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61 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, 1871, record
9, folios 176-177. The officiating priest was Antonio Hernández,
and the witnesses Juan Bautista Vicini and Concepción Bona (her
sister).
62 Obituary for Aurelio Ortori in the Listín Diario newspaper on
October 22, 1935.
63 Decree Number 723 of April 20, 1933.
64 He granted a will on August 6, 1864, at his house on the cor-
ner of Calle de Los Mártires and Calle de La Merced, a native of
Rome, Italy, a doctor of medicine, 2nd Military Health Assistant
(Notarial Protocols of José María Pérez, year 1864-1865, file from
the National Archives 703750, record 61); he stated that he was
married to Maria Norberta Coen.
65 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, shelf B, 1836-
1855, folio 150. The officiating priest was Antonio Siguíez.
66 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, 1814, folio
7. The officiating priest was Agustín Tabares. The bride’s parents
were from Azua (image 301).
67 The children of César Augusto Romano Martínez graduated
with degrees in dentistry (1912); others became attorneys and a
judge.
68 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, 1829, folio
190. The witnesses were Manuel Guesca and Mercedes Simancas.
The groom was the widower of Juana Montero and the bride the
widow of Antonio Garrido.
69 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, 1883, record
8, folio 89; National Archives, Marriage Register, 1st Circuit of
Santo Domingo, E-333, 1880-1884, record 8, folios 99-100.
70 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register, 1863, record 38.
71 Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Marriage Register book XII, re-
cord 98. folio 104.
72 Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Azua, Marriage
Register, record 447, folio 222. The officiating priest was Pedro
Ramón Suazo.
73 Iglesia Santa Lucía, Las Matas de Farfán. Marriage Register,
1894, record 234, folio 103.
74 Antonio Capano, a naturalized Dominican citizen by means
of Decree No. 1356 dated December 5, 1941.
75 Rocco Capano, his son, a naturalized Dominican citizen by
means of Decree No. 1263 dated October 13, 1941. Amerchant and
industrialist, the owner of the company Capano & Cia. company
that produced Catelli spaghetti and Dubble Bubble chewing gum.
76 A merchant, who worked from his residence at Calle Del Mer-
cado No. 34 in Santo Domingo in 1886. Death record No. 83:
“DONATO SALVUCCI, age 44 years old, single, a merchant, a
native of Palermo, Italy, he died on August 1, 1886, at 1:00 a.m.
The legitimate son of Félix Salvucci and Ángela Finduí, both de-
ceased. Declared by professor Moisés García.”
77 He too was a merchant who guarded Donato’s assets at this
death in 1886.
78 National Archives, Parish of the Cathedral, Santo Domingo,
1895-1899, E-430-2, folio 104. The civil marriage was in the pres-
ence of the registrar Isidoro Pérez on February 19, 1897. Gaetana
María, being widowed, married Nicolás Alterio Cerosueli in 1912.
79 National Archives, Narriage Register Marriages of Santo Do-
mingo, 1911-1913, book E-320-2, record 77, folio 165. Gaetana,
widow of Félix Salvuccio, was thirty years old, and Nicolás thir-
ty-nine.
80 His death was reported in the obituary section of La Nación
newspaper on January 3, 1943.
81 He became a naturalized Dominican citizen by means of De-
cree No. 3674 dated August 3, 1896.
82 Iglesia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, Azua, Marriage Reg-
ister, 1899, record 135, folio 54.
83 Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Regla, Baní, Marriage Register,
1893, record 1, folio 140.
84 According to family tradition, he was from Palermo, Sicily,
and his mother’s last name was Solis. His marriage record is illeg-
ible. He died in San José de Ocoa on December 2, 1889 (Nation-
al Archives, Death Register, Civil Registry of San José de Ocoa,
1889, record 22, folios 65-66).
85 Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla, Baní, Marriage Register,
1902, record 144, folio 74. The betrothal was reported in El Día
newspaper on January 27, 1902.
86 In addition to Hotel Italy in Baní, he also owned the Hotel
Saboya in San Pedro de Macorís.
87 He arrived in the Dominican Republic in November 1894 via
the port of Santo Domingo. In 1943 he lived at Calle President
Trujillo No. 28 in San Juan de la Maguana. Antonio Marranzini,
a native of Santa Lucia di Serino, arrived in New York from Na-
ples on March 31, 1899, at the age of 32, on the steamer EMS
(information from Ellis Island:
org/passenger-details/czoxMjoiNjAzMDYxMTEwMDYxIjs=/
czo5OiJwYXNzZW5nZXIiOw==).
88 He arrived in the Dominican Republic in 1897 from Haiti. In
1942 he lived at Calle 16 de Agosto at the corner of Calle Mella in
San Juan de la Maguana. His death was reported in the obituary
section of La Nación newspaper on January 6, 1947. Funeral home
at Calle Luisa Ozema Pellerano at the corner of Calle Seibo in
Santo Domingo.
89 He died on December 27, 1953 and was buried in San Juan de
la Maguana.
90 He arrived in the country on November 7, 1907 via the port of
Santo Domingo. In 1953 he lived in Padre de las Casas.
91 Marriage reported in Renacimiento magazine dated July 21,
1917.
92 In 1944 he resided at Calle Uruguay No. 9 in Santo Domingo.
His death was reported in the obituary section of the La Nación
newspaper on January 1, 1956.
93 Rafaella Velli’s death was reported in the obituary section of
La Nación newspaper on September 15, 1953. He was 79 years of
age at his death in the International Hospital. He had resided at
Calle Uruguay No. 9 in Santo Domingo.
94 Iglesia de San Cristóbal, Marriage Register, 1894, record 80, fo-
lio 135. The husband stated that he had been living in the country
for six years.
95 In 1907 Miguel Demaio appears to have been residing at Calle
Duarte in San Juan de la Maguana. (Enrique Deschamps, Commer-
cial Directory and Guide for the Dominican Republic (Santo Domin-
go: Editora Santo Domingo S.A., 1974).
96 He arrived in the country on October 16, 1926, via Puerto Pla-
ta. He came as a farmer and then purchased land; he also brought
his brother Dante from Italy. In 1951 he lived at Calle Julia Moli-
na in San Juan de la Maguana.
97 He arrived in the country on September 27, 1937 via Puerto
Plata. In 1944 he resided at Calle Santomé No. 34 in San Juan de
la Maguana.
98 In 1948 he resided at Calle Arz. Portes No. 23 in Santo Domin-
go.
99 It seems that he arrived in New York from Naples on July
20, 1912, on the S.S. San Guglielmo. He was 54, a “dealer” by
profession, and accompanied by his 18-year-old son Amadeo. He
lived at Calle Méndez Vico No. 64, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He
married Filomena, and he had a brother named Vicenzo. Anoth-
er Barletta named Raffaele also appears (information from Ellis
Island:
czoxMjoiMTAwOTU1MTQwMjU3Ijs=/czo5OiJwYXNzZW5n-
ZXIiOw==).