Rosalia Soldano is born and baptized on 17 April 1825 in Corleone, named after her maternal grandmother. She is the daughter of Maestro Giuseppe Soldano and Giuseppa Maniscalco. Her godparents are Maestro Pietro and Bernarda Cuti, a married couple. Her last name is Giordano in this record illustrating her husband's family tree[1].
Her sister Antonina, age two, and then his father, Maestro Giuseppe, age 45, die, one the day after the next, in August 1829, during the second cholera pandemic.
In 1834, Rosa, 8 (b. 1825), lives with her widowed mother, Donna Giuseppa Giordano, and her older siblings Lucia, 17 (b. 1817), Emmanuele, 14 (b. 1819, who will be a master shoemaker by trade), and Liboria, 10 (b. 1823), on the Rua del Piano.
Rosalia marries Maestro Leoluca Napoli on 31 July 1846. Her parents have died by this time.
Rosalia and Leoluca have one known child, Giovanna (1847).
Giovanna is born and baptized 24 September 1847. Her godparents are Rosalia's brother, Emmanuele Soldano and his wife, Maria Grazia Cinquemani.
Giovanna marries Giuseppe Zangara on 31 January 1866. Her parents are both still living.
Rosalia dies at age 64 (b. 1825) on 24 September 1889. Leoluca survives her. His last name has not been recorded in Rosalia's death record, though a space was left to enter it later.
Baptism of Rosalia Soldano, 17 April 1825
Giuseppa Giordano family, 1834 stato delle anime
Marriage of Leonisluca Napoli and Rosolia Giordano, 31 July 1846
Baptism of Joannam Napoli, 24 September 1847
Marriage of Joseph Zangara and Joanna Napoli, record no. 1747, 31 January 1866
Death of Rosalia Soldano, record no. 346, 24 September 1889
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