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From: "Vincent E. Summers" <>
Subject: Surname CATTANEA Migration to France? Why???
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:24:31 -0400


Dear Folks,

I find an Anthony CATTANEO in Pennsylvania, the emigrant to the US of
a line of CATTANEAs. Now I do not know why all his children, and all
of his grandchildren, on down, are CATTANEA. Maybe the appearance of
the name CATTANEO is a typo. But I do not think so. Somewhere along
the way, there was a change.

In the Ancestry.com telephone listings for CATTANEA, 7 were from
France, and 32 from Italy.

I do not know which ours was from. But my question is: Did the 7
in the phone books descend from a line in France that originally
came from Italy? And what would cause a migration to France, when
there seems to be no other migrations. What was special, apparently
in the early to mid 1800's about going from Italy to France? Surely
it was no coincidence. Was there some historical event or something
that would have encouraged this? Was there no port to the US from
Italy at that time, but one was especially convenient to reach in
France?

Thanks,
Vince Summers

cc: Bob Cattanea

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