The Prostamo
51 people called Prostamo or Prostamo Di Maio are published in this archive, from 1697 to 2010. This page gathers them under the name, and shows how they are — and are not — joined to one another and to the other families.
Prostamo: the line, generation by generation
Documented from 1760 · 2 generations above the oldest documented person are on the family's tree alone- Gen. 1
Franco Antonino Prostamob. 1697from Briatico (family's tree)m. Agnere Polito, of Briatico - Gen. 2Antonino Prostamob. 1726from Briatico (family's tree)m. Caterina Scangiaterra, of Briatico
- Gen. 3Pasquale Prostamo1760–1829from Briatico (family's tree)at Pizzo, 1829m. Caterina Di Meio, of Briatico
- Gen. 4Antonino Prostamob. 1785from Briatico (family's tree)m. Maria Fragala, of Briatico
- Gen. 5Domenico Prostamob. 1820from Briatico (family's tree)m. Giovanna Ventrice, of Briatico
- Gen. 6Alfonso Prostamob. 1858from Briatico (family's tree)m. Caterina Melluso, of Briatico
- Gen. 7
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Francessco Prostamo1900–1983from Briatico (family's tree)m. Maria Rosa Melluso, of New York - Gen. 8
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Domenica Prostamo1928–2010from Briatico (family's tree)at Brisbane, 2010m. Sebastiano Mazza, of Piedimonte Etneo↔ our gen. 4
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
- Our line · Gen. 4Sebastiano Mazzamarried
documentedin the story →Naturalisation file: NAA: J25, 1971/1074 — «Mazza, Sebastiano; wife Domenica [nee Prostamo]», 1950-1971
Cardssolid: documenteddashed: inferreddotted: family memory or the family's treetinted = our direct line
Rare, and concentrated. Almost the whole Italian distribution sits in a few Calabrian comuni around Vibo Valentia. A rare surname in one small place is the best gift a genealogist gets: two Prostamo of Briatico almost certainly are related.
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
Domenica Prostamo, mother of the generation that carries the Mazza name, is generation 2 here, beside her husband Sebastiano Mazza. This is the longest descent in the archive. 4 generations rest on the family tree alone, marked where they fall. Living people are not named on family pages. The line the family is named for is on the front page.
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51 people, one descent group
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. Here there is only one: no bearer stands alone.
Also written Prostamo Di Maio (1 person). 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.
The living. 29 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 Prostamo →
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Franco Antonino Prostamo | b. 1697 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Family |
| 9 | Antonino Prostamo | b. 1726 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Family |
| 8 | Pasquale Prostamo | 1760 – 1829 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Family |
| 7 | Antonino Prostamo | b. 1785 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Documented Disputed |
| 6 | Domenico Prostamo | b. 1820 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Family |
| 5 | Alfonso Prostamo | b. 1858 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Documented |
| 4 | Francessco Prostamo | 1900 – 1983 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Documented |
| 3 | Domenica Prostamo | 1928 – 2010 | Briatico | Prostamo quarter | Documented Disputed |
Where the name is recorded
Counted from the places recorded for these 51 people (birth, death, burial), as the archive's gazetteer spells them.
| Place | People | Born | Died or buried | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briatico (the town page) | 44 | 44 | 4 | 1697–2010 |
| Pizzo | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1760–1860 |
| Buenos Aires | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1907–1930 |
| Nudgee (the town page) | 2 | — | 2 | 1928–2010 |
| Brisbane (the town page) | 1 | — | 1 | 1928–2010 |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | — | 1875 |
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.
27 more families, each joined by fewer links
The wider picture, family by family, is on The Marriages.
All 51 people of the name, oldest first
Each has a page of their own.
