Alfio Patane
b. 1800
Of Giarre.
What the record says
The story
Where they came from
Parents
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About this record
Father of Leonarda and Giovanni Patane. His children's birthplaces differ: Giovanni at GIARRE (about 1822), Leonarda at PIEDIMONTE (about 1837), so the family moved in between. READ 12 NOV 2026: HE WAS BORN AT GIARRE and married there. The promise of 4 March 1821 (celebration noted for 5 April?) names him as a contadino of the quarter 'Maurizio?' of Giarre, son of Rosario Patane (55, contadino) and Venera Grasso (45), and his bride as Maria Suderi (20), daughter of Antonino Suderi (60, contadino) and Venera Vaglia? (55), of the parish of S. Giovanni Battista. Witnesses Giuseppe Patane (25, contadino), Giuseppe Grasso (24, contadino), Isidoro Mangano (45, calzolaio) and Sebastiano Nicotra (30, contadino). So the Patane line goes back one generation to Giarre, and the marriage was in 1821, a year before Giovanni's birth.
Where this comes from
This person is not in the family's file. They exist here because an act names them, and this archive has read it. The register gives their trade as contadino. The reading is Piedimonte Etneo, Matrimoni 1860 atti 30 and 31; Giarre, Matrimoni 1821 atto 20 (an_ua68849, images 41-43, the 'atto della solenne promessa'), read by a delegated reader and re-zoomed by the session. Nothing on this page comes from Michael's export, which never held them — so there is no tree account here to agree or disagree with, and the pieces the export arrived in do not include them. How many there are →
All 10 of the relationships named above have been proved by a record this archive has read, rather than taken from the family tree.
No record has been read for this person. What is known of them is what the tree asserts, and it is unverified.
Others of the same name
These three towns repeat their names relentlessly — this archive holds four men called Rosario Mazza and four called Giuseppe Arena. These are different people, kept apart on purpose rather than merged into one. Why →
- Alfio Patane — 1863 , Piedimonte Etneo
About these relationships
Two children here carry one name — Leonarda Patane, Rosa Patane. In these towns that is usually not an error: a child who died was very often replaced by a later child given the same name. It is also exactly how a records-matcher invents one person out of two, which is why they are kept apart here and the reader is told.