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From: Daphne Dashfield <>
Subject: [Anglo-Italian] Re: GUTTULA - Family Name
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:34:06 +1300
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Hi Geoff

An afterthought. Other avenues to pursue are:

1. If naturalised, then the naturalization registers (National Archives).

2. If there are no GUTTULA in Italy at present, was he a protestant (Waldensian?) from e.g. Switzerland rather than Italy. Someone
on the list may know more about Waldensians??

3. There is one "Giuseppe LA GUTTULA" I found in familysearch.org (Ancestral file so not necessarily reliable). b 03 JAN 1856
Mezzojuso,Termini,Palermo, , Sicilia Region, Italy. Father was La GATTULA.
Sicily may be a possibility for your Giuseppe's origins.

My family has a rare surname, GHIRARDANI, but it still exists in Italy today (but not with some of the 17 or so inventive spellings
used in UK records since 1851). If I could not find a surname in the phone directory I would seriously question the spelling and
generate other possibilities.

NB GUTTULA as a word can be found searching with Google, especially in taxonomies. It seems there is an author from Hydrabad with
the surname GUTTULA! (Guttula Srinivasrao, search on www.archive.org/texts/)

Happy hunting!

Daphne Dashfield


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