Giuseppe Ventrice

Why this person is here

Giovanna's father, and he died TWO DAYS BEFORE HER THIRD BIRTHDAY. Act 12 of Briatico Morti 1831, read in the original: dead at two in the morning on 21 June 1831 in his own house, «di anni TRENTA», declared by Giacomo Comerci, a miller, and Rosario Zungri, a bracciale. THE YEAR CORRECTS THIS ARCHIVE: the certified copy in the marriage bundle was read as 1839 and published that way; the original says 1831 and the rest of the 1839 register agrees it cannot be. HIS AGE IS STILL IN DISPUTE — thirty at death (born c. 1801) against the thirty-three he gave for HIMSELF when he registered Giovanna's birth in June 1828 (born c. 1795). The archive carries his own declaration and keeps the other on the record. HE MARRIED AT ZAMBRONE ON 2 MARCH 1824, a contadino of thirty-four born at S. COSTANTINO, and the act calls him «figlio DEL FU DOMENICO e DELLA FU ANNA MAROPOLI» -- so BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE DEAD by then, which dates his mother's death for the first time. On the surname MAROPOLI against this archive's ANNA FAMA, see the corrections page.