Comments on: ²ÝÁñÉçÇø during the 19th Century /life-italy-during-19th-century/ ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, Real Estate in Italy, Move to Italy Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Maddy /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-10917 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:25:27 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-10917 hi all of your stories sound interesting i need help with a project im working on about Italy does anyone know anything about the enlightenment of Italy i know im a year late

]]> By: Cynthia Ribet /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-10457 Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:33:01 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-10457 I have a journal written by an ancestor in 1786 -1830ish. It is in French and Italian. I want very badly to have it translated. The ancestor was a Waldensian and named Ribetto (which morphed into Ribet).
Any suggestions?

]]> By: Phillip Guascoine /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-9598 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:56:25 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-9598 Yes, the original spelling of our name was GUASCONI, according to Giovanni’s marriage certificate his father, Erminigildo was a farmer. Do you know if it is any easier to get birth certificates in Italy now? and where would I start as I don’t speak the language. All I have to go on is his parents names and that he was born in Genoa Piedmont. Pretty vague I know.

]]> By: Katty /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-9589 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:41:28 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-9589 In reply to Phillip Guascoine.

Hello Phillip, no Guascoine doesn’t sound Italian, it must be French. Probably because of the links with France that you mention.

]]> By: Phillip Guascoine /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-9585 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:59:02 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-9585 I am told that the spelling of our surname is also French. My Great Great Grandfather, Giovanni Battista Guasconi migrated to Australia in 1856. He married an Irish girl in 1869. On his marriage certificate it says he was born in Genoa Piedmont. The French did rule that part of Italy in earlier times. From what I can read there were crop failures and a lot of the northern Italian residents used to travel over the border into Switzerland but that was stopped with the closing of the border so there was no income. Also trade within the states on Italy was very low.

]]> By: Merrian Antonini Bianculli /life-italy-during-19th-century/#comment-8471 Fri, 11 Oct 2019 18:35:55 +0000 http://prod.lifeinitaly.com/2018/05/14/life-in-italy-during-the-19th-century/#comment-8471 I am curious why my family has French DNA and no Italian. My family came from Castiglione Chiavarese in Liguria Genoa. I know the French took that area at one time. My family were farmers. My grandfather left Italy in 1885. My grandmother’s family was already in California. I read that there was a blight in the vineyards at that time. I am wondering if they left because they were of French descent? Maybe they left because their crops were failing? Our name is Antonini, so if we are French that is puzzling.

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