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From: "Tina Pearce" <>
Subject: Re: [ANGLO-ITALIAN] "Villa"
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:37:11 +0900
References: <387304.21193.qm@web24404.mail.ird.yahoo.com><C8DEA702F2854B2C9A3C1F348DBCA135@Hilary>


Morning Hille
Do you have them in 1891 census at all?
If not let me know and I'll send details.
Christoph is 43, wife Emily, children, in laws & lodgers.

Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hille Cook" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ANGLO-ITALIAN] "Villa"


>I wonder please if anyone can suggest any more Italian variations of
> Christoff/ Christoph that might make sense as phonetic spellings? My
> Italian great-great grandfather was in 1881 census (mispelled presumably!)
> as "Xuar " i.e., (Christ)opher.. then he's on marriage certificates as
> Christoff ... his father was a Francesco Villa (seen on Christoff's
> marriage
> certificate) but apart from working out that they were from northern Italy
> (vaguely Parma area) we're at a loss to know how or where to search more
> deeply or productively?
>
> We've sort of hit the buffers - can't even find a death record for either
> of
> them (nothing in the national burial index), so assuming they probably
> ended
> up in paupers graves here in UK.
> Many thanks and best wishes
> Hille
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lino colosso" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [ANGLO-ITALIAN] Benetti
>
>
>> Hi Jeanette
>> May i suggest you try going to .Family Search. the mormon site.to start
>> just type in Benetti no christian name this throws up all their info on
>> people named Benetti in Italy way back.but if you
>> labour through the list and find a christian name that suites .you can
>> then go back into search and in put christian name and then surname
>> Benetti.It worked for me was looking for a Giovanni Colosso no luck ! But
>> after just Putting in Colosso and search I found Him
>> as gioan Colosso. Its worth a try and costs nothing .
>> Regards Lino
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 19/1/09,
>> <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> From: <>
>> Subject: Re: [ANGLO-ITALIAN] Benetti
>> To:
>> Date: Monday, 19 January, 2009, 3:01 PM
>>
>> Colin, thank you for the help. I have followed both lines of advice.
>> The
>> first showed Benetti seems to be prevalent across a huge area of Italy.
>> The
>> 2nd was so interesting and I'm not sure whether or not it could be a
>> family
>>
>> member, although born too late to be his Gt Grandfather. His grandfather
>> was born 1883 in Italy. Can I ask for some education please - How did
>> you
>> get to this page at TNA?
>> Jeanette
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin Moretti" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 1:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ANGLO-ITALIAN] Benetti
>>
>>
>>> Hello Jeanette
>>>
>>> There's this, it may be site you are referring to:
>>> http://gens.labo.net/en/cognomi/genera.html
>>> It just gives a surname distribution in Italy, type the name in the
>>> "Cognome" box
>>>
>>> Do you think that this document at TNA, Kew might be relevant?
>>>
>> http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=7998166&CATLN=6&Highlight=%2CBENETTI&accessmethod=0
>>>
>>> Colin Moretti
>>> I'm a member of the Anglo-Italian Family History Society
>>> www.anglo-italianfhs.org.uk
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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