pompeo updates part 6 (amedio's second great grandparents)

My last posts went through Amedio Pompeo's great grandparents, now it is time to look at his second great grandparents; which are:

1. Raffaele Pompeo and Felicia d'Angelo : Between the years 1866-1928, there were only two children listed in the death records in Torre de Passeri for Raffaele Pompeo and Felicia d'Angelo.  The oldest son of Amedio's 2nd great grandparents is Domenico Antonio Pompeo(Amedio's great grandfather), the younger son would be Amedio's second great uncle, Carminantonio.  Both sons were born, and died, in Torre de Passeri.  Their father, Raffaele, also was born in Torre de Passeri, and died there at the age of 81 in 1880.  I was unable to locate their mother Felicia d'Angelo's death record, which must have occurred before 1866. (before this year records are not available online at this time)
2. Pasquale Caldarelli and Giovanna di Bartolomeo : Another set of Amedio's second great grandparents, Pasquale Caldarelli and Giovanna di Bartolomeo, also lived their lives in Torre de Passeri.  They had four children, all daughters, that I could find in the Italian death records online.  Both Pasquale and Giovanna lived a long life, Pasquale died in 1867 at the age of 70, and Giovanna died four years later in 1871 at the age of 80.
3. Giambattista Cappola and Fedele di Constantino : Amedio's third set of second great grandparents on the Pompeo line, Giambattista Cappola and Fedele di Constantino, had two sons that I found in the Italian death records online.  Their oldest son, Paolo, lived until he was 93 years old.  Theses sons lived their lives in Torre de Passeri, just like most of Amedio's ancestors.  I am guessing that Giambattista and Fedele also lived and died in Torre de Passeri, but they must have died before 1866 as I could not find either of them in the death records after that date. 
4. Ferdinando di Bartolomeo and Francesca di Domenico : The last set of second great grandparents on Amedio's paternal Pompeo side are Ferdinando di Bartolomeo and Francesca di Domenico.   They had at least four children, three girls and one boy, all born and died in Torre de Passeri.  The oldest was Amedio's great grandmother Donata Gaetana di Bartolomeo.  There is a large gap of about 11 years between the second and third daughters, so it is likely Ferdinando and Francesca had more children that may have died at a young age.  Francesca died in 1869 at the age of 77.  Her death record states she is a widow, so her husband Ferdinando died before 1869.  His death record is not online, so Ferdinando probably died before 1866.
5. Lorenzo Gagliardi and Benedetta d'Innacenzo : Amedio's first set of second great grandparents on his maternal Gagliardi line is Lorenzo Gagliardi and Benedetta D'Innacenzo.  The Italian death records online show that Lorenzo and Benedetta had only one child, Amedio's great grandfather Domencio Antonio Gagliardi.  The may have had more children that died before 1866, as these records are not available online at this time.  The deaths of Lorenzo and Benedetta also must have occurred before 1866, probably in Torre de Passeri. 
6. Cristofaro de Novellis and Marianna Ciavarro : Another set of Amedio's second great granparents on his maternal Gagliardi line are Cristofaro De Novellis and Mariann Ciavarro.  They had at least three children that showed up in the Italian death records online, a son and two daughetrs.  All of their children lived in Torre de Passeri.  Cristofaro and Marianna probably died before 1866, as their deaths are not in the online records after this date. 
7. unkown and unknown (parents of Angelo Sante di Lorenzo)
8. Guiseppe di Rico and Guiseppa Delgenzo : The last set of second great grandparents on Amedio's maternal line are Guiseppe di Rico and Guiseppa Delgenzo.  The death records in Torre de Passeri show they had at least three daughters, all born in the neighboring town of San Valentino.  These daughters eventually moved to Torre de Passeri, possibly after their parents died.  One daughter, Francesca, never married, but probably lived with her sister Maria Giacinta, as Francesca's death record states she died at Maria's house.  According to their daughters' death records, Guiseppe and Guiseppa lived their lives in San Valentino.  They both died before 1868, when their daughter Francesca's death record states they are deceased. 

pompeo updates part 5 (amedio's great grandparents)

Amedio's last set of great grandparents on his maternal line, Angelo Sante di Lorenzo and Raffeala di Rico, lived in San Valentino (present name is San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore), a neighboring town of Torre de Passeri, Italy. 

Angelo Sante di Lorenzo and Raffaela di Rico family chart
The birth records available online do not go back before 1866 in San Valentino, so I am not sure if they had more than two children.  Even though their two daughters were born in San Valentino, I found them through their marriage records in Torre de Passeri, as they both married men in that commune.  Amedio's great grandmother Donata Lucia married Ruggiero Gagliardi. 

Angelo Sante di Lorenzo was deceased by 1871, when his oldest daughter was married.  The death records for San Valentino do not go back before 1871 online at FamilySearch, so I am unable to bring Angelo's line back any further.  I will have to order microfilm for San Valentino to find some more ancestors, and possibly find more children of Angelo and Raffaela. 

Angelo's wife, Raffeala di Rico, moved to Torre de Passeri at some point after her husband Angelo's death.  She died in Torre de Passeri in 1892 at the age of 72.  According to her death record, she did not remarry after her husband died.

Looking through the records for both the communes of Torre de Passeri and San Valentino, there are more di Lorenzo's in Torre de Passeri than in San Valentino; however, there are many di Rico's in San Valentino.  It seems likely that Angelo's family may have been from Torre de Passeri and he moved to San Valentino, where his wife Raffeala di Rico was born.  If I find Angelo's death or marriage record from the San Valentino microfilm, it will show where Angelo was born. 

The map below shows the two communes/towns, divided by a mountain.  Torre de Passeri is the red marker, San Valentino is the green marker.   



This is a view of the mountains from San Valentino - image from panoramio user Gracia Yolanda.

This is a picture of the cathedral in San Valentino from the Wikipedia page.

pompeo updates part 4 (amedio's great grandparents)

Amedio Pompeo's third set of great grandparents, this time on his maternal side (Angelina Gagliardi), were Domenico Antonio Gagliardi and Chiarra de Novellis.  They were also both born, and died, in Torre de Passeri, Italy. 

Since the records only begin in 1866 online at familysearch.org, I had to look through the death indexes for Torre de Passeri to find Domenico and Chiarra's children.  I could only find three children in the marriage and death records, the oldest was Ruggiero (Amedio's grandfather), and then two daughters.  There are some gaps between births, about 8 years between Ruggiero and Metilde, and about 9 years between Metilde and Amerina, which probably means they had more children in between.  I would have to order the microfilm of the civil records from 1809 - 1910 from FamilySearch to find other children they may have had.   


Domenico Antonio Gagliardi and Chiarra de Novellis family chart
All three of Domenico and Chiarra's children that I did find married in Torre de Passeri, and none of them left Italy.  Their middle daughter, Amedio's Great Aunt Metilde, had at least three children which probably also remained in Italy as there are no records for them in the US.  Domenico and Chiarra's youngest daughter, Amedio's Great Aunt Amerina, may have had children, but there are no records of any in Torre de Passeri; however, she and her husband may have been living in another town, as Amerina died in Masseria, Italy.  Amerina died at the age of 32, only two years after her father Domenico died, and six years before her mother Chiarra died.  Domenico and Chiarra's oldest son was Amedio's grandfather Ruggiero.  I have written a bit about this family and Angelina's siblings here.  They had 8 children, four of which settled in Quincy, MA, Cristofaro, Angelina, Secondina and Geocinta, Amedio's aunts and uncles. 

Domenico and Chiarra lived long lives in Italy.  Domenico died at the age of 75 in 1896, about 7 years before his wife Chiarra died at the age of 80 in 1904. 

pompeo updates part 3 (amedio's great grandparents)

Last year I wrote a post on Amedio's great grandparents Domenico Pompeo and Concetta Caldarelli.  This post was mostly about the immigration of their children.  Amedio's grandfather, Croce, actually remained in Italy; but his siblings (Amedio's great aunts and uncles) were the first generation of Pompeo's from Torre de Passeri to arrive in the US.  I wanted now to write about Amedio's other set of great grandparents on his paternal line, Domenico Antonio Cappola and Donata Gaetana di Bartolomeo, taken mostly from the Pompeo Family History book I made on ancestry.com. 

