborio Isnello _________ age forty occu-
pation Gravedigger ______ subject of the realm, living in Marianopoli
and Francesco Insinna _______ age forty occupation
Trader
, ______ subject of the realm,
living in Marianopoli ___
who have declared, that on day twenty-seven of the month of

December
, ____ year current _____
at hour
one at night has died in his own house Angelo Ferra
ro,
age ninety-five, widower of Francesca Alessi his first
wife, and of Crocifissa Agr
ò his second wife ~ ~ ~
 





he was born in
Marianopoli, occupation Sharecropper, lived here while alive, son of the late Mariano, occupation                      residing here in life and of the late Grazia Burgio who resided  here when living
 

      According to the law
we went together with the named witnesses to the side of the deceased, and we have acknowledged his actual death. We have today created this document, we have inscribed it on two registers and have read it to the declarants on the day, month and year as above, and it is signed by Us
alone, excluding the witnesses, who have said they don't know how to
write
______
                                                    [Signed] The Mayor
                                  Giuseppe Dato

[The note at the bottom of the record, the last record for the year 1862, is a statement by the mayor summarizing the year's activities.]
 

From Marianopoli Registri Stato Civile Film 1438621, 1862 Deaths, No. 44, Angelo Ferraro        

This translation is factually correct.  To conserve space, it is not a strict literal translation.          

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Church Death Record

From Marianopoli Registri Ecclesiastici 2013682,  1862 Deaths, Page 15, No. 44, Angelus Ferrara           

N 44| Die Vingesima Octava Decembris 1862

15

          Angelus Ferraro viduus Francescae Alessi et Crucifixae
            
   Agrò, annorum nonaginta- quator, huius Parochiae in do
                mo sua ite in communione Sancta Matris Ecclesiae ani-
                mam suo reddidit, cuius corpus sepultum fuit in Campo
                Sancto, Josepho Alessi Cap Sacramentali Confesso, Sancti,
                 imagus Viatico refecto, et SactiOlie Unctione roborato
                
# filus Mariani, et Gratiae Burgio ~
N 44| Day twenty-eight of December 1824

15

                   Angelo Ferraro widower of Francesca Alessi and Crucifissa
            
   Agrò, age ninety- four, of this Parish in his oen
               home, passed in communion with the Holy Mother Church.  His soul
              he returned to God, his body was buried in the Holy
              Ground.  Giuseppe Alessi Sacramental Chaplain confessed him, dispensed
              the Holy Viaticum, and he was strengthened by the Holy Anointing Oils
           
  # son of Mariano, and Grazia Burgio ~

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Mariano Ferraro married Grazia Burgio

Known Children
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Angelo Ferraro: about1767 - 28 December 1862
(Married Francesca Alessi and Crocifissa Agrò)
Giuseppe Pasquale Ferraro: 2 August 1776 - ?
Leonardo Michele Ferraro: 13 Oct 1778 - ?
Felice Ferraro: 31 December 1779 - ?
Vincenzo Ferraro: ? - ?
(Married Rosa Bellavia)
Michele Ferraro: ? - ?
(Married Catalda Vullo)
 

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Gaetano & Rosina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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