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Teresa Ventura and her children recorded on April 24th 1879, three weeks after the death of her husband Francesco.
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My great grandfather’s Gennaro Di Lernia and Maria Carmela Sanson’s wedding certificate (Cathedrale_matrimonorum_I_252).
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The baptism certificate of Giovanni Battista Di Lernia (written Dellerno, while his father is Delerno) (Cat.Baptisarum2_234). His godfather was Giovanni Camporeale. In the margin the record of his wedding.
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The record of Luca Di Lernia’s baptism (Rosaire_Baptisatorum_I_105), godfather Francesco Scagliarini, and death (Rosaire_Mortuorum_1_054) below.
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My grandfather, Policarpo’s baptism certificate (Rosaire Baptisatorum I 021).
His godmother was Anna Dellerno, probably a cousin, daughter of Giuseppe, son of Spiridione, and Francesca Collaro. Five years later, in 1910, she would marry Michele Tito.
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Giovanni Battista and Elisabeth Portelli’s wedding certificate. Here the name is written Dilernia. (Rosaire_Matrimoniorum_I_086). Witnesses were Giovanni Caruana and Lucia Scagliarini.
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My grandfather Policarpo during his military service, around 1924.
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The Italian Consulate register, where the family of Felice (Filippo) was registered, probably in 1884, being missing the last three children. What looks strange is the fact that also Luigi, who was born in 1882, is not visible.
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The register of deaths of Holy Rosary Church, where the death of (Filippo) Felice Piccinini is registered (Rosaire_Mortuorum_1_054).
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My great grand-father Nicola Piccinini’s certificate of baptism from the Cathedral register (Cat. Baptisarum1_176).
His godparents were Victor Manghir and Helena Pirghouly. Note that the surname has been corrected, both on father’s and son’s name, from Pezzinino to Piccinino (or Piccino?). In the margin, the recording of his wedding.
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My great-grandmother Teresa’s certificate of baptism (Cat. Baptisarum 1_245). Her godparents were Alessandro Delari and her mother’s cousin Virginia Verdori, who will become her uncle Antonio Mazzei’s wife the following year.
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Egidio Mazzei, my great grandmother Teresa’s brother, in 1942 in Rhodes, with Carletto Piccinini, grandchild of his sister Teresa, being son of her son Vincenzo and Angela Scagliarini.
According to family tales, Egidio had been a musician: he used to play piano and harp, that he had in the house in Rhodes where he lived with my great grand-parents.
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Two pictures of Maria Mazzei: as a young lady in Izmir and, later (below), in Rhodes, holding the picture of her partner Gioacchino.
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The register of Izmir Cathedral (Cathedrale_matrimonorum_II_223) recording the wedding of Nicola and Teresa, being witnesses Rudolph Steinborn and Elisa Armao.
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Teresa Mazzei and Nicola Piccinini in 1940, when Teresa was 58 years old and Nicola 60.
Unfortunately the picture is in very bad conditions, having been used for the funerary monument.
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The registration of Vincenzo Piccinini’s baptism, celebrated in Izmir Cathedral (katedralBapt.3_079).
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The baptism of Felice Piccinini’s was celebrated in the Holy Rosary Church (Rosaire_Baptisatorum_I_034), godfather Lucas Cauki. Note that the annotation “morto 1911” is wrong (in fact he died in 1909): he was mistaken with his grandfather Filippo Felice, who died that year.
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The record of Felice’s death (Bayraklı JC3 139) in the register of the church of St Antony in Bayraklı.
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Baptismal entry of Polina Antonia Piccinino
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My grandmother Laysa Piccinini, in Rhodes, around 1933.
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Laysa and her sister Pola Piccinini, in Bari around 1946.
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The baptism of Carlo Piccinini in the register of the Holy Rosary Church (Rosaire_Baptisa-torum_I_133).
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The baptism of Felice Piccinini in the register of the Holy Rosary Church (Rosaire_Matrimoniorum_I_206). The note in red refers to his confirmation celebrated in the same temple on 31st May 1923.
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Felice Piccinini and his wife Nina Koukakis (o Coccachi), born in Izmir too. The picture above is taken in Venice, the one below at the Acropolis, in Athens.
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Egidio Piccinini, on the left, with a friend. As written on the back (below), this picture was taken during a journey he made in April 1932 to the village of Bournabat, where he had spent some years when he was a child. At the time of this trip he was 19 and he lived with his family in Rhodes.
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image courtesy of Anna Laysa Di Lernia
It seems that Egidio Piccinini was used to travel, since the year before, in July 1931, he had been in Congo; I don’t know whether he was working there or he went on holiday.
The picture above was taken on that occasion, as he writes on the back (below): “Souvenir of my stay in Belgian Congo...”
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