Barano d’Ischia, Campania One Place Study

Location: Barano d'Ischia, Naples, Campania, Italy
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Italy

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Contents 1 Barano d’Ischia, Campania One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.2.1 Other Facts 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.4.1 Barano Census 1.4.2 Barano Surname Frequency 1.5 Notables 2 Research Notes 3 Sources

Barano d’Ischia, Campania One Place Study

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Name

Geography

Continent: Europe

Country: Italy

Region: Campania

Province: Metropolitan City of Naples

GPS Coordinates: 40.716667, 13.916667

Elevation: 327.0 m or 1072.8 feet

Other Facts

• Geology:
  • Ischia is one of the Phlegrean Islands, off the northern arm of the bay of Naples. It is an active volcano (errupted in the last 10 thousand years), and comprises one end of the Campanian Plain volcanic arc, that includes the active volcano of Vesuvius and the adjacent supervolcanic region of the Phlegrean Fields (Campi Flegrei).
  • Ischia is a former supervolcano, with a collapsed caldera, that first arose from the Tyrrhenian Sea at least 150,000 years ago. There was a major eruption about 50,000 years ago that ejected approx. 40 cubic km of Mt Epomeo Green Tuff over the entire region.^[1]
  • The present island is the result of resurgent uplift of a horst, together with volcanic side cones from later eruptive events. ^[2]
  • The last eruption occured from the Barano area in Jan-Mar 1302. Lava flowed down to the sea, creating the Arso in Fiaiano, which was planted with pines in the 19th Century.
  • Ischia is also known as the Emerald Island (Isola Verde), because of the luxuriant vegetation on its rich volcanic soil.
• Political Geography:
  • Barano d'Ischia is one of the six Italian comunes on the Island of Ischia (Isola d'Ischia), that all are part of the Metropolitan City of Naples (Napoli). Naples was one of Provinces of the Italian Region of Campania^[3] until 2014, when it was redesignated a Metropolitan City.
  • Barano d'Ischia includes a number of Roman Catholic churches: ^[4] that are all part of the Diocese of Ischia.^[5]. The earliest known Bishop of Ischia, Pietro, was present at the Third Lateran Council of Pope Alexander III in 1079.
  • The sizes of the Island of Ischia and its six comunes are:

Ischitana Description	sq km	Population
Isola d'Ischia (overall)	46.3
Barano d'Ischia comune	11.1
Casamicciola Terme comune	5.6
Forio d'Ischia	12.85
Ischia (Porto & Ponte) comune	8.0
Lacco Ameno	2.08
Serrara Fontana	6.7

• Barano d'Ischia is the second largest comune by area on Ischia (after Forio d'Ischia), but with many fewer permanent inhabitants, resulting in a lower overall population density.

History

• The island was one of the first Greek colonies, settled in the 4th Century B.C., and was named Pithekousa, possibly after the volcanic pithos (pottery clay) found there.
• It was an important stopping point for Greek shipping, on the trade route between Greece and northern Italy.
• The Greek colony was on the northern side of the island, but they also had a nymphaeum on the southern side, in an area that is now part of the Barano d'Ischia comune. This was associated with the hot mud pools that bubble from the ground, and the natural springs that emanate from the hillside of Epomeo, and which have carved deep ravines in the soft volcanic rock.
• The island was renamed Aenaria by the Romans, who followed Pliny's and Strabo's advice to soak in the thermal springs, that are still a feature of the Barano comune.
• The main historic sites^[6] in Barano comune include:

• the Pilastri aqueduct (1470) was built to take water from other Barano springs to a distant fortified islet (Castello Aregonese).
• the Church of St. John the Baptist (15th century) is one of the most ancient in the island. It houses a canvas by a Caravaggist.
• there is a Saracen Tower in the village of Testaccio, which is one of several defensive structures on the island, intended to help protect the local population from maurauding pirates
• the ruined (?) windmills on Montebarano took advantage of the winds at that elevation to grind (??).

