Abundantia Cafarella (1609 - 1690)

Born 23 Sep 1609 in Lipari, Messina, Sicily, Italy

Ancestors

Wife of Vincenzo Benenati — married about 1637 in Lipari, Messina, Sicily, Italy

Descendants

Died 16 Apr 1690 at age 80 in Lipari, Messina, Sicily, Italy

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Biography

Abundantia Cafarella was baptized at Lipari, Provincia di Messina, Kingdom of Sicily, 23 September 1609, daughter of Mario Cafarella and Francesca di Patti; her sponsor was Ambrosio Cesario.^[1] She was buried at Lipari, 15 April 1690, aged about 82. "Abundantia Cafarella filia qm Mari Cafarella et Franciscie di Patti etatis sue annoru 82 circater."^[2] She married at Lipari, about 1637, Vincenzo Benenati, who was born at Lipari, about 1605, son of Ambrosio Benenati and Antonia d'Agostino; and died at Lipari, after 29 September 1680.^[3]

Documentation for Abbondanza Cafarella

• Genealogical proof to establish that Abbondanza Cafarella, wife of Vincenzo Benenati, is the daughter of Mario Cafarella and Francesca DiPatti.
• A Lipari marriage record for Vincenzo Benenati and Abbondanza Cafarella has not been found.
• There are baptism records for their children ranging from 1638 to 1648.
• An estimated marriage year is 1637 assuming that the earliest baptism for their children was for a first-born child and that they were married the previous year.
• A time frame for the birth of Abbondanza Cafarella is 1612 to 1622 assuming an age of 15 to 25 at the time of the alleged marriage.
• There is a Lipari death record dated 15 April 1690 for Abbondanza Cafarella, daughter of Mario Cafarella and Francesca DiPatti. No spouse name is documented which is typical for death records of this region and time period.
• There is a Lipari baptism record dated 23 September 1609 for Abbondanza Cafarella, daughter of Mario Cafarella and Francesca DiPatti.
• There are Lipari baptism records for other Cafarella families during the time frame of the expected birth of Abbondanza Cafarella, though none are for a child of that name.
• All this and given the rarity of the name Abbondanza in this region and time period, Abbondanza Cafarella, wife of Vincenzo Benenati, is the daughter of Mario Cafarella and Francesca DiPatti.^[4]

Children, born at Lipari, Provincia di Messina, Kingdom of Sicily:^[5][6][7]

1. Pasquale Benenato, bap. 23 May 1638; sponsor was Francesco Hernandes qm Diego di Spagno. He was bur. Lipari, 14 Jan. 1720, ae. ca. 75. He m. Maria Favaloro, dau. of Giacomo Favaloro.
2. Francesca Benenato, bap. 5 April 1640; sponsor was Filippo Parisi di Giuseppe. She m. Lipari, ca. 1656, Placido Barbuto, bap. Lipari, 4 Sept. 1638, son of Diego Barbuto and Angela di Rosa; sponsor was Maestro Coletta Calderaro, di Cola Francesco Calderaro. He was bur. Lipari, 28 March 1690, ae. ca. 50: "Placidus Barbuto, filius qm Didaci Barbuto, et [left blank], etatis sue 50 annorum."
3. Domenico Benenato, bap. 19 Sept. 1641; sponsor was Andrea Durna. He m. (1) Angela Moleti. Dominincu Benenati, son of Vincenzo Benenati and Francisca [sic] Cafarella, m. (2) Lipari, 14 June 1673, by Reverendo Don Angelo Vitagliano and Reverendo Don Placido Costa, Benedicta Pirera, dau. of Michele Pirera and Lucretia di Lipari. Reverendo Abbatte Don Placido d’Oddo approved dispensations for third and fourth degree consanguinity that year in Rome. The witnesses were Bartolomeo Artesci and Diacono Don Bartolomeo Bongiorno. Benedetta Pirera was bap. Lipari, 9 Dec. 1646, dau. of Michele Pirera and Lucretia di Lipari; sponsor was Pietro Pirera. She was bur. Lipari, 26 May 1713: "Benedicta Pirera Benenati, mater Ant.ni Benenati, etatis circiter 55 annorum." On 27 Oct. 1672, the Procurer Fiscal presented to court the case against Domenico Benenato di Vincentii, who was being prosecuted for adultery and publicly living earlier with Filippa Franchina, wife of Fanalis.^[8]
4. Giovanni Angelo Benenato, bap. 2 8bre (Oct.) 1645; m. Giovanna Panitieri.
5. Diego Benenato, bap. 9 June 1648; sponsor was Mariano Carrao. He was bur. Lipari, 20 Sept. 1729, ae. 85 [sic]. Didacus Benenati, son of Vincenzo Beninati and Bunda Cafarella, m. Lipari, 3 April 1678, by Reverendo Sacerdote Don Giovanni Costa and Reverendo Don Placido Costa, Margarita Panitieri, dau. of Pietro Panitieri and Angela Mazzola. The witnesses were Giovanni Benenati, Giuseppe di Luca, and Geronimo Innaro.

Sources

1. ↑ Registri ecclesiastici di Lipari (Messina), (1559-1913), Battesimi 1559-1696, FHL film 1,338,513.
2. ↑ Registri ecclesiastici di Lipari (Messina), (1559-1913), (Morti 1651-1902), FHL film, 1,338,518, found at FamilySearch.
3. ↑ Baptism date of his grandson Pietro Giacomo Benenati, son of Diego Benenati and Margarita Panittieri.
4. ↑ Cafarella Family Chart, found at Ustica Genealogy.
5. ↑ Registri ecclesiastici di Lipari (Messina), (1559-1913), Battesimi 1559-1696, FHL film 1,338,513.
6. ↑ Registri ecclesiastici di Lipari (Messina), (1559-1913), Morti 1651-1902, FHL film 1,338,518.
7. ↑ Registri ecclesiastici di Lipari (Messina), (1559-1913), Matrimoni 1594-1754, FHL film 1,338,516.
8. ↑ Francesco Vergara, Society and Justice in the Aeolian Islands (16th-18th centuries) the Criminal Trials of the Episcopal Curia of Lipari (Rubbettino, 1994), p. 75 (c.c. 8).