Domenico and Donata had at least seven children, 5 girls and 2 boys.  Amedio's grandmother Elisabetta was their third daughter (Croce's wife).  Unlike Croce's siblings, none of Domenico and Donata's children left Italy; the death records for most of the children show they remained in Torre de Passeri, Italy (Rosario probably died after 1928, when the online records end for Torre de Passeri).   They all married, and probably left many distant cousins of Amedio in their hometown of Torre de Passeri.   The chart below shows the birth and death dates of Amedio's great grandparents and their children, who are Amedio's great aunts and uncles.  The children of these great aunts and uncles would be Amedio's father's (Antonio) cousins, or Amedio's first cousins once removed.  These cousins are listed in my family tree, but I did not include them in this post. 


Domenico Antonio Cappola and Donata Gaetana di Bartolomeo family chart 


Amedio's great grandfather, Domenico Cappola, died in 1881 at the age of 71, 18 years before his wife Donata died in 1899 at the age of 84.  Two of Domenico and Donata's children died before their mother did.  Elisabetta, Amedio's grandmother, died at the age of 48, 5 years before her mother Donata died.  Domenico and Donata's youngest son, Nunzio, died at the age of 35, in 1892, 7 years before his mother died.  Perhaps having their mother Donata alive well into their adulthood made it more difficult for the children to leave Italy, with the children not wanting to leave their elderly widowed mother alone.

pompeo updates part 2 (amedio's cousins)

Amedio Pompeo's other set of grandparents, Ruggiero Gagliardi and Lucia di Lorenzo, also did not leave Italy.  Ruggiero and Donata Lucia had 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls.  At least four of their children emigrated from Italy, settling in Quincy, MA.  Two sons, both named Gaetano, died in Torre de Passeri when they were only 1 and 2 years old.

Amedio Pompeo's Grandparent's family chart (Ruggiero Gagliardi and Donata Lucia di Lorenzo)

One of Ruggiero and Donata Lucia's son, Carlantonio, remained in Italy, marrying and having a family.  This family is Amedio's Uncle Carlantonio and Aunt Ersilia, and their children would be Amedio's cousins, listed below.

Amedio Pompeo's Uncle's family chart (Carlantonio Gagliardi and Ersilia D'Nario)

Amedio probably never met these relatives, except for possibly his cousin Licinio who traveled to America in 1922.  Licinio's passenger record states his destination was to his Uncle Cristofaro's in Quincy, MA.  Amedio was 5 years old when his cousin came to America.  Licinio also stated on his passenger record that he intended to stay in the US permanently, but he returned to Italy at some point.  His death is recorded in Torre de Passeri in 1927; he was only 20 years old. Unfortunately; most of Carlantonio's children died before they were adults.  The only death record I did not find was Antoinetta's.  I may have also missed some children in the records as it seems this family traveled throughout Italy a bit, with two of their children born in different communes, Gattico and Taggliacozzo.  Gattico is actually very far away, in the northern part of Italy, as you can see from the map below.  I am not sure why the family would have been in this part of Italy when their second child was born.  Carlantonio was a cobbler according to his children's birth records, which does not seem like a traveling profession.

Carlantonio was not the only child of Ruggiero and Donata Lucia's that may have stayed in Italy, Marianna also seems to have spent most of her years in Italy, although she did travel to Boston in 1903 with her husband Venturo Cicchetti.  They are back in Italy by the time Marianna's mother Donata Lucia dies in 1914, as Venturo was one of the witnesses who reported her death.  Marianna and Venturo do not seem to have children, leaving Amedio without cousins in Italy from this aunt.

Two of Ruggiero and Donata Lucia Gagliardi's children, including Armedio's mother, left Italy before their parents died; Cristofaro in 1901, and Angelina in 1911.  The last two children to leave Italy were Secondina in 1914 and Geocinda in 1916, soon after their mother Donata Lucia died. Their father Ruggiero was still living when they left for America.

Amedio had many cousins from the Gagliardi side living near him in Quincy, MA, with the last names of Gizzarelli and Pompeo from these Aunts and Uncles.  His Aunt Geocinta had one child I could find from the census, Giovanni (John) Lawrence Gizzarelli, born in Torre de Passeri.   His Aunt Secondina had many children (surname Pompeo), Evalina, Louis, James, Jenny, Camilla, Eunice, Dominic, Adelina, Rodolph, and John, all born in Quincy, MA, all Amedio's cousins. 

Summary:

Possible cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Italy

1. Marianna Gagliardi and Venturo Cicchetti's children - none
2. Gaetano Gagliardi - none
3. Gaetano Gagliradi - none
4. Carlantonio Gagliardi and Ersilia's children - Americo, Antoinetta, Alba, Liana, Licinio, Luigi.  Most of these children, except maybe Antonietta, died as children or young adults.

Cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Quincy, MA

1. Cristofaro Gagliardi and Adelina Pompeo's children - none
2. Giacinta Gagliardi and Dominic Gizzarelli's children - Giovanni Lorenzo (John Lawrence)
3. Secondina Gagliardi and Dominic Pompeo's children - Evalina, Louis, James, Jenny, Camilla, Eunice, Dominic, Adelina, Rodolph, and John

pompeo updates part 1 (amedio's cousins)

I did some additional research while I was creating my Pompeo Family Tree book on ancestry.com, and wanted to document it on my blog as well as in the book.  The book begins with my grandfather, Amedio Pompeo and continues to the later generations.  I will start this post with Amedio's grandparents, my 2nd great grandparents, Croce and Elisabetta Pompeo.

Croce Pompeo and Elisabetta Cappola family chart

Amedio's grandparents, Croce and Elisabetta Pompeo, remained in Italy their entire lives and had 5 children; 3 girls and 2 boys, all born in Torre de Passeri.   The youngest daughter, Concetta, died at the age of 10, a week before her mother Elisabetta died.  Since their deaths were so close, it seems likely they had a similar illness that may have caused their deaths; but the Italian records do not have cause of death listed.  Antonio, Amedio's father, was only 12 years old when his mother died. 

After Amedio's grandmother Elisabetta died, his grandfather, Croce, stayed in Italy, remarried twice, and moved to a neighboring town in Italy, San Valentino.  Not all of Elisabetta and Croce's children remained in Italy though.  About 10 years after Elisabetta died, all the children, except Amelia, started to leave Italy for America; Adelina in 1903, Antonio in 1905, and Giuseppe in 1906.  Adelina married Cristofaro Gagliardi in 1900 in Torre de Passeri.  It does not seem that Amedio's Aunt Adelina and Uncle Cristofaro had any children, as the 1910 and 1920 censuses do not list any living in their household.   Amedio's Uncle Guiseppe (Joseph) and Aunt Cirettina (Cristina); however, had at least 9 children, all born in Quincy, MA; providing Amedio with many cousins.  Their names according to the various censuses were Crosi, Elizabeth, Angelina, Americo, Albina, Adele, Olga, Gladys, and Croce.  It seems a bit strange that they would have two children named Crosi and Croce, but that are the names on the censuses.   

