The Polistena
37 people called Polistena or Polistina are published in this archive, from 1798 to 2018. This page gathers them under the name, and shows how they are — and are not — joined to one another and to the other families.
Polistena: the line, generation by generation
Documented from 1883 · the oldest generation drawn is itself on a document- Gen. 1
Antonio Polistenafrom Scilla (family's tree)m. Giovanna Pontillo, of Scilla - Gen. 2Giovanni Polistenab. 1883from Scillam. Nunnziata Donato, of Scilla
- Gen. 3
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Angela Polistena1925–2018from Scilla (family's tree)at Brisbane, 2018m. Rocco Arena, of Scilla
Flags at a card's top: each place's state then, and today's where it differs (hover for which place).Flags: Flags Atlas, by David Defranceski, drawn for this project.
How our line connects
Not connected to our line yet. The Polistena meet the Mazza name line only in its living generations, which a family page does not name.
Cardssolid: documenteddashed: inferreddotted: family memory or the family's treetinted = our direct line
A toponymic — from the town of Polistena in the province of Reggio Calabria. It marks a family that moved from there, and was named for having done so.
As The Name puts it. A surname is a label, not a family: the lines below are the ones this archive can draw, and no others.
How this family reaches the children
Angela Polistena is generation 2, grandmother of the youngest generation, through her mother Nunnziata Donato. Living people are not named on family pages. The line the family is named for is on the front page.
2 children recorded show ↓ hide ↑
1 child recorded show ↓ hide ↑
5 children recorded show ↓ hide ↑
Brothers and sisters · 11 show ↓ hide ↑
37 people, 5 descent groups
A descent group is every bearer of the name who can be reached from one another through parent, child and marriage links between bearers — the rule the Mazza and Arena pages use. Two groups are two groups until a record joins them, however alike their names and their towns.
Also written Polistina (6 people). The data carries these as separate surnames; they are gathered on this page by the surname alone, each person keeps the name as written, and no two people are merged.
| Group | People | Years | Born mainly at | Direct ancestors | With a record read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 26 | 1875–2018 | Scilla, Brisbane | 3 | 7 |
| B | 4 | 1798–1840 | Scilla | — | 4 |
| C | 3 | 1909–1945 | Scilla | — | — |
| D | 3 | 1800 | Scilla | — | 3 |
| E | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
The living. 9 living people bear the name in the tree. A living person is named with relationships and a town and country, on a page of their own that search engines do not index, so they are counted here and not listed. The roster, filtered to Polistena →
3 ancestors of the two children this archive is for
Generation 1 is their parents; the generation counts back from there (The Ancestors). The quarter is the grandparent whose parent links lead up to the person (The Four Quarters).
| Gen | Name | Dates | Born at | Through | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Antonio Polistena | — | Scilla | Polistena quarter | Documented Disputed |
| 4 | Giovanni Polistena | b. 1883 | Scilla | Polistena quarter | Documented Disputed |
| 3 | Angela Polistena | 1925 – 2018 | Scilla | Polistena quarter | Documented Disputed |
Where the name is recorded
Counted from the places recorded for these 37 people (birth, death, burial), as the archive's gazetteer spells them.
| Place | People | Born | Died or buried | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scilla (the town page) | 20 | 20 | 2 | 1800–2018 |
| Brisbane (the town page) | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1918–2018 |
| Arneytown | 2 | — | 2 | 1917–2012 |
| New York | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Jackson | 1 | — | 1 | 1920–2008 |
| Nudgee (the town page) | 1 | — | 1 | 1925–2018 |
The families it is joined to
Every parent, child or marriage link from one of these people to a person of another surname, as the archive draws it. A living person on the other end is left out. The surname is the other person's, not a claim about their family.
The wider picture, family by family, is on The Marriages.
All 37 people of the name, oldest first
Each has a page of their own. 17 have no date in the data; they are known because a tree entry or a record names them.
| Name | Dates | Born at | Group | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giuseppe Polistena | c. 1798 – before 23 January 1881 | — | B | Documented |
| Maria Teresa Polistina | b. c. 1800 | Scilla | D | Documented |
| Rocco Polistina | b. 13 December 1833 | Scilla | B | Documented |
| Annunziata Polistina | b. 2 December 1836 | Scilla | B | Documented |
| Fortunata Polistina | b. 28 January 1840 | Scilla | B | Documented |
| Giuseppi Polistena | b. 1875 | Scilla | A | Family |
| Giovanni Polistena ancestor | b. 1883 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Giovanni Polistena | b. 1909 | Scilla | C | Family |
| Freddy Polistena | b. 1912 | — | A | Family |
| Antonino Polistena | 1917 – 2007 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Joseph A Polistena | 1917 – 2012 | Scilla | A | Family |
| Giovanna Polistena | b. 1918 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Santa Polistena | 1920 – 2008 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Maria Polistena | b. 1923 | Scilla | A | Family |
| Angela Polistena ancestor | 1925 – 2018 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Teressa Polistena | 1931 – 1934 | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Michael Antonio Polistena | 1933 – 2002 | Scilla | A | Family |
| Domenica Polistena | b. 1940 | Scilla | C | Family |
| Maria Polistena | b. 1945 | Scilla | C | Family |
| Antonio Polistena ancestor | — | Scilla | A | Documented |
| Antonio Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Benadetta Polistena | — | New York | A | Family |
| Camillo Polistena | — | Brisbane | A | Family |
| Francesco Polistena | — | Brisbane | A | Family |
| Fransceco Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Gaiatano Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Generosa Polistena | — | — | E | Documented |
| Giovanna Polistena | — | Brisbane | A | Family |
| Giovanni Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Nunziatta Polistena | — | New York | A | Family |
| Nunziatta Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Polistena | — | Brisbane | A | Family |
| Raffaele Polistina | d. before 7 November 1821 | Scilla | D | Documented |
| Rosa Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Santa Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Teresa Polistena | — | — | A | Family |
| Teresa Polistina | — | Scilla | D | Documented |
6 names here are borne by more than one person and the archive does not decide which is which: Giovanni Polistena (3), Antonio Polistena (2), Giovanna Polistena (2), Maria Polistena (2), Nunziatta Polistena (2), Santa Polistena (2). Every name →
What rests on a record and what rests on the tree
15 of the 37 have at least one record read for them (Documented); the other 22are known only from the family tree this archive was built from (Family), which cites little and is not evidence. Of the 85 parent, child and marriage links that touch these people, 12 are proved by a register or an index this archive has read; the other 73 come from the tree alone. 5 people have a register reading that disagrees with the tree (Disputed): it is on their own page and the Corrections.
The five words are explained on Method.
What the archive has already written about this name
Open questions that name it
- Who were the Polistena of Arneytown? — ANSWERED, 10 September 2026
On the work list
- How the Arneytown Polistena join the Scilla Polistena — asserted, not documented (next)
- Joseph Polistena's WWII draft card, and CEMLA for the Buenos Aires Prostamo (next)
- SCILLA — Nunziata Donato × Giovanni Polistena's marriage, about 1916 (next)
- Angela Polistena × Rocco Arena — documented as a fact, still undated (running)
- Camillo Antonio Polistena's own birth act, about 1835 (done)
- Camillo Antonio Polistena — born 21 September 1844, found (done)
- Donato–Polistena — four ties, and the first one now has a date (next)
32 corrections name this family in their heading. Corrections →
That everyone who bears this name is one family. They are gathered here by the name, and a line is drawn between two of them only where the tree or a register draws it. Where this page says "group", it means exactly that and no more.
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