by B. » Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:49 am
antimafia wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:03 pm
Unless I've made a mistake in my "calcuations," I'm fairly certain that Rosario Arcuri was the uncle of the Montreal-area-based Domenico Arcuri who died in Florida in 2012.
I hadn't ever checked Rosario Arcuri's ancestry till this evening and I did so because you had written that his mother was a Guaragna. Here's a link to a death record for Arcuri on FamilySearch.org:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WGC-DGQ
Here's a link to an Evernote item of mine that shows cemetery entries for decedents at Le repos Saint-François d'Assise with the surname
Arcuri on June 22, 2016, the day I captured the information via Evernote:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/sh/ ... 8dd30d705b
So Rosario Arcuri and Filippa Arcuri, the mother of the aforementioned Domenico Arcuri, were siblings--Rosario and Filippa's mother was Giovanna Guaragna, and their father was a Giacinto Arcuri.
The Domenico Arcuri born in 1900 is the father of Giuseppe Arcuri of New York, the aformentioned Domenico Arcuri of,the Montreal area, and Giacinto Arcuri of the Montreal area (not to be confused with the still-living Giacinto Arcuri of Toronto). There is other interesting information in the cemetery entries--for example, the maternal grandmother of the aforementioned Domenico Arcuri of the Montreal area was an Alfano (first name: Giovanna), and you'll recall that this Arcuri's wife, Carmela Alfano, is believed to be related to the deceased Nicolino (Nick) Alfano of the New York Bonannos (Is Carmela the sister or niece of Nick? I thought the former but I'm not sure anymore, especially because of the presumably large age difference between Nicolino and Carmela).
If Rosario Arcuri was indeed the killer or one of the killers of Vito Rizzuto Sr., then, yes, it's crazy to think that the uncle of the Domenico Arcuri who died in 2012 killed or helped kill Nick Rizzuto Sr.'s father (Vito Rizzuto's grandfather).
Not to mention if Calogero Renda was somehow involved in the murder of Rosario Arcuri in retaliation for his brother-in-law's murder. There could be even more layers to this story. Not that today's Arcuris necessarily held a grudge for some great uncle's murder, but it could be an indication that the Arcuri and Rizzuto/Rendas weren't big fans of each other throughout the years.
Just proves yet again that being "paesani" doesn't count for as much as you'd think. It's how these guys network and it's who they associate/congregate with, but there are so many examples of these feuds and killings between townsmen even after immigrating. Familiarity breeds contempt.
So Giacinto Arcuri's (b.1852) mother Anna Alfano married a Domenico Arcuri, and the grandmother of the Montreal Domenico Arcuri was a Giovanna Alfano. Do you think Giovanna and Anna Alfano are the same woman, with Anna being the nickname? Either way, there is at least one, possibly two, historical relationships between Arcuris and the last name Alfano, then there is Nick Alfano's sister and niece both marrying into the Arcuri family. Even though Nick Alfano was from Racalmuto it may be worth looking into whether he was related to Giovanna/Anna Alfano, as people can move around.
Because Vito Rizzuto and Calogero Renda associated with Alfano doesn't necessarily mean they were Bonannos, but here is how I see it:
- According to info from JD, Rizzuto and Renda associated with longtime Bonanno leader Nick Alfano.
- Rizzuto, Renda, and R.Arcuri's Bronx contemporary from Cattolica, Nick Buttafuoco, was made with the Bonannos under Alfano, indicating that the other three may have been associated/made with the Bonannos as well.
- Rizzuto's son, grandson, and other relatives all ended up as Bonanno members in Montreal. Renda's son and other relatives (intertwined with Rizzuto obviously) were also allegedly Bonanno members.
- Rosario Arcuri's possible relatives all ended up as Bonanno members in both the US and Canada.
- Calogero Renda himself may have been a Bonanno member in Montreal after moving there; he was at least associated with them.
- Other Cattolica Eracleans like LoPresti, Bronx-based Sciascia, and allegedly others were made into the Bonanno family.
- Bronx-based Bonanno member Manny Guaragna's father came from Cattolica. Never seen any indications that Giovanni Guaragna was a member, but as we've talked about the Guaragnas were related somewhere down the line to other Cattolica mobsters.
It seems to me that Cattolica Eraclea somehow got intertwined with the Bonanno family early on, with most examples of "off the boat" Sicilians from Cattolica ending up associates/made under the Bonanno banner in both the Bronx and Canada over a number of generations. This is interesting too because not only are the Bonannos rarely associated with the Agrigento region, but they also have had a relatively thin presence in the Bronx over the years. It's not like these guys happened to be operating in Williamsburg or Middle Village and got absorbed by the Bonanno family's dominance there -- they must have had a very specific connection that originally brought them into the Bonanno fold.
Since Alfano and a couple or more members of his crew were from Agrigento and had a presence in New Jersey, among other places, it makes me wonder if there are ties to the crew run by Angelo Salvo which had members from Agrigento and a presence in Jersey as well.
Does anyone know where Anthony Crisci and John Petrone's parents were from? Petrone was born in 1896 but I believe it was in the US. He was an early Bonanno Bronx member but I'm not sure what crew and am wondering if he could fit in somewhere here as well. Crisci was an Alfano crew member I believe, so also curious about his origins.
