Giovanni (Joanne) Gagliano is a Corleone native resident and the son of Tomasso (Thomas) Gagliano and Luigia (Aloysia) Ferraro. Giovanni's birth date is not yet known. I have estimated he is 20 when he marries.
Giovanni marries Antonia Oliveri on 29 September 1873.
Antonia and Giovanni have at least seven children together: Tomasso (1874), Calogero (1875), Rosario (1877), Salvatrice (1881), Maria Antonia (1883), Leoluca (c. 1887), Orsola (1888), and Luigia (1891).
In 1880, Antonia's sister, Lucia, marries Giovanni's brother, Luciano.
Six of their children are known from the records of their baptisms.
Leoluca is known from the record of his death, at one year of age, on 19 April 1888.
Luigia dies at seven months of age on 19 August 1891.
Tommaso marries Vita Provenzano on 27 September 1903. Giovanni and Antonia are still living at this time.
Giovanni immigrates to Houston, TX, at an unknown date.
His son, Tommaso joins him, sailing on the SS Canada and arriving 5 November 1913. He is 39 years old, an illiterate laborer. He is joining his father, Giovanni. His wife, Vita Provenzano, is still living in Corleone.[1]
Marriage of Joannis Gagliano and Antonia Oliveri, record no. 207, 29 September 1873
Baptism of Thomas Gagliano, 11 August 1874
Baptism of Rosarius Gagliano, 23 November 1877
Baptism of Calogerus Gagliano, 15 December 1875
Baptism of Salvatrice Gagliano, record no. 217, 25 April 1881
Baptism of Maria Antonia Gagliano, record no. 204, 6 May 1883
Death of Leoluca Gagliano, record no. 130, 19 April 1888
Baptism of Ursula Gagliano, record no. 527, 7 October 1888
Death of Aloysia Gagliano, record no. 254, 19 August 1891
Marriage of Thomas Gagliano and Vita Provenzano, record no. 60, 27 September 1903
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Featured Female Poet connections: Giovanni is 22 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 31 degrees from Ruth Niland, 34 degrees from Karin Boye, 30 degrees from 照 松平, 25 degrees from Anne Barnard, 44 degrees from Lola Rodríguez de Tió, 34 degrees from Christina Rossetti, 24 degrees from Emily Dickinson, 37 degrees from Nikki Giovanni, 27 degrees from Isabella Crawford, 29 degrees from Mary Gilmore and 23 degrees from Elizabeth MacDonald on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
G > Gagliano > Giovanni Gagliano
Categories: Corleone, Palermo | Double In Law Marriages | Migrants from Sicily to Texas | Cascio-10 Corleone Mafia Siblings