Antoinetta Penta (1888 - 1975)

Born 22 Oct 1888 in Grottaminarda, Avellino, Campania, Italy

Ancestors

Daughter of Giovanni Antonio Penta and Mariantonia Moscaritolo

Wife of Lorenzo di Leo — married 19 May 1907 (to 12 Mar 1919) in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Wife of Rocco Silverio Schena — married 12 Aug 1923 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Died 30 Jan 1975 at age 86 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Antoinetta Penta migrated from Italy to USA.

This profile is part of the Haverhill, Massachusetts One Place Study.

Antoinetta Penta has Italian Roots.

Antoinetta Penta was featured in Italians in Haverhill.

Antoinetta was born in 1888 to Giovanni and Mariantonia Moscaritolo. Like her parents, she moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts. Over the course of her life, she had two husbands. Lorenzo di Leo and Rocco Silverio Schena.

With Rocco she had four children. She passed away in 1975.

DNA

Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between James Ferraiolo and his third cousin. Their MRCAs are their second great-grandparents, Pasquale Penta and Maria Vincenza Vaccaro. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 3rd-4th cousins based on sharing 90 cM across 4 segments; Confidence: Very high.

Sources

• Portale Antenati, Atti di Nascita, Birth of Antonia Penta. Accessed on 11 Mar 2024 from antenati.san.beniculturali.it Source: Archivio di Stato di Avellino - Stato civile italiano - Grottaminarda - 1888 - Nati - Atto 164 - right side of image 117 of 170

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4D2-L15 : 25 May 2018), Lorenzo Di Leo and Antoniella Penta, 19 May 1907; citing Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,299.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZT-R959 : 26 September 2018), Lorenzo Dileo and Antoniella Penta, 19 May 1907; citing Marriage, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011910.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQLN-ZXD : accessed 16 June 2020), Antoinette Schena in household of Rocco S Schena, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 66, sheet 23A, line 28, family 431, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 896; FHL microfilm 2,340,631.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4X8-DRG : 25 May 2020), Antoinetta Schena in household of Rocco Schena, Ward 5, Haverhill, Haverhill City, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 5-121, sheet 3A, line 26, family 50, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1580.

• Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/231483592/antionetta-schena

• O'Malley, Patricia (Trainor). "Italians in Haverhill" (Arcadia Publishing, 2001)