The only child of Croce and Elisabetta that remained in Italy, Amelia, married Fiore Luigi Ferrara in Torre de Passeri in 1905; 10 months after her brother Antonio left for America.  Amelia and Fiore had at least three children in Torre de Passeri; the last one was born in 1909 (the birth records online only go up to 1910, so there may have been more).  Amelia's husband Fiore seems to have traveled back and forth from Italy to the US, with a passenger record in 1902, then back to Italy with the birth of his children, then back to the US with a WWI draft card in Quincy, MA in 1917.  This draft card lists a Marietta as his closet relative living in Torre de Passeri, I am not sure why it does not list Amelia.  Perhaps she died and he remarried, or maybe it is just a mistake.  I did not find a death record for Amelia in Torre de Passeri, or a passenger record for her.  Their children, Amedio's cousins, do not seem to have come to the US either.  Perhaps this Ferrara family's line still remain in Italy.  The following chart is for Fiore Luigi Ferrara and Amelia Pompeo's family.

Fiore Luigi Ferrara and Amelia Pompeo family chart

Summary:

Possible cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Italy

1. Amelis and Fiore Luigi Ferrara's children - Antonia, Alfredo and Croce - could be more
2. Concetta Pompeo - no children, died at age 10

Cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Quincy, MA

1. Adelina Pompeo and Cristofaro Gagliardi's children - none
2. Guiseppe (Joseph) Pompeo and Cristina's children - Crosi, Elizabeth, Angelina, Americo, Albina, Adele, Olga, Gladys, and Croce

pompeo emigration

When I was searching for information on Antonio Pompeo on ancestry.com, I noticed that it seemed an earlier generation of Pompeos was also present in Massachusetts.  I wanted to make note of how many aunts and uncles and cousins of Antonio emigrated and when they left Italy.  I started by looking at Antonio's father, Croce's, family.  Domenico and Concetta were the heads of this family, which consisted of four sons and one daughter, as seen in the chart below.

Family View Sheet for Domenico Pompeo and Concetta Caldarelli

Croce:
Antonio's father, Croce, was the oldest.  I do not believe he ever left Italy, as he remarries in 1895 and is noted as living in San Valentino, Italy in 1905, at the age of 54.  I did not see any evidence of him in the US, no passenger record, no census record, and nothing in the Massachusetts directories. However; at least three out of five of his children settled in Quincy, MA, including my great grandfather, Antonio Pompeo, and his sister Adelina and his brother Guiseppe (Joseph).  One sister, Concetta, died at the age of 10 in Italy, the other, Amelia, seems to have remained in Italy.  (see previous post) (UPDATE : Croce remarries a third time and died in San Valentino, Italy on June 5, 1917.)

Giovanna:
Domenico and Concetta's next child was Antonio's Aunt Giovanna Pompeo.  Giovanna married Giovanni Antonio di Giulio in 1875 in Torre de Passeri, Italy.  I have found at least 7 children for this couple, the last one born in 1892.  Although I did not find a death record for Giovanna Pompeo in the Italian records, I also did not find a passenger record for either Giovanna or her husband leaving Italy.  (UPDATE : Giovanna died Aug 20, 1911 in Torre de Passeri) Out of their seven children, I have found hints of some of them in the US.

1. Vincenzo Nicola Carmine di Giulio - died in Torre de Passeri, Italy in 1882 at the age of 3
2. Fiorinto di Giulio - married to Maria Domenico Catore in Torre de Passeri, Italy in 1908, passenger record to Quincy, MA in 1909 - going to see brother Carmine, and states wife is Angiolina (the passenger above Fiorindo states father is Giovanni - maybe this was meant for Fiorindo, everything else matches).  Have not found any records in the US for Fiorinto.
3. Angela di Giulio - died in Torre de Passeri, Italy in 1901 at the age of 18
4. Antonio di Giulio - have not found a marriage record or death record in Italy.  Have not found any records in US.
5. Antonina di Giulio - married Giovanni Tarquino in Torre de Passeri, Italy in 1909.  Died in Torre de Passeri, Italy in 1965.
6. Carmine Antonio di Giulio - crossed the Canadian Border to the US in 1915 and in 1919 (brother Fiorindo passenger record in 1908 states he is going to see Carmine, so looks like Carmine has gone back and forth) I have not found Carmine and wife in any MA directories or censuses. 
7. Nicola di Guilio - WW2 draft card - lived in Quincy in 1942, and died in Quincy, MA in February 1975.  I was able to find Nicola and his wife Mary in the Quincy directories, but not in any of the US censuses.  I also have not been able to find Nicola's passenger record.  (see note 1) 

Giovanna Pompeo di Giulio's youngest son, Nicola, seems to be the only child that has a distinct presence in Massachusetts, settling in Quincy, just like his cousin Antonio Pompeo.  Some other cousins definitely traveled back and forth from Italy, but it is not clear where their families settled.  There is at least one di Giulio cousin that remained in Torre de Passeri, Italy, Antonina di Giulio Tarquino.  I am not able to search the records to see if she had children since she was married in 1909 and the birth records end online in 1910.

Raffaele:
Antonio's Uncle Raffaele arrived in New York in March of 1901.  He was traveling with other men from Torre de Passeri, including Cristoforo Gagliardi and Bernadino di Lorenzo, age 41.  Raffaele's wife, Giovanna Antonia, arrives over a year later in 1902 with their four children.  They have three more children once they settle in Quincy, MA.  Raffaele's family seems to be the first of my ancestors to have settled in Quincy.  Raffaele and Giovanna have a total of 12 children, of which only six lived into adulthood.  At least four of these children, Alexander, John, Loretta, and Henry remained in MA.  Their sister Julia seems to have moved to FL, and I have not found too much information on another sister, Marie Concetta. (UPDATE : in contact with ancestry user JoanT92, a distant cousin.  Maria Concetta married Nicolo Di Antonio, and she died in Quincy in 1973.)

Felicantonio:
Antonio's uncle, Feliceantonio, marries Carmela Montopoli in 1884 in Torre de Passeri, Italy.  He does seem to have traveled to the US in 1893 with nine other men from Torre de Passeri.   (Some of the surnames of his companions are familiar to me - di Lorenzo, Montopoli, Laureti, Tarquino).  Even though Felicantonio arrives in the US before his brother Raffaele, it does not seem that he remains in the US as I found records of his children's birth in Torre de Passeri in 1894, 1898 and 1901.  I have not found any other records for Felicantonio in the US; and I also have not found his death record in Italy.  His children, Antonio's cousins, Pasquale and Dominic, were the only two children of Felicantonio and Carmela that settled in the US; in Quincy also. (UPDATE: Felicantonio died in Torre de Passeri on Oct 12, 1916.)

Luigi:
Antonio's youngest uncle, Luigi, also married in Torre de Passeri (1889), and later traveled to the US in 1893 (4 other men from Torre de Passeri), 1903, and 1906.  Just like his brother, Felicantonio, I believe the records show Luigi did not settle in America; but returned to Italy.  He married a second time in Torre de Passeri in 1908 after his first wife died in 1905.  I only found two children in the Italian records for Luigi, Sabatino and Francesco, but both died as babies.  I did not find any other records for Luigi in the US, and I did not find Luigi's death record in Italy.

I did all this research into the Pompeo cousins because I wanted to see which generation first left Italy, and how many cousins my great grandfather, Antonio Pompeo, may have had in Quincy, MA or the surrounding area.  It seems that the only person from the generation before Antonio that actually settled in Quincy, MA was Antonio's uncle, Raffaele Pompeo, in 1901.  A couple of other uncles did travel to America as early as 1893, but they did not stay, eventually returning to Torre de Passeri, Italy.  Although not all of Antonio's father's siblings settled in the US, many of their children did.  Antonio had the following cousins in Massachusetts: Giovanna's son, Nicola di Giulio; Raffaele's children Alexander Pompeo, John Pompeo, Loretta Pompeo, and Henry Pompeo, (their sibling Julia moved to FL and not sure about Maria Concetta); and finally Felicantonio's sons, Pasqual and Dominic Pompeo.  Most of these cousins had families of their own, expanding the Pompeo name in Massachusetts.

notes:

1. There is another Nicolas DiGiulio that lives in MA born same year who marries a Mary.  He lives in Haverhill, MA.  Looks like this Nicholas also has a brother Antonio and maybe Giovanni.  They are from a different part of Italy, and this Nicholas has a separate WW2 draft card.  A Nicola DiGiulio went to US in 1905 - Nicola at the age of 13 - states going to see his brother Antonio in Boston, MA, not sure which Nicola this is (going to 5 N. Square, which is a recurring address my ancestors have given on passenger records).  Does not state which town in Italy, and no contact in Italy is listed.  If this is my Nicola, it would mean Antonio is also in MA by 1905 - is this antonio or carmine antonio?  I found an Antonio DiGuilio who travelled in 1904 to NY - going to Albion PA to see his brother Giovanni - this could be the other family.

antonio pompeo

Antonio Pompeo was my great grandfather, born in Torre de Passeri, Italy.  I just finished writing a post about his wife Angelina Gagliardi, and now it is time to focus on Antonio and his family to see how far the records will bring me back in the Pompeo line.  Below is the result after spending some days searching through the records.

