Maria Carrabba (1849)

Born 22 Dec 1849 in Corleone, Palermo, Sicilia

Ancestors

Wife of Antonino Paternostro — married 25 Oct 1868 in Corleone, Palermo, Sicilia, Italia

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Biography

Maria Carrabba, the daughter of Bernardo Carrabba and Giacinta Spinella, who married in 1846, is born in her parents' home on via San Leonardo in Corleone on 22 December 1849.^[1] She is named after her paternal grandmother.

Maria marries Antonino Paternostro, son of Giuseppe Paternostro and Arcangela di Leo, on 25 October 1868.^[2]

Maria and Antonino have at least four children: Arcangela (c. 1869), Arcangelo (c. 1879), Giuseppe (c. 1883), and Giuseppe's twin sister, whose name is obscured in the manifest (c. 1883).

The following passengers from Corleone appear in sequence on the manifest of the Letimbro, arriving in New Orleans in 1886:

Giovanni Paternostro, 37 (b. 1849)

Maria Antonia Di Carlo, 26 (b. 1860)

Giuseppe Paternostro, 5 (b. 1881)

Vincenzo Paternostro, 4 (b. 1882)

Arcangelo Paternostro, 2 (b. 1884)

Mattea Di Carlo, 18 (b. 1868)

On the same manifest, also from Corleone:

Antonino Paternostro, 45 (b. 1841), farmer

Maria Carrabba, 37 (b. 1849)

Arcangela Paternostro, 17 (b. 1869)

Giuseppe Paternostro, 3 (b. 1883)

Yeomb? Paternostro, 3, female (b. 1883)

Arcangelo Paternostro, 7 (b. 1879)

Domenico Gennusa, 21 (b. 1865), farmer

Luisa Colletti, 33 (b. 1853)

Luisa Colletti, 8 (b. 1878)

Santa Nicolosi, 24 (b. 1862)

Vincenzo Nicolosi, 4 (b. 1882)

Bernarda Nicolosi, 2 (b. 1884)

Paolo Carrabba, 31 (b. 1855), farmer, Maria's brother

Orsola Madonia, 30 (b. 1856), Paolo's wife

Giacinta Carrabba, 1 (b. 1885), Paolo and Orsola's daughter

Calogero Paternostro, 40 (b. 1846)

Giovanni di Bella, 11 (b. 1875) (calls him Calogero’s son)

Calogero di Bella, 7 (b. 1879)

Gisa? Italiano, 11 (b. 1875)^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Estratto d'atto di nascita, Maria Carrabba, allegati 1868, "Italia, Palermo, Palermo, Stato Civile (Tribunale), 1866-1910," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97B-XSPZ?cc=2051639&wc=MCTM-F3D%3A351055601%2C352253401%2C352298701 : 22 May 2014), Palermo > Corleone > Allegati (nati, matrimoni, morti) 1868-1872 > image 170 of 2993; Tribunale di Cagliari (Cagliari Court, Cagliari).
2. ↑ Marriage of Antonini Paternostro and Maria Carrabba, record no. 1996, 25 October 1868, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DYDR-9G?cc=2046915&wc=MG37-L2S%3A351041801%2C351041802%2C351102301 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Matrimoni 1856-1871 > image 257 of 356; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
3. ↑ "Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKNP-PDBL : 12 October 2015), Arcangelo Paternostro, 1886; citing Ship Letimbro, affiliate film #069, NARA microfilm publications M259 and T905 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 200,210.