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Unless I've made a mistake in my "calcuations," I'm fairly certain that Rosario Arcuri was the uncle of the Montreal-area-based Domenico Arcuri who died in Florida in 2012.
I hadn't ever checked Rosario Arcuri's ancestry till this evening and I did so because you had written that his mother was a Guaragna. Here's a link to a death record for Arcuri on FamilySearch.org:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WGC-DGQ
Here's a link to an Evernote item of mine that shows cemetery entries for decedents at Le repos Saint-François d'Assise with the surname [i]Arcuri[/i] on June 22, 2016, the day I captured the information via Evernote:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s229/sh/07658a28-71d9-4c8f-9edf-8ca8517490b0/f1422f2041daea6e5dac348dd30d705b
So Rosario Arcuri and Filippa Arcuri, the mother of the aforementioned Domenico Arcuri, were siblings--Rosario and Filippa's mother was Giovanna Guaragna, and their father was a Giacinto Arcuri.
The Domenico Arcuri born in 1900 is the father of Giuseppe Arcuri of New York, the aformentioned Domenico Arcuri of,the Montreal area, and Giacinto Arcuri of the Montreal area (not to be confused with the still-living Giacinto Arcuri of Toronto). There is other interesting information in the cemetery entries--for example, the maternal grandmother of the aforementioned Domenico Arcuri of the Montreal area was an Alfano (first name: Giovanna), and you'll recall that this Arcuri's wife, Carmela Alfano, is believed to be related to the deceased Nicolino (Nick) Alfano of the New York Bonannos (Is Carmela the sister or niece of Nick? I thought the former but I'm not sure anymore, especially because of the presumably large age difference between Nicolino and Carmela).
If Rosario Arcuri was indeed the killer or one of the killers of Vito Rizzuto Sr., then, yes, it's crazy to think that the uncle of the Domenico Arcuri who died in 2012 killed or helped kill Nick Rizzuto Sr.'s father (Vito Rizzuto's grandfather).
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Not to mention if Calogero Renda was somehow involved in the murder of Rosario Arcuri in retaliation for his brother-in-law's murder. There could be even more layers to this story. Not that today's Arcuris necessarily held a grudge for some great uncle's murder, but it could be an indication that the Arcuri and Rizzuto/Rendas weren't big fans of each other throughout the years.
Just proves yet again that being "paesani" doesn't count for as much as you'd think. It's how these guys network and it's who they associate/congregate with, but there are so many examples of these feuds and killings between townsmen even after immigrating. Familiarity breeds contempt.
So Giacinto Arcuri's (b.1852) mother Anna Alfano married a Domenico Arcuri, and the grandmother of the Montreal Domenico Arcuri was a Giovanna Alfano. Do you think Giovanna and Anna Alfano are the same woman, with Anna being the nickname? Either way, there is at least one, possibly two, historical relationships between Arcuris and the last name Alfano, then there is Nick Alfano's sister and niece both marrying into the Arcuri family. Even though Nick Alfano was from Racalmuto it may be worth looking into whether he was related to Giovanna/Anna Alfano, as people can move around.
Because Vito Rizzuto and Calogero Renda associated with Alfano doesn't necessarily mean they were Bonannos, but here is how I see it:
- According to info from JD, Rizzuto and Renda associated with longtime Bonanno leader Nick Alfano.
- Rizzuto, Renda, and R.Arcuri's Bronx contemporary from Cattolica, Nick Buttafuoco, was made with the Bonannos under Alfano, indicating that the other three may have been associated/made with the Bonannos as well.
- Rizzuto's son, grandson, and other relatives all ended up as Bonanno members in Montreal. Renda's son and other relatives (intertwined with Rizzuto obviously) were also allegedly Bonanno members.
- Rosario Arcuri's possible relatives all ended up as Bonanno members in both the US and Canada.
- Calogero Renda himself may have been a Bonanno member in Montreal after moving there; he was at least associated with them.
- Other Cattolica Eracleans like LoPresti, Bronx-based Sciascia, and allegedly others were made into the Bonanno family.
- Bronx-based Bonanno member Manny Guaragna's father came from Cattolica. Never seen any indications that Giovanni Guaragna was a member, but as we've talked about the Guaragnas were related somewhere down the line to other Cattolica mobsters.
It seems to me that Cattolica Eraclea somehow got intertwined with the Bonanno family early on, with most examples of "off the boat" Sicilians from Cattolica ending up associates/made under the Bonanno banner in both the Bronx and Canada over a number of generations. This is interesting too because not only are the Bonannos rarely associated with the Agrigento region, but they also have had a relatively thin presence in the Bronx over the years. It's not like these guys happened to be operating in Williamsburg or Middle Village and got absorbed by the Bonanno family's dominance there -- they must have had a very specific connection that originally brought them into the Bonanno fold.
Since Alfano and a couple or more members of his crew were from Agrigento and had a presence in New Jersey, among other places, it makes me wonder if there are ties to the crew run by Angelo Salvo which had members from Agrigento and a presence in Jersey as well.
Does anyone know where Anthony Crisci and John Petrone's parents were from? Petrone was born in 1896 but I believe it was in the US. He was an early Bonanno Bronx member but I'm not sure what crew and am wondering if he could fit in somewhere here as well. Crisci was an Alfano crew member I believe, so also curious about his origins.