| Name | Dates | Born at | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franco Antonino Prostamo ancestor | b. 1697 | Briatico | Family |
| Antonino Prostamo ancestor | b. 1726 | Briatico | Family |
| Pasquale Prostamo ancestor | 1760 – 1829 | Briatico | Family |
| Franco Ant Prostamo | 1768 – 1823 | Briatico | Family |
| Nicola Prostamo | b. 1768 | Briatico | Family |
| Angela Prostamo | 1772 – 1848 | Briatico | Family |
| Domenico Prostamo | 1781 – 1818 | Pizzo | Family |
| Antonino Prostamo ancestor | b. 1785 | Briatico | Documented |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1796 – 1827 | Briatico | Family |
| Elizabetta Prostamo | b. 1798 | Briatico | Family |
| Giorgio Prostamo Di Maio | 1798 – 1860 | Pizzo | Family |
| Izabella Prostamo | b. 1818 | Briatico | Family |
| Domenico Prostamo ancestor | b. 1820 | Briatico | Family |
| Nicola Prostamo | b. 1820 | Briatico | Family |
| Sebastiano Prostamo | b. 1825 | Briatico | Family |
| Foca Prostamo | b. 1826 | Briatico | Family |
| Antonino Prostamo | b. 1850 | Briatico | Family |
| Antonio Prostamo | b. 1850 | Briatico | Family |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | b. 1852 | Briatico | Family |
| Pasquale Prostamo | b. 1857 | Briatico | Family |
| Alfonso Prostamo ancestor | b. 1858 | Briatico | Documented |
| Antonino Prostamo | b. 1858 | Briatico | Family |
| Laura Prostamo | b. 1859 | Briatico | Documented |
| Antonino Prostamo | b. 1860 | Briatico | Family |
| Rocco Prostamo | b. 1860 | Briatico | Family |
| Carmela Prostamo | b. 1863 | Briatico | Documented |
| Andrea Prostamo | b. 1875 | Italy | Family |
| Domenico Prostamo | b. 1889 | Briatico | Family |
| Giovanna Prostamo | b. 1892 | Briatico | Family |
| Mattea Prostamo | b. 1895 | Briatico | Family |
| Francessco Prostamo ancestor | 1900 – 1983 | Briatico | Documented |
| Leone Prostamo | b. 1902 | Briatico | Family |
| Antonino Prostamo | b. 1904 | Briatico | Family |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | b. 1907 | Briatico | Family |
| Alfonso Prostamo | b. 1918 | Briatico | Family |
| Caterina Prostamo | b. 1920 | Briatico | Family |
| Alfonso Prostamo | b. 1926 | Buenos Aires | Family |
| Mattea Prostamo | b. 1926 | Buenos Aires | Documented |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | b. 1927 | Briatico | Family |
| Alfonso Prostamo | b. 1928 | Briatico | Family |
| Domenica Prostamo ancestor | 1928 – 2010 | Briatico | Documented |
| Mattea Prostamo | b. 1928 | Buenos Aires | Family |
| Domenico Prostamo | b. 1930 | Briatico | Family |
| Maria G Prostamo | b. 1930 | Buenos Aires | Family |
| Antonio Giacomo Prostamo | b. 1934 | Briatico | Family |
| Mattea Prostamo | b. 1934 | Briatico | Family |
| Francesco Prostamo | b. 1935 | Briatico | Family |
| Alfonso Prostamo | 1936 – 1980 | Briatico | Family |
| Concetta Prostamo | b. 1936 | Briatico | Family |
| Giovanna Prostamo | b. 1938 | Briatico | Family |
| Francesca Prostamo | b. 1945 | Briatico | Documented |
8 names here are borne by more than one person and the archive does not decide which is which: Antonino Prostamo (7), Alfonso Prostamo (5), Domenico Prostamo (4), Mattea Prostamo (4), Giuseppe Prostamo (3), Giovanna Prostamo (2), Nicola Prostamo (2), Pasquale Prostamo (2). Every name →
What rests on a record and what rests on the tree
8 of the 51 have at least one record read for them (Documented); the other 43are known only from the family tree this archive was built from (Family), which cites little and is not evidence. Of the 151 parent, child and marriage links that touch these people, 6 are proved by a register or an index this archive has read; the other 145 come from the tree alone. 4 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
- Above Franco Antonino Prostamo, born about 1697
- The Buenos Aires Prostamo
On the work list
- The nine unnamed crossings, starting with Domenica Prostamo in March 1951 (next)
- Joseph Polistena's WWII draft card, and CEMLA for the Buenos Aires Prostamo (next)
- BRIATICO — what would it actually take to prove the 1697 Prostamo? (next)
- PIZZO 1823–1860 — Maria Fragalà's death, and the Prostamo who stayed (running)
- The spine still calls Antonino Prostamo untested, and additions.json says he is proved (done)
- Two Prostamo in Western Australia in the First World War (next)
9 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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