Eline2015 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:54 am
About Fischettis. Were they really related to Capone?
I have never found any evidence to support that there was a relation, whether by blood or marriage.
Capone’s parents, Gabriele Capone and Teresa Raiola, were natives of Angri, Salerno. The Fischettis’ parents, Nicola Fuschetto and Maria Lemmo, were natives of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi and Lioni, Avellino. Presumably, the two families had known each other for some years, however, as they lived on opposite sides of the same block of buildings in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. It is likely that they called each other “cugini” in the way that many Italians do as a type of fictive kinship.
To underscore how close to each other they lived, with the Capones at 21 Garfield and the Fischettis at 584 Carroll (between 4th & 5th Aves):
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Eline2015 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:54 am
About Fischettis. Were they really related to Capone?
I have never found any evidence to support that there was a relation, whether by blood or marriage.
Capone’s parents, Gabriele Capone and Teresa Raiola, were natives of Angri, Salerno. The Fischettis’ parents, Nicola Fuschetto and Maria Lemmo, were natives of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi and Lioni, Avellino. Presumably, the two families had known each other for some years, however, as they lived on opposite sides of the same block of buildings in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. It is likely that they called each other “cugini” in the way that many Italians do as a type of fictive kinship.
To underscore how close to each other they lived, with the Capones at 21 Garfield and the Fischettis at 584 Carroll (between 4th & 5th Aves):
Nitto's family and the Capones both came from Angri in Salerno. While I didn't see an Nitto's in the Capone family tree and vice versa, it's possible there's a connection through marriage or going back multiple generations. According to a Capone relative they two families knew each other in Angri and were some sort of cousins, but nothing definitive. Of course it's also possible that they were simply compaesani who referred to each other as cugini.
