Fabulous Friday's Forever Family Featuring...

Angela Colarulli, my great grandmother!! Another ancestor with a very beautiful name. Angela was born in San Felice Circeo, Italy in 1853.

San Felice Circeo, Latina, Lazio, Italy
About one hour south of Rome

Her parents are Lorenzo Colarulli and Maria Di Prospero. Angela married Giuseppe Di Maggio on October 20th 1884. October 20th is my birthday so that is kind of cool!! I found lots of information on this marriage record. I love Italian civil records!! They always have the mothers maiden names. So when I received this record I was very excited to add more surnames to my family history!!

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There is another really cool thing about Italian records. You can tell if a parent was living at the time the record was registered. Notice it says "figlia di" before the parents name. That means daughter of, if they use "figlia fu" it means that the parent is deceased. So, that gives you a clue as to when those parents may have been living.
Angela and Giuseppi had at least seven children, Luigi, Emilio, Giovanni (who died as a baby), Natalino, Ascenza, Pio Celestino (my grandfather) and Maria Flaminia. Aren't those beautiful names?? I know that some of Angela's children came to the American continent and settled in Canada. I wonder how hard that would be to have your children leave you behind and go to another country. I'm sure she must have missed them terribly!! I'm always grateful for my ancestors who traveled far so I could be born Ameican. But, somehow I still feel sad for those who stayed in the "Old Country". At least we can be a forever family and one day I will ask her how she survived that heart break.