Ignazio Mazza

Both daughters' baptisms (19 December 1815 and 15 December 1812) name «Horatius Mazza» and Josepha Pulvirenti, so Orazio, not Ignazio, is the father's name in the church books; the 1836 promise's 'Ignazio' is therefore the misreading or the slip. CAUTION: at eighty he is some thirty to forty years older than Giuseppa Pulvirenti and fathered Alfia at about sixty-four; the age may be exaggerated, or a first marriage may lie behind them. THE ACT IS NOW OPENED (12 Nov 2026, an_ua72293 image 36 left page, re-zoomed at 1600 px): act 66, 8 September 1828, 'Orazio Mazza di anni ottanta' (the surname's double z is cursive; it reads Mazza), 'nato in questo territorio' (born in THIS TERRITORY, which means Piedimonte's, NOT written Mascali: the 'Mascali' of the closing table and of the extract's earlier reading is the readers' gloss on 'Idem' and is not borne out by the act), son of the late (fu) Innocenzio and of the late Antonia Sapienza; died at 2 in the afternoon (not 2 in the morning) in the countryside of this territory; the declarants are Alessandro Buccio (50, bracciale, strada Difesa) and Gaetano Cassaniti (40, vettaniere), who cannot write; the sindaco Domenico Vacy? signs; no wife is named. His birth has not been opened: if Mascali, the Bourbon registers there begin in 1820 and he is earlier, so the baptism is a parish record. THE 1828 REGISTER'S CLOSING TABLE (Morti 1828 row 66, an_ua72293 image 53, re-zoomed) lists «Mazza [?]razio, Idem (Mascali), Mazza Innocenzio, 8 September» with the first letter under an ink blot; an earlier reading of the blot as Ignazio is not borne out by the zoom, which shows the letters -razio, and the extract spells it Orazio. HIS CHILDREN, AS NOW READ: Mariano (b. c. 1809), Giuseppe (c. 1811), Alfia (1812), Domenica (1815), Innocenzio (d. 1876, aged 'eighty') and Rosa (c. 1819), by Giuseppa Pulvirenti; Innocenzio's mother is written ANGELA Pulvirenti.