I was born in Rome, Italy, however my
MORENO
family has its roots in
Sanremo.
My paternal grandfather was a medical doctor, his surgery
was in Via Feraldi #3, in the center of Sanremo. He was
known as "meigo Berasci", "meigo" is a dialect
word meaning medical doctor, also Berasci is
a dialect word that means "curly hair". I started
my research after I found 3 integral copies of the birth acts
(Estratti di nascita) related to my paternal Great-grandfather,
his father and his grandfather, all the certificates were released
by the St. Siro Parish in Sanremo and contained the name of
the parents of the infant and his marriage information.
I took a paper sheet torn from a squared exercise book and a
pencil and I started drawing the
Moreno
tree beginning with my 3rd Great-Grandfather Gio-Batta,
married to Caterina Robiola. We were in the late 70's... My
research mainly went on through informal interviews of my relatives
in Sanremo, other info was taken from the tombstones in
the cemetery of Sanremo. And for many years the research was
limited to the Moreno surname... At the beginning of 2005 I
contacted the priest of the St Siro Parish. After several months,
several calls and personal visits I was able to learn the name
of my 4th Great-Grandfather, Joannes (Giovanni) Moreno, married
to Brigida Massa.
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Stemmi Dollero e Martin
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My mother came from a noble family in Torino, the
DOLLERO.
My grandfather Emanuele had no male children and also his cousins
had no male children therefore the Dollero family in Italy is
extinct. My grandfather's brother,
Adolfo
Dollero, book writer and traveler, moved to Latin America
in 1895. In 1898 he married Maria Luisa Paoletti, countess of
Rodoretto (Piemonte, Italy) and his descendants are now spread
in Mexico, USA and Argentina. In 1996-7 I
got in touch with one of the overseas relatives, he had the
same passion for genealogy and with his help I was able to build
Adolfo Dollero's progeny. In 2006
Domenico Capolongo published, in the 5th volume of the Historical
Studies Collection
Emigrazione e presenza italiana a Cuba,
a detailed and complete biography of Adolfo Dollero as a result
of a thorough research lasted a couple of years. I obviously
took advantage of it...
I have very little information about the
Olivero
family, which is my paternal grandmother branch with roots in
Caramagna Piemonte (Cuneo). Based on a
manuscript from my
father, I was able to know the name of my great-grandparents,
Francesco and Giuseppina Casale. My mother was telling the Dollero
were cousins of the Olivero, Rosalia Dollero, widow Cane, was
the mother of Ernesta Cane married to Tancredi Dollero, Emanuele's
and Adolfo's father. My probable best guessing is that Rosalia
was Francesco's sister.
My mother's mother, Corinna
Drake,
was British although she was born in Savona, Italy, and she
never crossed the Channel. She claimed she was a descendant
of the famous pirate
Sir Francis Drake, her family owned a sword and a silver
cup, gift from Queen Elizabeth I. But apparently Sir Francis
Drake had no children... My granny had several siblings, I heard
21, a manuscript
of my mother is listing 15 names and 11 of them died adults.
Four of the Drake sisters got married in Italy to Italian gentlemen:
Jane (1856-1941) to Giuseppe
Sangiorgi, Florence (1857-1939)
to Riboldi, Alice (1859-1935)
to Enea Zuffi and Corinna (1873-1964)
to Emanuele Dollero in 1906.
Unfortunately I never exploited my mother's extraordinary historical
memory, she knew and was in good friendship with all the relatives,
on both Drake and Dollero sides. A lot of stories about he family
were lost forever when she passed away. I continued to informally
interview all the relatives that I had the opportunity to meet.
Searching among the paper left by my mother I was able to find
many information however the Drake branch is still full of gaps.
I found out the name of Corinna's mother because her parents
are cited in a
birth certificate
issued by the British Consulate in Genova. They say that James
Drake and Jane Moore owned a vessel and spent most of their
time traveling around the world.
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Stemma dei baronetti
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At the beginning of 2008, thank to the
Gente di
Mare friends, I was able to obtain the
marriage certificate of James and Jane
and to find out Jane's parents: James Adolphus
Moore Esquire, Royal Marine
Artillery, grandson of Sir Emanuel Moore,
Baronet of Rosscarbery, in the county
of Cork, Ireland, and Jane Austen. At the end of 2008, and once again
thank to the Gente di Mare friends, I was able to find on the Ancestry.com
website a genealogical tree, owned by Ian Pace, which listed James Adolphus
Moore and all his descendants included Jane Moore her husband James Drake, their
children and their grandchildren.
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Stemma Boyle
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Navigating on Internet, I found some books about the british nobilty and discovered that the 1st baronet, Sir Emanuel
Moore, married Martha Hull daughter of Sir William and of Jane
Boyle,
bilonging to a noble family whose founder, Lodowick lived during the reign of Henry, King of England. Lodowick Boyle is my 19th grea-grandfather!