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looking for relatives in Ottati

looking for relatives in Ottati

Posted: 12 Mar 2013 4:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Guadagno, Cardille, Cafaro
My grandfather was Giuseppe Guadagno, born on December 18, 1863 to Dominic and Pasqualina Guadagno in Ottati, Italy in the province of Salerno. He emigrated to Lawrence County, Pennsylvania in 1886. In late 1892 he married Marie Rose Cafaro, a recent immigrant from Caggiano, Italy, a town about 10 miles from his home town of Ottati. He had a brother Andrew who also immigrated at some point and lived with Guiseppi in 1900 in Leetonia, Ohio.

His two oldest children were born in Lawrence County, PA (Jeanette and John [Jack]). They then moved to Leetonia, Ohio where the next two children-Elizabeth[Lizzie] and Dominic Thomas[Tom]- were born. In 1903 they moved to South Sharon (later called Farrell, PA) where his last three children William, Madelaine[Lena], and Cecilia were born.

Name Change: Sometime in the late 1890’s he changed his name to Joseph Cardille, which was the last name of family friends also from Italy.

He became an American citizen in 1896. He worked in the steel mills most of his life and may also have owned a grocery store. He died May 13, 1941 and is buried at St. Anthony’s Cemetery in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

I am going to Italy this summer and would love to meet any family members in Ottati or on my grandmother's side, the Cafaro family in Coggiano.
Kathy
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