by Antiliar » Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:13 am
Antiliar wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2020 4:53 pm
Vito Genovese's parents, Felice and Nunziella/Nunziata (Nancy) Genovese, are both from Campania. Felice came from Tufino, Napoli, Campania, and his wife from Ricigliano, Salerno, Campania.
According to a family tree on Ancestry.com, Felice Genovese's parents were Guglielmo Genovese and Maria Grazia Anna Dislafani [probably Sclafani], and they were from Alia, not far from Lercara Friddi in the province of Palermo (the sources cited confirm this). Nunziella Genovese's parents (her maiden name was also Genovese, so they may have been related to her husband's parents) were Vito Genovese and Giovanina Saroppa (?). So the New York boss Vito Genovese did have at least 50% Sicilian ancestry.
As for the Morescos, it looks like they came from Genoa. On Louis Moresco's gravestone it says he was born in "Genoa, Città Metropolitana di Genova, Liguria, Italy." A Stefano Moresco who was born around 1829 was related and arrived in 1892 on the Werra, and the manifest says he's from Genoa. He could have been Paolo Moresco's (Victoria Colosimo's father) father or uncle. I know there's a Big Jim Colosimo family tree on Ancestry.com that says the Morescos came from Colosimi, but if you check the sources you'll see that none of them say that.
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Vito Genovese's parents, Felice and Nunziella/Nunziata (Nancy) Genovese, are both from Campania. Felice came from Tufino, Napoli, Campania, and his wife from Ricigliano, Salerno, Campania.
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According to a family tree on Ancestry.com, Felice Genovese's parents were Guglielmo Genovese and Maria Grazia Anna Dislafani [probably Sclafani], and they were from Alia, not far from Lercara Friddi in the province of Palermo (the sources cited confirm this). Nunziella Genovese's parents (her maiden name was also Genovese, so they may have been related to her husband's parents) were Vito Genovese and Giovanina Saroppa (?). So the New York boss Vito Genovese did have at least 50% Sicilian ancestry.
As for the Morescos, it looks like they came from Genoa. On Louis Moresco's gravestone it says he was born in "Genoa, Città Metropolitana di Genova, Liguria, Italy." A Stefano Moresco who was born around 1829 was related and arrived in 1892 on the Werra, and the manifest says he's from Genoa. He could have been Paolo Moresco's (Victoria Colosimo's father) father or uncle. I know there's a Big Jim Colosimo family tree on Ancestry.com that says the Morescos came from Colosimi, but if you check the sources you'll see that none of them say that.