Rosario Patane

He is named for his paternal grandfather Rosario Patane. Nothing is known of him after this act: he is not the Rosario Patane who appears at Piedimonte in 1860 as the son of a Giuseppe, and no death has been sought. HIS WHOLE LIFE AFTER THE BIRTH ACT ARRIVED IN ONE DOCUMENT, 14 Nov 2026 - and he was unknown to this archive until this morning. «è morto PATANÈ ROSARIO di anni sessanta, bracciante, residente in questo Comune, NATO IN GIARRE, da FU ALFIO, e da FU SUDERI MARIA, MARITO DI SCIACCA MARIA». So he left S. Giovanni with the family, lived to about fifty-eight, worked as a labourer at Piedimonte Etneo and married a MARIA SCIACCA. «Sessanta» is three years out from his birth of 23 August 1828. His brother Giovanni had died sixteen months before him, and Rosario was a declarant at that death. HIS MARRIAGE IS FOUND, 14 Nov 2026, and it fills the gap between the birth act found this morning and the death act found this afternoon. Piedimonte Etneo, Matrimoni 1858 atto 11: «ROSARIO PATANÈ di anni TRENTA, bracciale, domiciliato in Piedimonte, FIGLIO DI ALFIO, bracciale, domiciliato in Piedimonte, E DI MARIA SUDERO, domiciliata ivi», marrying MARIA SCIACCA, 24, born at Piedimonte. The promise was made 6 April 1858 and the church celebration followed on 8 May. THE SESSION RE-ZOOMED THE BRIDE'S NAME because the reader had it as ANTONIA Sciacca, which would have implied a second marriage: the act reads MARIA Sciacca, and his death act of 1886 calls him «marito di Sciacca Maria». ONE WIFE, not two. NEITHER PARENT CARRIES «fu» AND BOTH ARE DOMICILED AT PIEDIMONTE, so Alfio Patane and Maria Suderi were alive and living there in April 1858. Thirty in 1858 means born about 1828, which matches his birth act of 23 August 1828 exactly. The act cites «volume de' documenti al FOGLIO 11», which is the pointer into the Piedimonte marriage processetti of 1858 - a bundle this archive has never opened.