Population

Barano Census

Barano d'Ischia comune population table:

Census	Barano	Casomicciola	Forio	Ischia	Lacco Ameno	Serrara Fontana	Total
1861	6241
1871	6782
1881	6564
1891
1901	7012
1911	7197
1921	8192
1931	8842
1936	9252
1941	wartime
1951	10385
1961	11416
1971	14339
1981	16038
1991	16031
2001	19253
2011	18688
2021	TBD

• NOTE these numbers represent the permanent (winter time) population, as Ischia (like Capri) is a well known tourist destination. Many Neapolitans have inherited or bought weekend and holiday residences, and other tourists fill the hotels and rental properties during the summer season (Easter to late autumn).

Barano Surname Frequency

This table of estimated surname frequency is based on running multiple queries against the Ellis Island immigration database^[7] looking for how many persons in total, of each surname, put location "Barano" as their last place of residence / birth place. For comparson totals are also given for the location "Ischia" without "Barano", and the overall total for all locations (mostly Italy).

• NOTES:

1. This assumes that likelihood of emigrating is independent of surname, so numbers emigrating is a good proxy for surname frequency. This may not be true for immigration to the USA via Ellis Island. If one member of a family emigrates they tend to attract other to the same place.
2. The sortable table only lists surnames that returned a non-zero total for Barano.
3. The remaining surnames, that returned a zero total, are listed in alphabetical order after the table.
4. An initial list of surnames from Barano was created by inspecting a subset of the birth, marriage and death records for the comune.
5. Further common surnames, that are known to be associated with Ischia, were either added to the list, or those that returned a non-zero total were added to the table. Common surnames were abstracted from lists of surnames having two or more entries in the 1995 telephone directories for the Ischia comunes of Lacco Ameno & Serrara Fontana.
6. It should be noted that any extrapolation of this surname frequency, from Barano d'Ischia to other comunes on Ischia, would have to assume that the surname distribution is the same for all comunes (which is probably untrue).

Surname	Total	Total	Total
	Barano	Other comunes	Any
Agnese	29	7	277
Arcamone	11
Baldino	25
Barbato	3
Boccanfuso	8
Buono	107	53	1
Carpasso	2
Cenatiempo	12
Conte	35
Conti	1
Cuomo	8
De Luca	5
Di Costanzo	90
Di Iorio	54
Di Meglio	126
DiMeglio	23
Di Scala	77
Galano	11
Lombardi	28
Mancusi	2
Marino	4
Mattera	54
Mazzella	1
Migliaccio	22
Neapolitano	1
Russo	2
Santucci De Magistris	1
Schiano	8
Scotti	11
Spennato	23
Taliercio	14
Trani	2

• Zero totals: Agrelli; Buonocore; Candia; Casiano; Capezza; D'Arco; De Siano; Ferrandino; Magliola; Maniero; Mormile; Santore; Sasso; Sirabella;

Notables

• None identified on Wikipedia

Research Notes

• Local Cemeteries:
  • search Cimitero di Piedimonte, Barano d'Ischia, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy.
  • search Community Cemetery at Campagnano, Isola d'Ischia, Città Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy.
• The FamilySearch Wiki contains useful information about Italian genealogical records:
  • Italy
    • Italian Census and Family Status Certificates
  • Italian Region of Campania
  • Campanian Province / Metropolitan City of Naples
    • Campania
    • Naples - Learn Research at FamilySearch Learning Center
  • Island of Ischia
  • Comune of Basano d'Ischia
    • Civil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the town of Barano d'Ischia (Comune di Barano d'Ischia).
  • Parish of St Sebastian Martyr, Barano d'Ischia.
    • Images of baptisms, marriages and deaths from the Parrocchia di San Sebastiano Martire within the Comune of Barano d'Ischia, Province of Napoli, Italy.

Sources

1. ↑ ["Age and geochemistry of tephra layers from Ischia, Italy: constraints from proximal-distal correlations with Lago Grande di Monticchio" Emma L. Tomlinson et al (2014)]
2. ↑ [Volcanology of Ischia (Italy) "Alessandro Sbrana, Paola Marianelli & Giuseppe Pasquini"]
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campania
4. ↑ https://www.antenati-italiani.org/en/towns/63007-barano-dischia
5. ↑ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Ischia
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barano_d'Ischia#History
7. ↑ https://www.StatueOfLiberty.org/passenger/