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From: Margie Papa <>
Subject: Re: Great Grandmother's maiden name
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:16:11 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <aijjfuo16ofs6gvbp2qjj0mk8vs2055t9q@4ax.com>


I wrote what I was thinking-not what anyone would
understand obviously....I MEANT that they don't
CALL it a 'maiden' name....and YES the name a woman
is born with in Italy is her L E G A L name
throughout her lifetime.


--- JF <> wrote:
> On 31 May 2002 17:29:40 -0600,
> (Margie Papa)
> wrote:
>
Not only
> did
> >it have her 'birth' name--Italians and many
> other
> >nationalities don't have maiden names -that is
> an
> >american thing---but it had the names of her
> >parents in Italy!!
>
> I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense!
> Why wouldn't women have a maiden (surname) name?
>
> Regards
> JF
>
> P.S.
> In Italy women get to keep their maiden name
> throughout their married life!
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >--- Vince <>
> wrote:
> >> I am having a problem in trying to find out my
> >> great grand mother's maiden
> >> name.
> >> On her son's birth certificate it is recorded
> as
> >> Gottimarty but on another
> >> certificate it is recorded as Cadamatia.
> Bearing
> >> in mind the fact that she
> >> could not read or write I imagine that the
> >> English registrar wrote down what
> >> he thought he heard when confronted with an
> >> unusual name in a thick Italian
> >> accent.
> >> I have tried researching these names with no
> >> success.
> >> Can anybody make any suggestion to what her
> name
> >> might of been.
> >> The only other information I have is that she
> may
> >> of came from the Genoa
> >> region of Italy.
> >>
> >> Many thanks
> >> Vince
> >>
> >>
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