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Subject: [OHMAHONI] Re: Brier Hill Ohio
Date: 4 Oct 2002 09:02:06 -0600


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Surnames: Martone, Iannone, Lauretano
Classification: Query

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Hi Dave ~

Thanks so much for responding.

Someone on this site told me that Division Street in Brier Hill has been made into a highway and all the housing was torn down. I’m assuming they are correct, so don’t make a special trip there. If one day you should be in the area and have time to take a look, that would be great, but otherwise, please don’t go out of your way. The person who told me about it is no doubt correct.

I have a little info on the Martones, though not a lot, I came ‘across them’ quite by accident. I found the ship’s manifest (1909) for my great-grandfather Matteo Iannone. On it he stated he was being sponsored by his brother-in-law Salvatore Martone at 128 Division Street Brier Hill. I had no idea he even had a sister, much less a brother-in-law!

>From there I did a little research on Salvatore Martone and found a manifest for him. On he arrived Aug 6, 1907 and stated his sponsor was his uncle Rocco Puaurello (note: the writing is nearly illegible, so this spelling obviously is wrong) at 128 Division Street. Salvatore came with his wife Raffaela Saluieri (also difficult to read, so this spelling is probably incorrect). They came with 3 daughters, Angela Martone age 18 (your great grandmother?), Severina age 17, and Giovanna (? handwriting) age 7. Also traveling with them were 2 other men, Antonio Marlucci and Giuseppe Fureo. The Martone family (as well as the 2 men traveling with them) came from the town of Sessa Aurunca in the Province of Caserta which is outside of Naples. I’m thinking this Angela Martone may be your great-grandmother (if she was 18 at the time of her arrival) or if not, perhaps she is a cousin of your great grandmother (Italians were REAL big on naming each of the children who had children!
after the grandparents, so there could be more than one person in a town with the exact same name. For instance, your eldest son would name his son after you and your younger son would do the same. Hence, the possibility of more than one Angela Martone.)

I hope I’m not confusing you! Go to www.ellisislandrecords.org and search:
Salvatore Martone
Name of Town: Sessa Aurimea, Caserta (note they spelled it wrong!)
Year of arrival: 1907
Age on arrival: 42

You can take a look at the manifest yourself and perhaps be able to read the last names better than I was able to. (And ps - if these are your relatives, don’t send for the copies @ $25, I have one at home I could mail to you.)

The only other thing I know about the Martones, is that someone in the Martone family wanted my great-grandfather to agree to let his 15 year old daughter Nunziata marry an elderly Martone relative. Not an unusual practice in those days, though in this case, Nunziata got extremely upset about it and cried and cried for weeks on end until finally my great-grandfather refused, causing a bit of a rift between the 2 families. Shortly thereafter, Nunziata contracted influenza and died somewhere between the ages of 15 and 19. This was so unbearable to my great-grandparents that they moved the family from Brier Hill to NJ to “start over”. (Good thing too or I would never have been born!). As far as I know, they never saw the Martones again.

See…I don’t really have much information on the Martones other than what I’ve just told you. I have written to the Stato di Civile in Sessa Aurunca to find out the names of the siblings of my great-grandfather as well as his parents. I’m hoping this info leads me to the sister that was married to Salvatore Martone. If I find out anything more on the Martones, I will certainly let you know about it. Ok?

I do have a question for you…I mentioned my great-aunt Nunizata died there in Ohio in probably 1914-1919. So far I’ve been unsuccessful with the Dept of Vital Statistics and Ohio Historical Society in finding her death or burial records. I've also contacted St Anthony’s RC Church, Tod Homestead Cemetery, and Churchill Cemetery for the death records, but so far none of them can locate the records. Do you by any chance know of any other cemetery or Catholic Church in the Brier Hill area that I may have missed? I’ve sort of hit a brick wall in locating any info on Nunziata.

Again, thanks so much for your response. If there’s anything I can help you with in your search, let me know.

Teressa



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