Pedigree Chart for Antonio Pompeo

I was able to find the names of three sets of my 5th great grandparents from Antonio Pompeo's line.  I also found that Antonio's mother, Elisabetta Cappola, died in 1894, when Antonio was only 12 years old.  Antonio's father does remarry, a year later in July of 1895, to Rosa Martino, who was only 22 years old.  I am not sure if they had children, as I think they may have moved out of Torre de Passeri.  I was not able to find a death record for Croce Pompeo, but I know he was still living at the time of one of his daughter's marriage in 1905.  This marriage record states Croce was living in San Valentino, Italy.  This commune's records are not available online on FamilySearch. (see note 1)

As with Angelina, I was also curious to see if I could find more siblings of Antonio's that may have stayed in Italy.  Searching through the birth, death and marriage records for Torre de Passeri, I found the following siblings of Antonio, all children of Croce Pompeo and Elisabetta Cappola.

Family View Chart for Croce Pompeo and Elisabetta Cappola

Before searching through these records, I knew that Antonio had an older sister Adelina, who married Cristoforo Gagliardi (the brother of Antonio Pompeo's wife Angelina).  They also settled in Quincy, MA.  I also knew that Antonio's younger brother Guisseppe, or Joseph, settled in Quincy.

I did find two new sisters, an older sister Amelia, and a younger sister, Concetta.  Concetta died at the age of 10, a week before her mother Elisabetta died.  Since their deaths were so close, I would guess they had a similar illness.  I am sure it is written in their death records, but I am not fluent in Italian to decipher their cause of death.

Antonio's older sister, Amelia, married Fiore Lugi Ferrara in Italy in 1905; 10 months after her brother Antonio left for America.  Amelia and Fiore had at least three children in Italy; the last one I found was born in 1909 (the records online only go up to 1910).  I have not found a passenger record for either Fiore or Amelia, but I was able to find a WWI draft card for Fiore, dated 1918, which states he was living in Quincy, MA.  It does not seem that Amelia came to the US though, as the closest living relative listed on Fiore's draft card is a Mrs. Marietta Ferrara; living in Italy.  I am guessing that Amelia may have died sometime soon after 1910 in Italy and Fiore remarried Marietta.  It is possible that Amelia came to the US with Fiore, but I have not found any records indicating this.

As with Angelina's family, it seems most of Antonio's generation left Italy in the early 1900's.  This must have been such a difficult but necessary voyage to America, and it is nice to think that eventually my family settled together; even if they did not emigrate at the same time.  It also seems likely that Antonio left some ancestors behind in Italy, which makes it likely that I have distant cousins still in the area of Torre de Passeri.

Notes:

1. The commune of San Valentino was in the province of Chieti until the province of Pescara was formed in 1927. Since the Torre de Passeri records are under Pescara, and it was in the province of Teramo until 1927 also, I would also assume San Valentino records would also be filed under Pescara. There is no Chieti Province to check under anyway. Familysearch does have the San Valentino records on microfilm, but only up to 1865.

angelina gagliardi pompeo (part 2 of 2)

Family

As I mentioned in my last post, the Italian records that the area of my great grandparents are from, Torre de Passeri, are now available online through familysearch.  Since I have more information on Angelina Gagliardi's family, it is time to look for her family's vital records.  Below is the information I was able to obtain through these records.  

pedigree chart for angelina gagliardi pompeo

I was curious to find out if Angelina left Italy (1911) while her parents were still living.  I know her parents died after 1906, as they are listed in their daughter Giacinda's marriage record as living at this time.  I looked through the death records up until 1910 for Torre de Passeri, and did not find a death for either Angelina's father, Ruggiero Gagliardi, or her mother, Donata Lucia di Lorenzo; so I do not know at this point if Angelina's parents saw her off to America.

I also thought it would be interesting to see if any of Angelina's siblings remained in Italy.  In my last post on Angelina, I wrote a little about some of her siblings, and how they emigrated to America and were all living close to each other in Quincy, MA.  This includes her brother Cristoforo, and her sisters, Secondina and Giacinta.  From the Torre de Passeri records, I found four other siblings; one sister and three brothers.  Below are Ruggiero and Donata Lucia's children.

family group sheet for Ruggerio Gagialrdi and Donata Lucia di Lorenzo

I found from the records that two of Angelina's brothers, both named Gaetano, died as children when Angelina was still living in Italy.  That leaves two more siblings unaccounted for in their later lives.  These two siblings are her oldest sister, Marianna and a brother, Carlantonio.    The other three siblings settled in Massachusetts with Angelina.  I did some further research to see if I could find out if Angelina left any family behind in Italy.

Marianna, the eldest child, married in Torre de Passeri in 1893, to Venturo Cicchetti.  I looked through the birth records for Torre de Passeri from the years 1893-1903 and did not find any children born to this couple.  They may have not been living in Torre de Passeri though, as their marriage record states that Marianna's husband, Venturo, is from the commune of Sulmona.  The Sulmona records are not available online at this time, so I cannot look in these records.  I did a search on ancestry.com passenger databases and found that the couple did leave Italy in 1903 to Boston, MA.  They were traveling with one of her brother, Cristoforo's, wife, Adelina Pompeo.  The passenger record states that Marianna and Venturo were living in Sulmona, Italy before leaving.  They are not traveling with any children though, which leads me to believe if they had any, they died at a young age.  The record also states their destination is to see their brother-in-law, Giovanni Ferrara, at the same address as their traveling companion's, Adelina, husband and Marianna's brother, Cristoforo Gagliardi.  Unfortunately; that is the last bit of information I have found for Marianna and Venturo Cicchetti.  I was unable to locate them in any Quincy directories, MA censuses, or death index for MA.  They could have moved out of state or returned to Italy?

Carlantonio Gagliardi, Angelina's other sibling that may have stayed in Italy, was also a little difficult to trace.  I was able to find some of his children's birth records, beginning in 1901.  I suspect these are his children, as the age of Carlantonio matches, and also some of the witnesses listed are his father Ruggiero Gagliardi, and his brother-in-law, Venturo Cicchetti.  The complication arises when some of his children are listed in the supplements of the Torre de Passeri registers, as they were born in other parts of Italy.  One commune listed is at the northernmost part of Italy (Gattico, Novara), far from Torre de Passeri.  So it seems this family traveled back and forth from Torre de Passeri throughout their years.  Also, I have been unable to find the marriage record of Carlantonio, but his wife is listed on the children's birth records as Ersilia D'Nario.  They must have married outside of Torre de Passeri.  The couple had five children that I could find.  They had two sons, and three daughters; although one son and one daughter died as young children.  The records online end in 1910; so they may have had more children that I have not found.  Since they also moved around a bit, they could also have had children in other communes that I have not found.  I have been unable to find any passenger records that show Carlantonio and Ersilia traveling to America.  I did; however, find a passenger record for one of their children, Licinio at age 16, in 1922.  The record states that his father, Carlo, is living in Torre de Passeri.  It seems likely that Carlantonio and his wife stayed in Italy for the remainder of their lives. (I could not find any other information on Licinio Gagliardi in the US).

