Looking for info on the following: Grandfather born in Alia 1895-Giulio Guccione(Julius in US)married in the US-Angelina Messina(or Angela)who was born in Contessa Entellina in 1900, his father Matteo Guccione married to Anna di Sclafani, both lived in Alia.
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Hi,
I know that my great grandfather was Matteo Guccione and his wife was Anna Di Sclafani. Both my parents come from Alia, Sicily.
what info are you looking for??
adele
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Adele, we must be cousins! It should be pretty easy to figure out how we are related. I am working on a family tree. I haven't made it public yet because I've only just started a few days ago. I am not able to find any documented info on Anna at all. Today, I think I found Matteo's parents names, Pasquale G and Carolina Biondolillo. Do you know if that is correct? You are welcome to email me directly - alfischbach@msn.com.
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Matteo Guccione born 6/10/1858 to Pasquale Gucciione b. 7/24/1811 and Maria Carolina Biondolillo b. 12/6/1815, youngest of 11 children
Anna di Sclafani b. 9/16, 1858, father Matteo di Sclafani b/ 6/28/1837, and Concetta Guccione b. 19/27/1828, 3rd of at least 4 children
Besides being husband and wife they were 3rd cousins, 1 time removed
Matteo and Anna were married in 1883 Children Carolina b. 1884 Pasquale b. 1886 Concetta b. 1889 Beatrice? b. 1891 Maria b. 1893 Guilio Matteo Antonino b. 1895 Liborio Giuseppe b.1897 Attilio Antonino b. 1901
Beeen researching Alia for almost 10 years
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Wow, thank you! That fills in some holes, especially dates and middle names. I wonder if it was unusual to marry your cousin back then? Or maybe they didn't know? I wanted to confirm that it was Carolina that you were speaking of who was the youngest of 11 children (not Matteo)? If the info is readily available to you, could you please check to see how many siblings Matteo had. The family says 2, but I found another born 11 yrs earlier that no one knows about. Maybe died young.
I've challenged myself to try and find living relatives in Alia and Contessa Entellina before my trip to Sicily in June.
Do you have a tree that includes these records or is this info included in your 10 years of notes? Or did you look it up specifically for me? Whichever it is, I thank you.
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It was Matteo that was 1 of 11.
Pasquale Gucciione b. 7/24/1811 and Maria Carolina Biondolillo b. 12/6/1815, and were married 11/16/1834 Children: Rosalia Ignazia b. 5/25/1835 Rosalia Ignazia b. 5/9/1837 Gioachino b. 3/5/1839 Giuseppa b. 2/27/1840 Maria Grazia b. 6/6/1842 Anna b. 6/24/1844 Concetta Maria b. 9/22/1847 Providenza b. 2/26/1850 Gioachino b. 10/30/1852 Biagio Maria b. 9/28/1855 Matteo b. 6/10/1858 At least 4 of the sisters married, Rosalia to Vitale Allesandra, Giuseppa tp Giudeppe Cardinale, Maria Grazia to Placito Mule of Villalba, and Anna to Francesco Giuseppe Federico.
As to marrying cousins, it was not unusual, especially that distant. I have found a few instances of 1st cousins marrying. Alia was relatively isolated over the last 400 years, founded about 1624. By blood or marriage, many Aliese are related. I was told when I visited there in 2004, that the local dialect of Sicilian spoken in Alia was specific to it, and was not immediately understood by the villagers from around it. Of course today, most if not all can speak standard Italian, when they speak among themselves, they speak their own dialect.
Of course you know that Contessa is an Arbaresh town, desecendants of Albanian mercenaries from the 1400s. There are about 7 or 8 towns like it. The oldtimers speak a completely different language, combination of Albanian, Greek and Sicilian. the founders of the Monteleone hotel in New Orleans were from Contessa. And for a long time many of the people were Greek Orthpdox, and not Catholic.
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Hi was reading your email. You are mentioning my family how do you get all of that info especially birth dates??
are you a family member as well.
my uncle is doing a family tree and will be interested in this!
thanks alot
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Thank you. This gives me lots of clues for researching! It is a tremendous help!
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I have done extensive research on Alia. I am not a Guccione, my ggg-grandmother was Nicosia Guccione. I think she was born in Alia, though she lived in Cerda for a while. She should have died in Alia, but have not been able to find her there. I even know that she died between 1830 and 1834, but not where. I have more infomation on Gucciones of Alia. My interest in Alia stems from my grandfather was born there in 1880.
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I have done extensive research on Alia. I am not a Guccione, my ggg-grandmother was Nicosia Guccione. I think she was born in Alia, though she lived in Cerda for a while. She should have died in Alia, but have not been able to find her there. I even know that she died between 1830 and 1834, but not where. I have more infomation on Gucciones of Alia. My interest in Alia stems from my grandfather was born there in 1880.
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