Emanuele Catone
Between the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, a series of families came to Buccino for various reasons, who entered more or less permanently in the group of Buccino families, from which many of the families tended to disappear in the same period “historical” of the country. Some of the families that arrived in that period only went through the history of Buccino for a few generations, others are still very present in the community.
The extensive historical-genealogical research that I have been conducting for some time on these families of more recent residence in Buccino, so far it has allowed me to draw up some family trees (which will be published in the page dedicated to them on this site) and to investigate the events of some families, often thanks to the availability of the heirs and the photos of the Buccino archive in history. I have already briefly published some notes on families Mastursi, on Sacco emigrated to Brazil and its Weather in Pucciariello-Morriello emigrated to Argentina. I will shortly publish other insights on the Guadagni and Caravoglia. In this case, instead, we dedicate our attention to the Lardieri, one of the families recently moved to Buccino, who was among the many who then moved to America in Altoona (Pennsylvania), where in the early twentieth century a large group of Buccinesi gathered, whose heirs, In many cases, they still have direct relationships with their home community and their Buccinese relatives.
The Lardieri family was originally from Limit (Avellino). From the genealogical data we know that he settled in Buccino in 1876, year in which two brothers, Francesco Maria and Nicola, son of Pasquathe and Raffaela Del Buono, both married in Buccino.
Nicola Maria ewas born in Teora the 2.12.1856 and practiced the profession of carriolante (= laborer, carrettiere). Il 3.1.1876 groom Francesca Iuorio, daughter by Vincenzo and Rosa Solitro and from their marriage the twins Vincenzo and Antonio were born, unfortunately both died after a few days of their birth1.
Francesco Lardieri, He was born in Teora the 28.3.1848 e fu country guard, cellerer e finally rail porter. Il 16.9.1876 married the Bucinese Giovannina Daniele, daughter dthe ramaio Antonio e of Maria Michela Murano, from which he had Carmela, Immaculate, Pasquale, Lucia, Vincenzo e Donato2. In second wedding, the 18.12.1897 then married another Buccinese, Carmela Avena, daughter from Vitantonio and Elisabetta Daniele. A 55 years, together with the second moglie and figlio DonatO, decided to leave for America, where the children Lucia and Vincenzo had already moved the previous year. Embarked in Naples sthethe ship "Germany" the 3 marzo 1904, they he camero a New York thirteen days later and from there they moved to Altoona, where the sons and son-in-law had settled. Morì nin the same city the 20 settembre 1916, as attested by your family grave in the locale Calvary Cemetery.
Carmela, the eldest son of Francesco and Giovannina, was born in Buccino on 20.12.1877 e il 27 January 1895 groom the manovale ferroviario Luigi SantO Boccuti, originating from droppezforyou (CS), where was it nato the 25.2.1871. From their marriage it was born Pasqualino, born in Buccino the 29.10.1902, than in 1930 he would marry (but not in Buccino) Antonetta Laviola.
Immaculate, the daughter secondogenita, nata a Whelk the 7.2.1880 and baptized inthe same day in the church of S. Giovanni Gerosolimitano, he married a countryman of his brother-in-law Luigi Santo. Il 12 December 1901, indeed, went to wife a Luigi Tassitano, mender (and then overseer) railway, also originally from Calopezzati, where he was born the 23 February 1880 da Antonio, also the railway cantoniere, and yeswith filatrice Maria Carolina Castello, originating respectively from Corigliano Calabro and Rossano Calabro. From the marriage of Immacolata and Luigi three children were born in Buccino: Francesco, Antonio (Buccino 1903 – Roma 1980) e Donata (n. 6.11.1904), to which were added Clelia (1908-1994) and Cyrus, born after their transfer from Buccino.
Francesco Tassitano, the firstborn, born in Buccino the 24 marzo 1906, further tied his family to Buccino by marrying, the 3 October 1931, the Buccinese Flora D’Acunto. Flora was born in Buccino on 6.7.1910 in his home in Via S. Cross alley IV by coppersmith Donato (of the late Bonaventure), and by Carlotta Volpe (Flora's brothers were Bonaventura and Amedeo, crowded in the years 50 with his father Donato in the shop under lparrot home in via Pescara). The Tassitano-D’Acunto family, for the needs of their work in the Railways, he moved first to Salerno and then to Rome, where their three children would be born: Luigi (Gino), Mary Immaculate and Immaculate.
Pasquale was born in Buccino the 26.5.1882. Stagnino and calderaio, sput down the 9.12.1906 ad Aquilonia (OF) Teresa De Lorenzo, daughter of Giovanni and Mariantonia Caputo, from which would have had 15 figli. Nthe February 1909, together with his wife and daughter Giovanna, embarked for America on the "Louisiana" ship e moved ad Altoona. Together with his brother-in-law Angelo Pucciariello he was one of the founders of the Buccinese Society, the mutual aid society founded by the Buccinesi in 1910 in the American town, where mori the 24.3.1948 e fu buried. Pasquale Lardieri's obituary, released Thursday 25 marzo 1948 dall’Altoona Tribune (p. 12), reveals to us that at the time of death he had 19 nephews.
Lucia, onta a Buccino the 17.5.1884, emigrò in America in 1903: partì from Naples with the ship “Marco Minghettos” the 30 March of that year it's atarrived in New York on 16 April. Her brother was with her Vincenzo and yes stableirono ad Altoona, where toIt was up uncle Nicola Fernicola. Lucia the 24.10.1903 ad Altoona groom another Buccinese, Angelo Weather in Pucciariello (whose surname in the USA was crippled in Weather in Pucciarella) more than twenty years older (he was born in Buccino the 24.4.1862 da Giuseppe and GelsOmina Sciarrillo), that era emigrated in America in the 1893. Lucia ed il husband, according to the censiminto del 1930, he hadro 10 figli. Angelo Pucciariello she died own in 1930, while Lucia died ad Altoona forty years later, the 29 December 1970.
Vincenzo, born in Buccino on 20.8.1886, he emigrated to Altoona in 1903 together with her sister. The 18 April of the following year he married in Pennsylvania the Buccinese Agnese Nitto, three years older (in fact she was born on 14.9.1883 by Francesco, shoemaker, e Carmela Altieri) and some of their children were born in Altoona. At a certain point, But (but we don't know when), Vincenzo and his wife returned to Italy, where they both died in Buccino in 1960, Vincenzo the 13 marzo and his wife Agnese November 8. Gives Giovanni, uno of their children born in America, today the only heirs of the Lardieri descend still present in Buccino.
I thank Francesca Di Leo and Paola Cornacchiola for the news and photos they provided.
Note
- The twins were born on 27 July. Vincenzo, the firstborn, died on 5 August while his brother Antonio died four days later. At the time of their birth the father had been in the arms for seven months and therefore, almost certainly, he never saw them.
- Another son, Giuseppe died at an early age (Buccino 9.4.1889-15.9.1891).