It seems that it must have been a difficult time to stay in Italy in the early 1900's.  Most of Angelina's generation emigrated to America and settled in Quincy, MA.  Even a nephew of hers left Italy at the age of 16, Licinio, heading to Quincy, MA.  It is also likely though that at least one of Angelina's brothers, Carlantonio, remained in Italy with most of his children.  Perhaps I have cousins from this line still in Torre de Passeri.  I would have to find out the names of Carlantonio's daughters' husbands to go further with this line and find living cousins.

angelina gagliardi pompeo (part 1 of 2)

I have written a bit about my maternal Italian ancestors, including my great grandparents Arnaldo DeNicola and Louisa Terragnoli; and their mothers, my second great grandmothers, Eugenia Farnetti and Francesca Lucente.  I have hardly any information to write about my second great grandfathers, Adolph DeNicola and Guisseppe Terragnoli, as they both seemed to have died fairly young in Italy.

Another set of my paternal great grandparents were also from Italy, Antonio Pompeo and Angelina Gagliardi.  I have written some posts about them, but the last one was in 2010.  I was able to find records from their area of Italy (Torre de Passeri) online, and was able to take their lines back a couple of more generations; so I believe they are in need of a new post with updated information.  I will focus first on Angelina Gagliardi.

The last time I wrote about Angelina I only had two of her records; her marriage record and her passenger record from Italy to Boston, MA.  From these records I was able to get an estimated birth year of 1886 and her parents names, Ruggiero Gagliardi and Lucia Di Lorenzo.  Now that I have access to the Italian records from familysearch for Torre de Passeri, her birth record should be easy to find with this information.

The passenger record also gave me some additional familial information for Angelina; such as her brother's name, Cristoforo Gagliard, who was already living in Massachusetts. She was also traveling with Pasquale Pompeo, son of Felice Pompeo and brother to Dominic in US, age 23 in 1911, and Cleonice Gagliardi, daughter of Guisseppe Gagliardi and sister to Palestino in US, age 22 in 1911.  Since I have the Italian records, I will also search to see how Angelina, or her husband Antonio Pompeo, relates to her traveling companions.

First I searched for Angelina's birth record from the familysearch database, "Italia, Pescara, Pescara, Stato Civile (Tribunale), 1865-1910"; under the province of Pescara, and the comune of Torre de' Passeri.  (Torre de Passeri was actually in the province of Teramo until Pescara was formed in 1927; but it is still listed under Pescara in the familysearch database.)  I did find what I believe to be her birth record; Angela Gagliardi, born April 28, 1885 in Torre de Passeri, Italy to the parents of Ruggiero Gagliardi and Donata Di Lorenzo.  A couple of items are a little different from her marriage record, such as Angelina's name as Angela and her mother's name as Donata, not Lucia.  I think this is a pretty good match though, with her father's name the same, and estimated birth year very close.  Torre de Passeri does not have a large population, so it seems very likely to me this is Angelina.  I also searched for her brother, Cristoforo's, birth record, hoping it would also state his mother was Donata Di Lorenzo.  Unfortunately, the record lists Lucia Di Lorenzo as his mother, the same as Angelina's marriage record, but different from her birth record.  I am thinking that maybe their mother's name is Donata Lucia, and perhaps she goes by one or the other.  Generally, I have seen multiple names listed on birth records for Italian children, and have found they usually only use one name in their adult records.  I still wanted to provide more evidence that Lucia is Donata; so I searched for Donata Lucia's birth or marriage record in the Italian database.  Her marriage record to Ruggiero Gagliardi again only states Lucia, not Donata.  (see update under note 1) I was unable to find Donata Lucia's birth record as she was born around 1850 in the province of San Valentino in the province of Chiete.  These records are not available online at this time.  (see note 2)

Now onto looking in the Italian records for more information about who Angelina was travelling to Boston, MA with.  The birth record of Pasquale Pompeo shows that his parents are Felice Pompeo and Carmela Montopoli.  Felice's birth record shows he has the same parents as Antonio Pompeo's father, Croce.  So Antonio, Angelina's soon to be husband, is first cousins with Pasquale Pompeo, who Angelina travels to Boston with.  Angelina's other companion on her trip to Boston from Italy is Cleonice Gagliardi, who lists her father as Guisseppe Gagliardi and her brother in the US as Palestino Gagliardi.  According to the passenger records, Cleonice would have been born around 1889.  I have not found any connection between these two Gagliardi families after looking at their family records.  I am sure they were probably distant cousins, with the same last name living in the same small comune in Italy.  (see note 3)

Since my last post in 2010 on Angelina and Antonio, I also did not have Angelina's date of death, or where she was buried.  I have since found these.  Angelina is listed in ancestry.com's database, Massachusetts, Death Index, with a death year of 1956.  With this year, I emailed the librarian at the Quincy Public library to do an obituary look up for me.  As always, they got right back to me and sent me a pdf of Angelina's obituary which was published in the Patriot Ledger on July 6, 1956.  Angelina died July 5, 1956 "at a Boston hospital, from a long illness." The obituary lists many family members, including three sons, a daughter, and her two living sisters.

Patriot Ledger, July 6 1956

I knew that Angelina and her husband Antonio Pompeo were buried at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy, so I decided to go find their gravestone.  I was hoping it would have Angelina's birth date on the stone so I could match it with her birth record and have more evidence to support her mother's name was Donata Lucia.  Indeed her stone did have her birth date on it, April 29, 1885.  One day off from the birth record of April 28, 1885; close enough for me!  It also seems that most of the records I found in the US have her name as Angelina, even though her birth record states Angela as her name.  I am certain she went by the name Angelina, not Angela.

headstone of Antonio Pompeo and Angelina Gagliardi Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, MA

Notes:

1. While I was searching for more birth records for Ruggiero and Donata Gagliardi, I found another record that was listed in the supplements of the 1900 birth register for Torre de Passeri.  Since the record is in Italian, I am not sure what it states, but it seems to be discussing the name of Donata or Lucia di Lorenzo.  It lists the names of 4 of her children, carlantonio, giacinta, angela, and secondina.  This record definitely ties Angelina to her siblings and the same mother, Donata Lucia di Lorenzo.

2. The comune of San Valentino was in the province of Chieti until the province of Pescara was formed in 1927.  Since the Torre de Passeri records are under Pescara, and it was in the province of Teramo until 1927 also, I would also assume San Valentino records would also be filed under Pescara. There is no Chieti Province to check under anyway. Familysearch does have the San Valentino records on microfilm.

3. Cleonice Gagliardi's parents are Guisseppe Gagliardi and Giulia Tobia, obtained from her brother Palestino's birth record.  Guisseppe and Giulia's marriage record states Guisseppe's parents are Giovanni Gagliardi and Anna Fedele di Bartolomeo - not the same as Angelina's grandparents, who are Domenico Gagliardi and Chiarra de Novellis.  So Angelina and Cleonice are not first cousins as Ruggiero and Guisseppe are not brothers.  If Giovanni's parents are Lorenzo Gagliardi and Benedetta d'Innacenzo then they would be second cousins, I believe.  I would have to find the death record for Giovanni, but it does not seem to be in these records that are available up until 1902.  I can search online at family history center for later dates.

augusta ophelia tessier and achilles narcisse labrecque

Augusta Tessier and Achilles LaBrecque were married on May 9, 1881 at the Notre Dame de Québec.
 

 church register entry for marraige of Achilles LaBrecque and Augusta Tessier from Notre Dame de Quebec

In Québec, a notary record is also created when a couple is married. I have written a little bit about finding the notary for their marriage in another post, here.  Notary Joseph-Alphonse-Elzéar Chaperon notarized their marriage. His records can be found at the Library and Archives Canada microfilm CN301, S299. These documents are also available online, but they are in French and it may take me a while to translate them. It seems there is an inventory of some sort listed, maybe Augusta's dowry. The notary document is 6 pages. Looking at the first couple of paragraphs, the only additional information I have discovered was about Augusta's father, Honoré. I believe his profession is stated as "gardien de la Prison Commune de District de Québec". When I enter this phrase in an online translation site, Babylon, it is translated as "common prison warder of the district of Québec". This is similar to the 1881 census which states Honoré is a "gardien".

