Maria Cascio (1882)

Born 11 Nov 1882 in 18 via Puccio, Corleone, Palermo, Italy

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Biography

Maria Cascio is born at 18 via Puccio in Corleone on 11 November 1882, to Biagio Cascio, age 40, agricola (farmer) and Caterina Morello, contadina (peasant). She is baptized Mariam the next day. Her godparents are Andrea Palumbo and Lucia, his unmarried sister.^[1]

Calogero, age 25, sails from the port of Napoli on 16 September 1903 with two of his sisters, Maria, age 20, and Giuseppa, age 18, on the S.S. Nord-America to New York, arriving on 1 October 1903. According to the manifest, he is a worker and his sisters are servants. They are all literate. They are joining their cousin Giuseppe Morello, the notorious gangster.^[2]

Calogero, 25 (b. 1877, he is 28) and his sisters Marietta, 20 (b. 1882: she is 23), and Josephine, 18 (b. 1885, she is 19), appear in the 1905 state census for New York, living in Manhattan. Calogero is a laborer. It says here that Marietta "Silks Waists" and Josephine is a Collar Maker.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth of Maria Cascio, Atti di Nascita dated 12 November 1882, "Italia, Palermo, Palermo, Stato Civile (Tribunale), 1866-1910," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32358-12750-32?cc=2051639&wc=MCTM-DTL:351055601,352253401,352269501 : accessed 15 Mar 2014), Palermo > Corleone > Nati, pubblicazioni, matrimoni, cittadinanze, morti 1882-1893 > image 209 of 3063; citing Tribunale di Cagliari.
2. ↑ Ship manifest, S.S. Nord-America, 1 October 1903,S.S. Nord-America 1 October 1903
3. ↑ "New York State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YSR9-G95?cc=1463113&wc=Q69N-863%3A42719801%2C43004401%2C44869201 : 22 September 2016), New York > Manhattan > image 64 of 78; county offices, New York.