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Civil birth records were
not made in Sicily before 1820, but I found the church
record, in Latin, of the baptism of my great-great-great
grandfather Pasquale Domenico Coniglio.
In 1737, the Kingdom of Sicily was part of the Spanish Bourbon
empire. In 1734, Charles, Duke of
Parma,
the eldest son of King Philip V of Spain,
had conquered the kingdoms of Naples and of Sicily, and
was crowned as the King of Naples and Sicily on 3
July 1735, reigning as Carlo VII of Naples and Carlo V
of Sicily. The coin of the realm was the Spanish
reale.
Pasquale Domenico Coniglio was not a subject of
Italy, which did not exist as a nation at the time.
He was a Sicilian. |
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In 1737, American patriots John Hancock and Thomas Paine
were born, and the city of Richmond, Virginia was
founded. In the British colonies, Benjamin
Franklin established the first American city police
force, in Philadelphia. |
