It was common in Prizzi to assign the name of a child who died at birth, Maria Carmela Mancuso, b. and d. 6 Jan 1842, to a later child.
Sources
"Italy, Births and Baptisms, 1806-1900," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV1Q-XXC : accessed 12 Oct 2012), Vincenzo Mancuso in entry for Maria Carmela Mancuso, 21 Dec 1849.
Maria Carmela Mancuso
Vincenzo Mancuso
Biagia Milone
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Maria Carmela by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Maria Carmela: