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Giovanni Antonio Ieradi b.c.1860 in Cortale (Calabria), Italy

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Giovanni Antonio Ieradi b.c.1860 in Cortale (Calabria), Italy

D.Michael Iradi (View posts)
Posted: 26 May 2003 5:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am searching for info. on Giovanni Antonio Ieradi of Cortale (later Borgia?), Italy, who died somewhere in S. America before 1896 (possibly in Buenos Aires.)

GIOVANNI ANTONIO IERADI, b.c.1860? in Cortale (Calabria), Italy d.? in Buenos Aires?, Argentina. He m.c.1878 Paola (b.1859 d.1944) dau. of Salvatore Stilo. He was born in Cortale per his Italian grandchildren. He was a mason by profession, and met her at the “Festival of St. Leonardo.” He left for S. America (because of lack of work) with his oldest son Tomaso (b.1883) probably sometime before the child was 10, and “disappeared” leaving Tomaso orphaned in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paola evidently “remarried” (although a marriage certificate has as yet to be produced) sometime before 1896 Gaetano Mazzoccha, a coachman and “major domo?” of the local Count in Borgia, Italy.

I was told by Eleanor Iradi that her father told her (and strangely none of his other 7 children) the following story: “Giovanni and Tomaso arrived in Brazil, where Giovanni (accidentally?) killed a man. He and Tomaso fled to Buenos Aires, but the dead man’s family killed Giovanni there.” My father, Eleanor’s brother, thinks that Eleanor created this account because her own father-in-law in NJ had been imprisoned for intentionally killing a man, and the story was invented to lessen the social shame of her and her husband within an Iradi family setting. Unfortunately, all those in the know regarding the apparent death of Giovanni Antonio Ieradi are either dead, or keeping their mouths shut (e.g. the Argentine branch of the Iradi family “doesn’t know” either….)
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D.Michael Iradi 26 May 2003 11:18PM GMT 
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