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Italian Adoptions 1800's

Italian Adoptions 1800's

Maria (View posts)
Posted: 18 Aug 2006 7:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Dolceacqua
My great-grandfather was adopted (left for dead) on the French-Italian border. He was named Camilo Dolceacqua after the family. We have been unable to find any birth documents. He moved to England (where I now live) and owned a business in Islington during Victorian era. He married Maria Benevento, my great-grandmother, and then they went to America after having three children, born in England. My question is that we really don't know his nationality or where he or his parents were from. I want to know more about Italian adoptions during that time-period. Any suggestions? Does anyone know why a child would have been left, during that time, besides the common idea that he was the child of a priest?

Thank you

Re: Italian Adoptions 1800's

Posted: 14 Sep 2013 2:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
Children were abandoned all the time, for any numbers of reasons (just as today). Going through a lot of old documents from various town's in the 1800s there are frequently children of unknown parents who are assigned a last name that I have seen, including my own great-great grandfather who was only claimed by his birth mother 6 years after he was born.
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