Augusta and Achilles left Québec, Canada for Boston, Massachusetts 6 years after they married, in 1887 (according to the 1900 US Federal Census). At this time, they had three young children, including my great grandfather, Alfred, who was only months old. According to the 1900 census, this couple had a total of 10 children; with 6 still living. I was only able to find records for 8 of their children; Corrine, Arthur, Alfred, George, Eugene, Bertha, Odelle, and Augusta (George and Bertha died before 1900).

1900 Census Boston, MA Achilles and Augusta Labrecque family

Augusta and Achilles moved at least 8 times between 1900 and 1930. They lived in Boston in 1900 and in Cambridge in 1910. In 1910, they are also living in Quincy, MA (south of Boston); they were actually enumerate twice this year, maybe they moved during the census dates. By 1920 until at least 1930, Augusta and Achilles are living in Watertown, MA; west of Boston. (note 1)

Map of Augusta and Achilles Labrecque from 1900-1930

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Achilles and Augusta had three living sons during the time of World War I. I have found records for two of their sons, Eugene and Alfred, that showed they fought in World War I.  Their son Alfred, my great grandfather, actually went to Canada to enlist.  I have read some articles which state soldiers from the US did this because Canada entered the war before the US and they wanted to enlist sooner. Their other son, Eugene, fought with the Massachusetts's 101st Engineer Regiment, according to the database, U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963 on ancestry.com. At some point after the war, Eugene travelled back to Canada with his wife and child. They eventually came back to US and settled in CT, but this was after Achilles and Augusta had died. Even though Eugene died in CT, he was buried in Quincy, at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, the same cemetery as his parents.

Achilles and Augusta's oldest daughter, Corrine may have also travelled out of Massachusetts. She and her son are found on a passenger record to France; but they eventually settled in Boston. I have not found the marriage record or her son's birth record to confirm this is the correct Corrine; but she is listed in the 1930 census above one of her siblings in Watertown, MA with her married name and son.

Achilles and Augusta's other children mostly remained in Watertown or Quincy as they grew older. Arthur and Alfred stayed in Quincy. Augusta and Achille's daughter Odelle never married and stayed in Watertown. Another daughter, Augusta, also never married. She was living in Watertown while her parents were alive, but eventually moved to Cambridge, MA.

Achilles and Augusta are buried with two of their daughters at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery. Augusta died in 1931, Achilles six years later in 1937. Five out of their eight children survived them (although the 1900 census states they had 10 children, so maybe five out of ten children). They also had at least 10 grandchildren survive them, one grandchild died as an infant.

Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, MA - Augusta and Achilles LaBrecque

notes:
1. Augusta's obituary (discussed in a post here) states that she would spend summers in Watertown. Maybe that is why they were enumerated twice in 1910, they may have had two residences.

to do:
1. find stone at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, for their son Eugene Labrecque.

james fitchie ferguson and grace stewart cox

My great great grandparents, James Fitchie Ferguson and Grace Stewart Cox, were married on May 2, 1895 in Dundee, Scotland. The Statutory Registers of Marriages on scotlandspeople has an address of their marriage at Park Place, Clepington Road, Dundee by Robert Sharp Warren, minister of Saint David's. I searched for a St. David's in Dundee, and found the following possible church that their minister was from; although it is not located on Clepington Road.  The current name of the church is St. David's High Kirk, located in the center of Dundee, at the hill of Dundee Law.  It is part of the Church of Scotland, which complies with their marriage register.  I also searched on google for a minister of Robert Warren, but did not find additional information on him. I am not sure if this is the Church they attended, but it does seem this would be the church referred to in the register, even if they were not actually married in the building.

At the time of their marriage, Grace and James were both living at different addresses on Perth Road in Dundee. Grace grew up at the house she was living in, while James came to Dundee from Kettins sometime between 1881 and 1895 (in the county of Forfar at the time, now in county of Angus). Grace and James were married only a month before they had their first child, my great grandmother, Ann Hutchison Ferguson. Perhaps they were not married in the church because of this early pregnancy.



Before Marriage : Grace's residence at 40 Perth Road (A) and James' at 199 Perth Road (B)


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Very soon after they married, Grace and James moved to Glasgow, Scotland, about 75 miles from Dundee. They had all three of their children in Glasgow, between the years of 1895 - 1901. All three children were born in the same house at 6 Walker Street in Glasgow. I would assume this is the house Grace and James lived in at the time. I was able to find online an 1894 map of Glasgow, from the National Library of Scotland's map collection.  I aslo looked at the street view from Google maps and see that the street has changed a bit, with the addition of another street, Walker Ct.  I am guessing the house (or flat/apartment) they lived in probably does not exist anymore. 

1894 Map of Walker Street, Glasgow, Scotland : residence of James and Grace Ferguson 1895-1901

From Screen Captures

Current Google Map of Walker Street, Glasgow, Scotland

View James Ferguson Timeline 1867-1930 in a larger map

At some point in 1901, after the birth of their third child (James), Grace moved to Kettins with her three children while James stayed in Glasgow. Kettins was closer to the Dundee area where Grace had spent her childhood, a good 70 or so miles away from Glasgow, where James stayed. The 1901 census has them enumerated in these separate cities/towns. Maybe Grace needed more space or more help, as she moved in with her mother in law and brother in law at Lintrose House in Kettins. It seems James' brother Peter was a gardner for this estate. I found some information about the Lintrose House and cottages at ScotlandsPlaces. There are also photographs of the house and the family that lived there at the Search Room of The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Histoical Monuments of Scotland. You can actually order these online from their website, or visit them in person to view the photos.  (note 1)

I am not sure how long Grace and James lived apart, but by 1911 they are together again in Glenfinart in Kilman, Scotland, county of Argyll.  This was a big move for James from the city of Glasgow to what looks to be a more rural part of Scotland, in Kilman. Glenfinart was a name of a house, but I am not sure if it was also considered an area of Kilman.  There is also some photographs and information about the Glenfinart house at ScotlandsPlaces.  James' occupation is listed as coachman and chauffer in many sources, perhaps he was a chauffer to the family at Glenfinart.  (note 2)

map of Glasgow (East) and Glenfinart, Kilman (West)

View James Ferguson Timeline 1867-1930 in a larger map

Not much time after James and Grace moved to Kilman, World War I began. The UK would pass the Military Service Act in 1916 requiring "single men 18 to 41 years old were liable to be called up for military service unless they were widowed with children or ministers of a religion", according to the article on wikipedia. In 1916, James was above the age limit for the draft at 49 years old. His son James was only 15 in 1916; by the end of the war in 1919 James would have been 18. He may have registered for the draft by the end, but I did not find him in the British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920, on ancestry.com. 

After the Great War, all three of James and Grace's children emigrated to America. First was their eldest daughter and my great grandmother, Ann, in 1920.  The story is that she was a nurse in WWI and that is how she met her husband, Alfred Labrecque. (I wrote a little about Alfred and his service here, but I still have not looked at all his service records I had ordered some time ago.)  I have searched various WWI databases from the UK, and I am unable to find records of Ann's service.  Her future husband, Alfred, enlisted from Canada, even though he was living in Massachusetts. After the war, Ann left Scotland for America, and stated Alfred as the friend she knew in the United States.  So she did at least meet Alfred during the war, while he was serving; but I still have no proof she was serving as a nurse.  I wonder if it is possible she was a nurse in a hospital that saw War patients, but was not actually enlisted.  I do believe the records for Alfred show he was injured at some point.  I will have to check into the records more closely.

