I first learned this fact from Ron Frazzini:From: Ron Frazzini <fraz0046
tc.umn.edu>Subject: Ancestry
Mark - Ran across your data and notes on ancestry, then looked at the web site. Some interesting links to my family. My name is Ron Frazzini. My grandfather, Damiano, was naturalized in Trinidad the same day as Emiliano, and other Frazzinis. Emiliano was my father's (Mirando Leopoldo Giuseppe Frazzini) godfather, and Ippolito was my uncle's (Albino Paolo) godfather. I found this in the church in S. Pietro Avellana from a rather grumpy, but cooperative priest. I've visited S. Pietro twice, and prowled through the records in the municipio with the help of a very cooperative bureaucrat. I've also been to Isernia to look for more records there, and have been relatively successful in piecing together something of a tree.
Damiano and Emiliano were both minors at naturalization, I believe, and according to the marriage records in S. Pietro, Damiano returned home very shortly after naturalization to be married to Giuseppa Colomba Morelli Dec. 31, 1904. Mirando and Albino followed, and the family moved back to the US to Denver around 1910. Interestingly enough, Giuseppa Morelli's mother was Lucia Carlino (or Carlini). Do you know any other surnames?
Buona fortuna
Ron
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>I've read over your email a few times and you may know more about my family than I do.
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>How did you know that Emiliano was your father's godfather? Was it actually from the church records?
One day after a several hour stint at Isernia in the archives, I drove back to SPA just in time to see the end of the evening mass. Seeing the priest was a suggestion of the archivist. The church is interesting in that it was about the only building in the town not destroyed in 1943 when the whole place was bombed. I was able to convince the priest to show me the records, but I had to have the specific dates, so this is not a good thing if one is not sure, and wants to just page through the records, as I did in Isernia, to find someone. He found my dad's (Mirando) and my uncle's (Albino) births, and the godfather is always listed as well as the midwife and other attendants. I did get to read the records.
Here is the list I found:
October 17, 1904
Damiano, Carmine, Giovanni, Emiliano, Pasquale, Vincenzo
October 20, 1904
Domenico, Emiddio
This came from a search in the Denver naturalization records, an extremely tiring and frustrating activity. We looked for the application for naturalization which needs to be filed four years in advance, but the records were missing. These would give some relatives. The naturalization record itself is useless for any kind of data.
Here's where things become more vague than usual. I think Damiano worked the mines, and maybe on the railroad. I'm convinced that any links in our families are through the brothers of Damiano (Pasquale Antonio and Domenico Giuseppe), as well as his father Nunzio. Nunzio had two brothers (Domenico Damiano, Pasquale Filippo) who also had families that would be relevant. There were three sisters of Damiano, but due to the patriarchal Italian system, we only know what happened to women if the parents wrote the husband's name on the birth certificate, and I do have some info here. I'm sure the son of Pasquale Antonio is still living in Denver, but he won't see me, although I've talked at length to his wife. There's been some stressful things along the way that are evidently not easily forgotten.
Damiano was divorced when the boys were in their early 20s, and he moved to California. Actually spent some time in the monastery at Santa Barbara. Rumor has it he returned to SPA and was killed in 1943.
As for the baptism for Damiano, it also occurred in San Pietro. He was born to Nunzio Frazzini, and Elisabetta Quaranta June 27, 1882 according to the records in Isernia. But, here is a glitch. He would have been over 22 years old at the time of naturalization, but the papers definitely are for a minor.
Valuable links for the family will be in the identification of the children of Damiano's and Damiano's father's brothers and sisters. I have their names, but ran out of time to search the marriage and birth records for any children of aunts and uncles. Damiano's father's name was Nunzio, and Nunzio's brothers and sisters were Pasquale Filippo,
Domenico Damiano, Maria Luisa, and Giovanna Francesca, all born between 1844 and 1859.
Some of this info may now be available via Salt Lake, but I haven't had the time to look.
Later,
Ron
