Luigia Di Carlo (1889)

Born 22 Sep 1889 in Corleone, Palermo, Italy

Ancestors

Wife of Antonino Castro — married 18 Oct 1913 (to 18 Jan 1968) in New York, New York, United States

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Biography

Luigia di Carlo is born 22 September 1889 in Corleone and baptized three days later. She is the daughter of Vincenzo di Carlo and Maria Santa Castro. Her godmother is her mother's half-sister Rosa Castro, unmarried daughter of Antonino.^[1] Luigia is named after her mother's stepmother, who is also Santa's aunt, and Rosa's mother.

On the SS Italia, sailing from Palermo on 22 October 1905 and arriving in the port of New York on 8 November, are the following passengers from Corleone:

27. Giuseppe Di Carlo, 25 (b. 1880), single, day laborer: a bracket connects lines 27-29. They are all going to their brother Antonino di Carlo at 2028 First Av., corner of 105th St., NYC

28. Giovanni Di Carlo, brother, 18 (b. 1887), single, day laborer

29. Luigia Di Carlo, sister, 16 (b. 1889), single

30. Salvatore Di Carlo, cousin? 17 (b. 1888), single, farm hand; going to his brother in law Salvatore Ridulfo (“Riddullo”) at 1144 1st Av, NYC^[2] According to a family genealogy, cousin Salvatore is Salvatore Campagna.^[3]

Luigia's sister, Rosa, marries their uncle Pietro on 20 June 1913 at the Church of Carmine in New York.

A few months later in the same church, Luigia marries Antonino Castro, son of Calogero Castro and Rosalia Lombardo, from San Cipirrello, on 20 October 1913 in New York, in the chiesa del Carmine.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism of Aloysiam di Carlo, record no. 445, 25 September 1889, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12332-69007-49?cc=2046915 : accessed 1 October 2015), Corleone > San Martino > Battesimi 1889-1895 > image 40 of 427; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
2. ↑ Manifest accessed on via SteveMorse on 17 November 2018.
3. ↑ Vincent Angelo Di Carlo. 2013. "The Di Carlo Family: From Corleone, Sicily, Italy." Accessed at http://www.dicarlofamiglia.com/uploads/3/7/3/5/37352841/dicarlo_family_05_18_2013.pdf on 11 November 2015.
4. ↑ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:243Y-762 : accessed 17 March 2016), Antonio Castro and Luisa Carlo, 18 Oct 1913; citing Marriage, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York City Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,613,803.