Giovanni Cuccia (1889)

Ancestors

Biography

Giovanni Cuccia, son of Antonino Cuccia and Rosa Maringo, is born and baptized 13 October 1889 in Corleone. His godparents are Antonino di Giglia and Giovanna Alfonso, a married couple.^[1]

Leoluchina Pennino, age 19 (b. 1892), marries Giovanni Cuccia on 11 July 1911 in New Orleans, LA.^[2]

Leoluchina, called Laura, and Giovanni, called John, have children: Rosa (c. 1913), Anthony (c. 1915), Frank (c. 1917), and Sam (c. 1919).

Giovanni Cuccia registers for the draft for WWI on 5 June 1917. He is 27, born 13 October 1890 in Corleone, Sicily, Italy. He lives at 3100 St. Anthony & Abundance, New Orleans, LA. He is an Italian citizen. He is a truck farmer, self employed at the same home address. He has three children and a wife. Doesn’t claim exemption. He is short and stout with brown eyes, black hair.^[3]

In the 1920 federal census of New Orleans, taken 10 January, John Cuccia, 29 (b. 1891), heads a household at 2402 Bourbon St with wife Laura, 27 (b. 1893), both born in Italy. He emigrated in 1900 and she in 1907. Also at home are their children Rose, 7 (b. 1913), Anthony, 5 (b. 1915), Frank, 2 yr 11 mo. (b. Feb 1917), and Sam, seven months (b. Jul 1919), all born in Louisiana. John is a laborer.^[4]

Frank Cuccia, age 11 (b. 1917), dies on 26 June 1928 in Louisiana. He is the son of John Cuccia and Leoluchina Pennino.^[5] Frank is buried with his maternal grandmother, and others from Corleone who are of unknown relation:

Josephine Cesano Pennino, wife of Paul Pennino, dies in May 1923 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. Other names on this same tomb are John Pennino, husband of Angelina Iannazzo, born 26 July 1876, died 19 December 1967. Angelina Iannazzo, wife of John Pennino, born 24 Jun 1882 died 3 June 1865. Frank Cuccia, born 11 Jan 1917, died 26 June 1928. Rosalia Mancuso, wife of Frank Pennino, born 1 November 1847, died 1 November 1922.^[6] John Pennino is Rosalia Mancuso's son.

Laura Pennine Cuccia dies 27 January 1970 in New Orleans. Her obituary runs on 29 January in the Times Picayune. Names her husband, John, daughter Rose Cuccia Bourgeois, sons Tony, Salvadore, John F., and Frank. Names her father Frank Pennino, and her brother, John Pennino.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism of Joannes Cuccia. (1889, October 13). Rec no. 476bis. "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LSS-ZBG?cc=2046915&wc=MG34-SPD%3A351041801%2C351041802%2C351292901 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Battesimi 1889-1895 > image 43 of 427; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
2. ↑ Louisiana Vital Records; Volume: 33; Page: 470 Ancestry.com. New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1831-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.
3. ↑ Registration State: Louisiana; Registration County: Orleans Draft Card: C Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
4. ↑ Year: 1920; Census Place: New Orleans Ward 7, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: T625_621; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 118 Enumeration District: 0118; Description: New Orleans City, Ward 7 (part), Precinct 6 (part) including Bethany Home bounded by Johnson (river side), Bourbon (upper side), Villere (lake side), Annette (lower side) Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
5. ↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZN5K-2B3Z : 27 May 2020), Lioluchina Pinnino in entry for Frank Cuccia, 1928.
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89940287/josephine-pennino : accessed 22 November 2021), memorial page for Josephine Cesano Pennino (1854–May 1923), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89940287, citing Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA ; Maintained by Graves (contributor 47171280) .
7. ↑ "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q5MF-FN11 : 18 July 2020), Laura Pennine Cuccia, 1970.