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From: "Anne Rushton" <>
Subject: RE: [Anglo-Italian] Anglo Italian FHS John/Jean/Joas
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:35:56 -0000
In-Reply-To: <12c.56678b78.2f2fb4fe@aol.com>
That's a very interesting observation.
Our ancestor Alfonso Galzini's wedding Certificate cannot be found
either though family legend has it that they married at St James'
Piccadilly.
Cannot find a reference through the bride's maiden name either.
We think it might be that they went back to Venice to marry and had a
blessing here, but have not checked that. They had a dinner service made
for them in their initials from the ceramic factory GIORNO, but the
dates are wrong - this mark ios too late for a 1860's wedding. And their
name Galzini does not appear anywhere in Venice or Italy .....
Anne Rushton
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Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] Anglo Italian FHS John/Jean/Joas
I've just had an idea why an Italian may have changed his name on his
wedding certificate. My grandfather was Antonio Arturo Davide at birth
and he used
variations of these names in Italian and English throughout his life.
I
understand that he had acted as an acolyte in Milan Cathedral
(obviously before
he was 12 as he then went to Paris to work) and something happened
there
which turned him off religion. He was married in a Church of England
church
near Birmingham and this is the only time he used the name John Arthur.
He
never used John again to my knowledge. Also I wonder if these young
men were
dodging the Italian military service? Jasmine
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