A year after Ann came to America, James and Grace's second daughter, Margaret, also emigrated (both Ann and Margaret came in through Ellis Island).  Her passenger record also states she was a nurse, like her sister Ann.  I did not find much information on Margaret after 1932 when she is listed in the Weymouth, MA directory, so I am unsure if she married or where she died (my Dad believes she did not marry, and moved to NY).  Finally, James and Grace's youngest, James, emigrated to America in 1923. He also settled in Massachusetts like his oldest sister Ann. Grace and James probably felt the pressure to also emigrate when all of their children left Scotland. It was also probably a little easier to leave Scotland as both sets of parents had passed away by 1922. They followed their children to America, in 1923, the same year their son James emigrated. They settled in Weymouth, MA; the town I grew up in. James' occupation in the census is listed as chauffer, which is consistent with the occupations he had in Scotland as vanman and coachman. 

Since James and Grace and all their children emigrated, I was curious to see if any of their siblings also emigrated, or if they left some living cousins that have stayed in Scotland. I was not able to track all of James' siblings' down, but the ones I have found look to have stayed in Scotland and not emigrated. One of James' brother, Daniel, has a descendant in England that has contacted me for her mother-in-law, who is Daniel's daughter. She does remember visiting cousins in Scotland, so I am sure that this family has left some cousins still living in Scotland. Daniel had the most children of the siblings. Some of James' siblings, such as Jessie, Isabella, and perhaps Annie, look to never have married. Other siblings had either one or no children. I definitely could be missing some information as it is hard to track this time period online, as the last available census is 1911. Also the birth records are expensive to browse through on Scotlandspeople, having to pay credits for each one. (note 3)

Grace's family has been a little more difficult to trace with 11 siblings.  A couple of the younger sisters, Jessie and Susan, seem to have emigrated to the US.  I found some passenger records which seem to match these sisters.  An older sister may also have emigrated, Margaret Francis Cox Hanily.  I found a marriage record for her in Manhatten, NY in 1898 on familysearch.  She would have probably been the first to leave Scotland in Grace's family.  It would be great to find other cousins living in US, but I am not sure if any of these sisters had children. Grace's older sister, Betsy, seems to have had the most children that I have found; but she stayed in Scotland.  I was unable to find most of the death records for Grace's siblings, which would help me locate where they had spent at least the last part of their lives. 

I do not have an exact death date for Grace, although this should be easy enough to find.  I will have to visit the Registry of Vital Records in Dorchester, MA wich has an index to deaths in the state.  Thanks to the reference department at the Quincy Public Library again, I do have the death date for James.  According to his obituary from the Patriot Ledger, James died December 13, 1940.   

Both James and Grace are buried at Mt. Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy.  I am not sure why I did not clear the grass to read Grace's death date, but I do know that she was still living in 1941 when she is listed in the Weymouth, MA directory as a widow.

links :
There is an interesting Scottish Emigration website from the National Library of Scotland which has some stories related to emigration during this time period.

to do
1. browse through the census to see if other families were listed at Lintrose
2. order photos of Lintrose House and Glenfinart house online from their website, or visit them in person to view the photos
3. look through Alfred's Canadian service records - hospital mentioned where he could have met Ann?
4. find out more information on siblings of grace and james - contact cousin again to see if any photos, etc.
5. search Genes Reunited - they have the British Newspaper Archive - for search terms, Glenfinart and Lintrose to see what comes up. Maybe more information about families that lived there. Grace and James spent spent most of their life in count of Argyll - which do not have a newspaper represented, but may be able to find something. I did a brief search and found some info on cox family possibly as they lived in angus- saved images as screenshots to picasa. might have some info on james brother peter ferguson as he lived in angus county.
6. look into magazine - discover scotland - any info on dundee? or kettins?
7. find death date for Grace - have to visit statistics office in dorchester to find death date.

notes :

1. James may have also been in Lintrose house as a child, as his father Peter was also a gardner. The prior census for James' father do not list Lintrose, but Campmuir. Maybe the census was not as specific in the earlier years, I will have to browse through the census to see if other families were listed at Lintrose (which would imply James and father were not at Lintrose).  I did also find a connection between James' brother Peter and Lintrose - Peter married a Murray - and a Murray family owned this estate.  So perhaps this is why Peter was living here - not because his father had been there before. 

2. photo lists a murray under glenfinart - and a murray family is from lintrose - some documents on murray family of lintrose on national archives. or national register of archives but did not find a connection of any murrays at glenfinart.

3. James Siblings:

• Margaret, oldest sister, is difficult to track down after the 1871 census. I have found bits and pieces of her life, such as having a daughter in 1896 in Kettins. Her daughter's birth record states she was married in London in 1893, but I have not been able to find her marriage record. I was also unable to find her and her husband in the 1901 and 1911 Census. I did find that Margaret died in 1913 in Dundee, Scotland; which had listed her occupation also as a nurse, a maternity nurse. I found her daughter Janet last at Kettins in the 1911 census, perhaps Janet has left us some living cousins in Scotland. 
• Peter, oldest brother, looks to have stayed in Scotland, living at Lintrose as the gardner. He married a Margaret Murray. As I mentioned above, Murray is a name that I have found linked to Lintrose house. I will have to do some more research on Margaret and her family to see if there is a connection. Peter and Margaret were not married until 1920, Peter was 37. The latest Census I am able to search is 1911, so I did not look much further yet to see if they had any children and left some descendants in Scotland.
• Alexander, brother, marries in 1898, but does not have children by 1911 census - did not find death record in Scotland or any immigration records to US.
• Jessie, sister, did not marry or have children and stayed in Scotland.
• Daniel, brother, has left the most ancestors in the family. died in 1960 at blairgowrie, county of perth. had 5 children according to kstyrell's tree on ancestry.com. I have spoken a little with Daniel's youngest daughter, Elizabeth's, daughter in law; who states that the family moved to England, but remembers visiting family in Scotland.
• Elizabeth, sister, had one son by the 1911 census. It also looks like they stayed in Scotland, with Elizabeth's death in Kilmacolm in the county of Renfrew. Husband James Cunningham may have left a will as found in the index on ancestry.com.
• Annie, sister, did not find much information. Not sure if she married or when she died.
• Isabella, sister, looks to be single still by 1944 when she is a witness for her sister's death. Did not find more information on her either.

joseph labrecque and marie anna raimond

Joseph Labrecque and Marie Anna Raimond were married on April 29, 1851 on the Ile D'Orleans, Quebec, in the parish of St. Jean. They were my 3rd great grandparents, and the first generation of Labrecques in my direct line to move off the small island to the mainland area of Quebec. I was not able to locate the marriage contract from the Marriage Contract website of the National Archives Quebec.

Joseph and Marie Anna were both born and grew up on the Ile D'Orleans. Marie Anna Raimond's family may have moved to the island before she was born, but her father was born in St. Louis, Kamouraska, Quebec; not on the island. The Labrecques; however, had lived on the island since the 1600s.

Soon after Joseph and Marie-Anna were married, they moved off the island. Joseph was 22 years old and Marie Anna was just 19 years old. The 1851/1852 Census of Canada East has Joseph and Marie living in the sub district of St. Flavien, Lotbinière county, in the area that was then known as Canada East (Quebec). They were living in a one story house with another couple, Gabriel Valliere (age 45) and Calostique Metaye (age 27). Although this couple was older, I am guessing they knew at least Calostique fairly well, as she was also born on the Ile' D'Orleans. By 1852, parish records show Joseph and Marie Anna belonged to the parish of St. Croix, Quebec, where they had their first four children baptised between the years of 1852 and 1856. St. Flavien and St. Croix are only about 6 miles apart; both parishes must have been fairly rural as Joseph is listed as a "cultivateur", or farmer.

