Salvatore C Bellomo (1915 - abt. 1980)

Born 25 Apr 1915 in New York City, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died about Jan 1980 at about age 64 in Bronx, New York, United States

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Biography

Salvatore Bellomo is born 25 April 1915 in the Bronx^[1], in New York City, the son of Liborio Bellomo and Biagia di Blanda.

Liborio Bellomo names three children in his 1927 naturalization petition: the oldest is Salvatore, born 25 April 1915 in New York.

Salvatore's parents evidently married the previous year. A margin note in Liborio's baptismal record says that Liborio married Biagia di Blanda on 7 June 1914 in the chiesa di S. Lucia on East 104th St., in New York.^[2] This is the first of two known marriages for Liborio, confirmed in the civil record.^[3]

Salvatore's father remarries in 1918 to Giuseppa Catania, who is also from Corleone. Liborio and Giuseppa have two more children: Marianna, born in 1919 in New York, and Leoluca, born in 1922 in Italy.

In 1927, when Liborio petitions for US citizenship, Salvatore lives with his stepmother and half-siblings in Corleone.

On the SS Saturnia sailing from Palermo on 8 January 1932 and arriving in the port of New York on 19 January 1933 (this is probably an incorrect arrival year), a list of US citizens on board includes

6. Salvatore Bellomo, 17, single, born in NYC on 4 April 1915. Handwritten on the form is the information on when he was naturalized, 10/17/32 or 11/22/32 in the consulate in Palermo. He is going to his father Liborio at 169 E. 92nd St, NYC.^[4]

In 1937, Salvatore's half-brother, Leoluca, joins their father in New York. His travel manifest confirms his mother's name. Their father's WWII draft card names Leo Bellomo at his own home address as his contact person.

An air passenger manifest dates 20 March 1948, embarking in Rome and disembarking in New York City, passenger #3 is Salvatore Bellomo, age 33 (b. 1915), US citizen. Going to 751 E. 187th St, Bronx NY

Passenger #4 is scribbled out but was going to the same address. This may be Giuseppa Catania, Salvatore's stepmother.^[5] She is 63 (b. 1885), a match for her age at marriage to Liborio, and Italian.^[6]

Salvatore remarries to Giovanna di Giglia in Manhattan on 4 May 1949.^[7]

Bill Feather's Mafia membership website names Salvatore Bellomo (1915-1980) as a soldier in the Genovese crime family, active in the 1960-70s, and the father of Liborio S. Bellomo, the current boss of the Genovese Family.^[8] Salvatore is named as a Genovese soldier and Liborio's father in a book about Vincent "The Chin" Gigante.^[9]

Salvatore and Giovanna have one known child, Liborio Salvatore/Barney (1957).

Salvatore's son, Liborio S., is called "Barney." So is his double first cousin, Liborio T., who is two years younger. The two Barneys are both Genovese Family members. Their fathers are brothers and their mothers are sisters. ^[10][11] Salvatore has only one known brother, his younger half-brother, Leo.

Liborio Salvatore is born 8 January 1957^[12] in Corleone. He is active in New York's Genovese Family beginning in the 1980s.^[13]

Salvatore Bellamo, age 65, born 25 April 1915 in New York, dies in January 1980. He last resided in the Bronx, 10465.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ Cert. No. 8535. Source Information Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. Original data: New York City Department of Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. Digital Images.
2. ↑ Baptism of Liborium Bellomo, 28 May 1879, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LSS-NM7?cc=2046915&wc=MG34-SPX%3A351041801%2C351041802%2C351275901 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Battesimi 1877-1879 > image 150 of 182; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
3. ↑ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24Q9-888 : 10 February 2018), Liborio Bellomo and Biagia Diblanda, 07 Jun 1914; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,613,910.
4. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5D9-WLQ?cc=1923888&wc=MFKS-7NL%3A1030005201 : 2 October 2015), 5283 - vol 11384-11385, Jan 18, 1933 > image 815 of 869; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ B. (2018, July 26). Bellomo family history and connections. The Black Hand Forum [Online Discussion]. Retrieved 27 December 2019 from http://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&hilit=bellomo%20family&t=3712&sid=bad7e7bed5a58ac7c7a88b0b2bdf390b
6. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G94V-PGQ?cc=1923888&wc=MFKH-QP8%3A1030175601 : 3 October 2015), 7565 - vol 16133-16134, Mar 21, 1948 > image 78 of 699; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ License No. 10856. Source Citation New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 16 Source Information Ancestry.com. New York, New York, Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. Original data: Index to Marriages, New York City Clerk's Office, New York, New York.
8. ↑ Feather, B. (2017, November 15). Genovese Family membership chart 1960-70’s. Retrieved 27 December 2019 from https://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.com/2017/11/genovese-family-membership-chart-1960.html
9. ↑ McShane, L. (2018, September 1). Chin: The LIfe and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante. Citadel Press.
10. ↑ Raab, S. (1998, October 19). Barney, Mob Suspect, Says He's the Wrong Barney. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2019 from https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/nyregion/barney-mob-suspect-says-he-s-the-wrong-barney.html
11. ↑ Raab, S. (1998, October 20). Name of the Game Is Jury, Not Barney, a Judge Decides. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2019 from https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/20/nyregion/name-of-the-game-is-jury-not-barney-a-judge-decides.html
12. ↑ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KPJW-G9J : 21 November 2019), Liborio S Bellomo, 2001.
13. ↑ Feather, B. (2017, November 15). Genovese Family membership chart 1980-2000's. Mafia Membership Charts [Website]. Retrieved 29 December 2019 from https://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.com/2017/11/genovese-family-membership-chart-1980.html
14. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VSN2-33L : 20 May 2014), Salvatore Bellamo, Jan 1980; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).