Apologies in advance for the length of this post but here goes...
I am helping a friend who is relatively new to family history and we are focusing on this family. Neither of us has an ancestry sub currently so I can't post census links after 1881 - sorry - so a brief summary of anything anyone finds on ancestry would be helpful in the first instance. We can then follow up any ancestry links posted to this thread via Ancestry institution at the library next Tuesday. (I have a current FMP world sub due to expire around later this month)
I've tracked Vito and Mary Mengella (loads of name variants over the years - name seems to have settled as Mengella in the early 1900s) through all censuses 1881-1911 in Preston as below:
1881 at 15 Turks Head Yard, Preston
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/s...try&h=11885382
Transcribed as Vito Aningella, Mary Mengalla and on the next page Feolmeana Migella who is more than likely their daughter. I wonder if she might have been 8 months rather than 8 years as otherwise there is a big gap between her and the next child, plus see following censuses - either way, can't find a birth reg.
1891 at 7 Kirkham Street North, Preston
Veto and Mary Muncelli, plus children Minnie 11 (could this be Filomena/Philomena from above if 8 months theory is correct?), Sarah (Seraphina) 9, Daniel 7, Mary Teresa 3
1901 at 154 North Road, Preston
Vito and Mary Mungella, plus children Philomena 21, Seraphina 19, Daniel 17, Mary Teresa 14, John 9, Martha 7, (Mary) Madelina 5, Lewis (Louis) 2
1911 at 4 Brownlow Street, Preston
Mary Mengella (widow) - 14 children born alive, 7 living, 5 dead - maths not a strong point!) plus Mary Teresa 23, John 18, Martha, Madiline 14, Louis 11, Francis 5, plus granddaughter Mary Phyllis 10 months - I think she Mary Teresa's (illegitimate) daughter.
I have found assorted birth, marriage registrations etc for the children born in Preston but don't want to make this post any longer than it already is by detailing them here. Variant surnames for the birth registrations include Minghella, Minghello, Mengella, Mengila, Mungella.
Can anyone find:
Philomena's birth
Naturalisation for Vito
Marriage for Vito and Mary, possibly in Italy, Mary's maiden name, any info re where they were from in Italy - family lore says Naples, see also 1881 census record for where born, when they arrived in England
Missing children - I make it 9 via censuses but there were apparently 14 altogether according to 1911 census.
Any other info welcome, even if we already have it..my friend is interested in working forward as well as back.
Thanks,
Christine
I am helping a friend who is relatively new to family history and we are focusing on this family. Neither of us has an ancestry sub currently so I can't post census links after 1881 - sorry - so a brief summary of anything anyone finds on ancestry would be helpful in the first instance. We can then follow up any ancestry links posted to this thread via Ancestry institution at the library next Tuesday. (I have a current FMP world sub due to expire around later this month)
I've tracked Vito and Mary Mengella (loads of name variants over the years - name seems to have settled as Mengella in the early 1900s) through all censuses 1881-1911 in Preston as below:
1881 at 15 Turks Head Yard, Preston
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/s...try&h=11885382
Transcribed as Vito Aningella, Mary Mengalla and on the next page Feolmeana Migella who is more than likely their daughter. I wonder if she might have been 8 months rather than 8 years as otherwise there is a big gap between her and the next child, plus see following censuses - either way, can't find a birth reg.
1891 at 7 Kirkham Street North, Preston
Veto and Mary Muncelli, plus children Minnie 11 (could this be Filomena/Philomena from above if 8 months theory is correct?), Sarah (Seraphina) 9, Daniel 7, Mary Teresa 3
1901 at 154 North Road, Preston
Vito and Mary Mungella, plus children Philomena 21, Seraphina 19, Daniel 17, Mary Teresa 14, John 9, Martha 7, (Mary) Madelina 5, Lewis (Louis) 2
1911 at 4 Brownlow Street, Preston
Mary Mengella (widow) - 14 children born alive, 7 living, 5 dead - maths not a strong point!) plus Mary Teresa 23, John 18, Martha, Madiline 14, Louis 11, Francis 5, plus granddaughter Mary Phyllis 10 months - I think she Mary Teresa's (illegitimate) daughter.
I have found assorted birth, marriage registrations etc for the children born in Preston but don't want to make this post any longer than it already is by detailing them here. Variant surnames for the birth registrations include Minghella, Minghello, Mengella, Mengila, Mungella.
Can anyone find:
Philomena's birth
Naturalisation for Vito
Marriage for Vito and Mary, possibly in Italy, Mary's maiden name, any info re where they were from in Italy - family lore says Naples, see also 1881 census record for where born, when they arrived in England
Missing children - I make it 9 via censuses but there were apparently 14 altogether according to 1911 census.
Any other info welcome, even if we already have it..my friend is interested in working forward as well as back.
Thanks,
Christine
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