In October of 1856, there is one record of their son Joseph's death recorded in the parish of St. Roch, Quebec. It looks like they left the area of St. Croix in 1856, heading a couple of miles north, closer to the island they grew up on. Around 1857, they may have moved back to the parish of St. Jean on the island, as their 5th child, Joseph, was baptised in the parish there. They did not stay on the island long as their next child, Achilles, was baptised in the Beauport section of Quebec City in 1859, a year and a half later. Their next child, Moise, was christened in the parish of St. Roch in 1861; however, their last 6 children's baptism's were recorded again at the the parish of La Nativité de Notre Dame, Beauport, Quebec.

Beauport and St. Roch sections of Quebec


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The later census records I have found for this family support that they lived in the sub district of Beauport from 1861 to at least 1881. [1] I am not sure why their children were baptised in different parishes unless they moved back and forth between areas. Perhaps they were renting and moved to where they could afford. The area of Beauport and St. Roch are close though, so maybe they did not move and just baptised Moise at a different parish. Maybe that is where his godparents attended mass and they decided to have him baptised there. The record does however state, "de cette paroisse" (of this parish). Beauport and Saint Roch are both close to the Il D'Orleans, just on the west side of the St. Lawrence River. They may have moved to this area to be closer to the island where their parents lived. Even though the bridge to the island was not built at this time, perhaps they took a boat to the island sometimes to visit family.

Joseph's occupation also changed with this move by 1856 from farmer to "menusuir", or carpenter [2]. Maybe moving closer to the city of Quebec provided better working opportunities as a carpenter, or maybe he changed professions because they moved away from farming land. His employment did not seem to stay consistent though, as it changed frequently within the parish records of his children. The 1861 Census has Joseph as "journalier', day laborer. By 1871 his job is listed as "meunier", which is miller; apparently still working with wood. The records starting in 1873 have a new job listing, mecanicien. According to babylon.com, translates to mechanic, a bit different than a carpenter or miller. By the 1881 census, and up until the 1901 census, Joseph has an occupation of "charretier". I have found a couple of translations of this profession as wagoner, carter or teamster. The 1901 census states he was an employer, not an employee. The 1881 and the 1901 census also list education information. According to these censuses, Joseph was unable to read or write, I am guessing in either French or English. I did find this a little surprising, but I am not sure what education was available to him. Marie Anna; however, was able to read and write, and the 1901 census also states she could speak English. She must have been a great source of guidance to her husband with her knowledge.

While Joseph was out supporting his family financially, Marie Anna gave birth to at least 13 children. The last child was born in 1876, when Joseph was 47 and Marie Anna was 43. Since there were so many children I created a one generation descendant report from my Legacy software. I am not sure I am happy with the Google Sites format, although I have not had the chance to play with it much. I am usually a big fan of all things Google, so I will have to work on this. I am also not sure the descendant report itself is the best way to display all the information on their children - I think a more concise view may be better, listing only children's names and birth and death dates.

I have spent some time on ancestry.com trying to find records for Joseph and Marie Anna's children. Sadly, many of their children died at very young ages. Their first daughter died at age 11, their third child died at age 2, their fourth child died before the age of 5. Their 8th child died at age 1, their 10th child died before the age of 12. Their last three children died before their first birthdays, one at birth and was unnamed. The French Canadian parish records are a great resource for vital records in Quebec, but the death records do not list the cause of death. I am guessing that the cause of most children's death were some common childhood diseases. I could not imagine losing 8 children. How sad it must have been to experience all these losses. (the deaths occurred in the following years : 1856, before 1861, 1863, 1864, 1871, 1873, 1877, and one before 1881) [3].

Not only did Joseph and Marie Anna lose many children from death, but at least three of their children also left Canada to go to the United States before 1900. One was my 2nd great grandfather, Achilles Labrecque, in addition to his older brother Eugene and his younger brother Moise [4]. As a result of all the childhood deaths and emigration, Joseph and Marie Anna would have only 2 out of their 13 children living in Quebec after 1900, Marie Virginia Mathilda and Joseph.

Joseph and Marie Anna's ninth child, Marie Virginia Mathilda (Labrecque) Senechal [5] is living in Beauport, Quebec in 1891; the same district her parent were living in, in 1881. She is the only member of this family I have been able to find in the 1891 census, but I assume her parents are still living close by. I was not able to locate Marie Virginia in the 1901 census, but I did find her death recorded in the Beauport parish record in 1908.

Their fifth child, Joseph Labrecque and his family were living in Beauport, Quebec in 1881; the same district as his parents at that time. Joseph and his growing family did move out of Beauport to the ward of Jacques Cartier by 1901, while his parents Joseph and Marie Anna had moved to the St. Vallier district of Quebec, on the other side of the St. Lawrence River. (Marie Anna's mother, Justine Turcotte Raimond was still living until 1899 on the Island, in St. Jean parish; directly across the river from St. Vallier - maybe the moved to be closer to her.) By the 1911 census, Joseph and Marie Anna's son, Joseph, had moved to the St. Vallier district also. Joseph and Marie Anna are not recorded in the 1911 census; however, as they were not living at that time. Both of their death records are recorded in the Beauport parish, not St. Vallier. Perhaps they moved back to Beauport, or maybe they were just buried in Beauport, at the church they spent most of their lives with. Marie Anna died at the age of 74 in December of 1906, and Joseph died only a month later, in January of 1907 at the age of 77. They were fortunate to spend 55 years together.

Map of joseph labrecque and maria anna raimond family
1851-1907


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The Roman Catholic church at Beauport was the La Nativité de Notre Dame de Beauport. According to the eglisesdequebec.org website, the church that is standing now was built in 1917-1918, and is the 5th church built at Beauport. This is not the church that was standing while Joseph and Marie Anna were sill living. As their death records are from La Nativité de Notre Dame de Beauport, I assume they are both buried at this cemetery. There is a website that lists burials from this church, interment.com. I am not sure if all the names were recorded at this cemtery, but I do not find Joseph and Marie Ann Labrecque. I look forward to visiting someday to try to locate them.

links of interest:
1. Wikipedia's Timeline of Quebec history (1867 to 1899)
2. Wikipedia's Timeline of Quebec history (1900 to 1930)

notes:
1. I was not able to find them in the 1891 census.
2. breakdown of Joseph's occupation throughout the records:

marie's baptism - cultivateur: farmer
no occupation stated for eugene, joseph (1st), marie hermine, achilles, charles jean
baptist, joseph alphonse baptisms
Moise, joseph (2nd), marie virginia mathilda baptisms, joseph (1st) death - menusuir:
carpenter
marie florine baptism, Marie Florine death - meunier: miller
unnamed labrecque bapt, joseph arthur baptism and death - mecanicien: mechanic?

1852 cultivateur: farmer
1856, 1857, 1861,1867 menusuir: carpenter
1861 census journalier: day laborer
1871 census meunier: miller
1871 meunier: miller
1873, 1876, 1877 mecanicien: mechanic?
1881 - 1901, charretier: wagoner, carter, teamster

3. I was not able to locate entries for death in the parish registers for their children Marie Florine or Joseph Alphonse, but they were not listed as children in their next census with Joseph and Marie Anna's family - most likely had died by the time the census was taken.
4. Joseph and Marie Anna's oldest son Eugene was in Cook County Illinois by 1897, they year he was married. He was an oiler for a railroad. He died in Illinois in 1931. Their son Achilles, my 2nd great grandfather, was in Massachusetts by 1888 when their son George was born in Cambridge, MA. Achilles died in Quincy, MA in 1937. Joseph and Marie Anna had one more son, Moise, move to the United States. I found a record of birth for a son of Moise, Harry, in Amesbury, MA in 1894. I have lost track of Moise after 1894, I am not sure if he moved back to Canada, but I could not find census or death records for he or his wife, Sarah. I found their son Harry living with his Aunt and Uncle (his mother's brother) in Wisconsin when he was only 16 in 1910.
5. It seems she was called Exilda or Esilda in the records.