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On this page: my father's ancestors as I had written about them for the Internet site Find a Grave before I read that site's Terms of Service.

By posting your work at Find a Grave, in seconds you hand over what may have been years of research and family photographs to a for-profit entity to do anything it wants with forever. The "Terms of Service" about "user provided content" (read below) are draconian, rapacious terms to which no one should agree.

Memorials created by Robert Angelo

And so I (Profile: #50064559) created or contributed to the following memorials before I read the "Terms of Service", which was a foolish thing not to do, and so I removed the biographies (with the exception of Giovanni Angelillo (Memorial: #7427068)) and photographs from the memorials I had written and posted to Find a Grave, and placed them here, on this page. [My Schlectweg-Becker-Angelo virtual cemetery (#1093711) at Find a Grave.]


Nicola Angelo

Memorial: #201886014
Born: 23 Feb 1853 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Died: 19 Oct 1920 (age 67) at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Saint Mark Cemetery, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Plot: C-58
Inscription: Nicola Angelilli
Nato 23 febbraio 1853
Morto 19 ottobre 1920

Nicola is named Nicola Angelillo in the Italian Civil Register, although he called himself Angelilli and Angelo. His parents' names were Domenico Angelillo (1810-1877) and Margarita (née Martino) (1815-1879). His wife's name was Maria (née Martone) (1860-1930). All were from Sant'Angelo d'Alife (CE) in far northeastern Campania (Nicola's family tree). Nicola, Maria and their five children all came to live in Bristol Borough, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nicola was first a laborer and later a gate tender for the railroad in Bristol Borough.

Nicola came to America in 1894 (or maybe 1892). Then Nicola's oldest son Michele (Michael Angelo, #201824611) came; and then Raffaele (Ralph Angelo, #201916552) followed Michele in 1901; and in 1905 Maria and the three youngest children (Giovanni, Anna, and Elisabetta) came. Nicola was the first to use the surname "Angelo", maybe because the name "Angelo" is easier to pronounce, as the U.S. Census records show that Bristol Borough's residents were mostly immigrants from all over Europe, speaking many different languages. The name "Angelo" is also a reminder of the place-name of Nicola's birth, Sant'Angelo.

Map showing Sant'Angelo and nearby towns including Raviscanina and Alife, 4 KB Panorama of Sant'Angelo by Sue Greco, July 1994, 26 KB
S. Angelo Alife (Sant'Angelo d'Alife)

Nicola brought our family to America and gave us our family name. I think "Angelo" was a wise choice. He was the first of our American family, a man who worked hard to begin a new life in America. Railroad work was backbreaking, and none of Nicola's sons followed him into that occupation.

Gravestone of Nicola Angelillo in Saint Mark Cemetery, 11 KB

Note: the old Saint Mark Cemetery is in Bristol Borough, in the small churchyard of Saint Mark Church. But the cemetery's extension is in Croydon, Bucks County, on Route 13 (which runs through Bristol Borough; Croydon is southwest of Bristol Borough), postal code 19021, next to Bristol Cemetery. This is where Nicola Angelo and his wife, daughters and granddaughter Concetta Jacovone are buried. Right: Photograph of the gravestone of Nicola Angelo. Grave C-58. His name on the gravestone is Nicola Angelilli.

Map showing Saint Mark Cemetery, Croydon, 5 KB Map showing the Sections of Saint Mark Cemetery, 9 KB
Saint Mark Cemetery, Croydon

Maria (née Martone) Angelo

Memorial: #187274374 (#201886375)
Born: 8 May 1860 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Married: 1879
Died: 1 Oct 1930 (aged 70) at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Saint Mark Cemetery, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Plot: unknown

Maria's parents' names were Biagio Martone (1825-1867) and Raffaela (née Rinaldi) (1822-1888). Her husband's name was Nicola Angelillo (later Nicola Angelo), and they were married 24 Apr 1879. All were from Sant'Angelo d'Alife (CE) in northeastern Campania, beyond the Volturno River at the base of the Matese Mountains. Nicola and later Maria came to live in Bristol Borough, north of Philadelphia. She was the mother of five children, two of whom, Michele and Giovanni, died before her. (Maria's family tree.) Maria came to America in 1905 with her three youngest children (Giovanni, Anna, and Elisabetta). Her husband Nicola and their two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's daughter Mary Concetta, are buried in Saint Mark Cemetery.

Following the death of Nicola in 1920, Maria married Alessandro Soave (1858-1943) of Cosenza, Calabria, and Tullytown, Bucks County.

Maintained by: Robert Angelo
Originally Created by: E.Renkin (#46537485)
Added: 12 Feb 2018
Transferred: 17 September 2022


Michael Angelo

Memorial: #201824611
Born: 23 Jul 1881 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Died: 3 Oct 1916 (aged 35) at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Section C, Lot 20, Fgn

Michael's birth name in Italy was Michele Angelillo and he was born in S. Angelo Alife in Campania. In the newspaper The Philadelphia Press (1916) death notice Michael's name is misspelled "Angelello", although his death certificate has "Angelo", although maybe "Angelo" will not have been his legal name. Michael's parents were Nicola Angelillo (1853-1920) and Maria (née Martone) (1860-1930). Michael's wife was Margaret (née King) Angelo (1879-1946) of Philadelphia.

Margaret Angelo is buried with Michael in Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, in Section C, Lot 20, FGN. Cemetery note: "South Half of lot Trans: 6/30/42". Maybe FGN means "first grave north" in Lot 20.

Nicola Angelillo came to America before his wife and children, and he was the first to use to the surname "Angelo". Then Nicola's oldest son Michele ("Michael") came. Then Raffaele ("Ralph") came, in 1901. And finally Maria and the three younger children (Giovanni, Anna, and Elisabetta) came in 1905. Nicola came to America in 1894 (or 1892), but I don't know when Michele ("Michael") came. Raffaele may have been the only one to formally (legally) change the family name to "Angelo". That was in 1943.

When and where Michael and Margaret were married, I don't know. The parish register of St. Ann's Church in Bristol Borough may have this record since St. Ann's celebrated the funeral Mass for Michael.

Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, Section C, Lot 20, 4 KB   Map of Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, 26 KB
Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia

Gravestone of Nicola Angelillo in Saint Mark Cemetery, 20 KB

Gravesite: Begin at the southwest corner of Section C. Lot 20 is the fifth lot to the east, about 60 feet from the corner. This is the first row of graves bordering the cemetery's Wingohocking Street.

Photograph of the gravestone of Michael and Margaret Angelo in Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Michael's name can no longer be read.

Margaret (née King) Angelo

Memorial: #201887823
Born: 25 Mar 1879 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Married: date unknown
Died: 31 Oct 1946 (aged 67) at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Greenmount Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Section C, Lot 20, Fgn

Margaret was married to Michael Angelo (1881-1916, Michele Angelillo of S. Angelo Alife, Italy), and she is buried with him in Greenmount Cemetery in Philadelphia.

Margaret's parent's names were Armanus ("Henry") King and Rebecca (née Pilling) of Philadelphia. In the 1880 U.S. Census, Margaret is named as the youngest of seven children (Charles, Robert, Elizabeth, Washington, Mary, Caroline, and Margaret), but there were to be younger children (Esther, William). She and her parents were born in Pennsylvania, as were her grandparents except for her mother's father who was born in England.

Margaret was born and died in Philadelphia, but she lived with Michael in Bristol Borough, north of Philadelphia. Her death certificate shows that she did not remarry after Michael's death.


Ralph Angelo

Memorial: #201916552
Born: 16 Aug 1888 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Died: 25 Sep 1965 (aged 77) at Maple Shade, Burlington County, New Jersey
Buried: Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey
Plot: Section 8, Lot 21

Ralph's Italian birth name was Raffaele Angelillo. His parents were Nicola Angelillo (1853-1920) and Maria (née Martone) (1860-1930), all of Sant'Angelo d'Alife. Ralph's wife was Eleanor (née Becker) Angelo (1909-1985). They were married in Croydon, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on 4 Jun 1924.

Raffaele came to America on the steamship Werra, which landed at the Port of New York on 6 May 1901 having left Naples on 20 April 1901. Raffaele was twelve year, nine months old (although the ship's manifest says he is 15 years old), and traveled alone. At Ellis Island he was detained until his father Nicola came for him. Nicola took Raffaele to live in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Raffaele's older brother Michele (#201824611) was already there, although year of arrival unknown. (Ship's manifest: entry for Raffaele Angelillo, S. Angelo Alife.)

The Steamship Werra, 53 KB Copy of Raffaele Angelillo's birth record, 22 KB Ralph's 1950 blue Chevrolet truck with his name ANGELO or RALPH ANGELO on the doors in white letters, 12 KB Ralph Angelo in 1942-43, 20 KB

The Steamship Werra | Copy of Raffaele Angelillo's birth record | Ralph's 1950 blue Chevrolet truck with his name ANGELO or RALPH ANGELO on the doors in white letters | Ralph Angelo in 1942-43

If I were a creative writer, this is the story I would like to tell

Raffaele is twelve years, nine months old. He has never before seen anything but his own village, maybe not even more than his own neighborhood. He is taken by a small wagon to a nearby town with a train station, there to take the train to Naples. He passes through miles of countryside and ever-larger towns, seeing things he has never seen before. Finally the train arrives at the port city of Naples, its harbor lined with buildings and filled with steamships. It is the first time the boy has seen a city, a ship, the ocean. The Werra sets sail, stopping at Gibraltar before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. And then it travels for twelve days across the limitless sea and into New York harbor. There Raffaele is taken to Ellis Island where as a minor he is detained to wait for his father to come for him. He is given lunch and supper, the first time he has ever eaten rye bread or white wheat bread, unless he has eaten that on the ship where he has slept in steerage, a huge bunked dormitory in the steamship's hold. When his father arrives, together they travel to Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania. He has known for years this was his future. He has seen his father leave for America and then his older brother, and known that he is next.

Raffaele is thirty-two years old. He is an independent store operator. He owns a station wagon with wood panel sides at a time when few families own cars. In three years he will marry a girl from Philadelphia. They will go canoeing on the Schuylkill River and take the girl's young cousin Warren with them. Warren remembers sleeping on a cot behind the store. It is a wholesale Italian grocery store with strings of dried peppers and things like this hanging from the ceiling.

And then the Depression comes and Raffaele must start out all over again, but now with a wife and children.

Eleanor (née Becker) Angelo

Memorial: #201921699
Born: 19 Mar 1909 at Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio
