Epifanio "Frank Fauney" D'Angelo (Bonanno)

[B.]

Shouldn't be much of a surprise at this point given the same names come up again and again in CDG, but Frank Fauney's paternal grandmother was an Asaro. I mentioned earlier that Fauney's father Giacomo arrived to his own father Epifanio who was living right by Girolamo Asaro's saloon in Little Italy.

[B.]

Another bit of info related to the original post:

- The Antonino Galante who lived next door to the D'Angelos in the East Village and Brooklyn was Frank Fauney's brother-in-law in addition to being a likely maternal cousin through the Spadaro name. Galante married Fauney's sister. Another brother of Antonino Galante also married a Spadaro relative so I think these were all cousin marriages. This brother lived in Boston where there was a Castellammarese/Trapanese community that had some connections to the Bonannos and Philadelphia.

- Antonino had another brother named Leonardo Galante. He was the same age as the Leonardo Galante who was a Philadelphia member and Salvatore Sabella's bro-in-law but I don't have enough info to confirm/deny this Leonardo Galante ever left NYC. I doubt it's the same guy.

- If someone can find a list of Carmine Galante's father Vincenzo's siblings let me know. Antonino Galante's father was named Giacomo and from the same generation as Vincenzo Galante. It's a common surname in CDG but the shared neighborhood, longshoreman jobs, and Bonanno ties up the probability of relation.

[thekiduknow]

Did some more digging on Anthony Spadaro and Frank D'Angelo, and found out they were cousins. Anthony's father and Frank's mother were siblings.

[B.]

Glad you could confirm it. Both were from a young generation (born 1914 and 1920) so I'd expect older relatives in the clan were involved.

[stevan tod]

Is this maybe the father Giacomo?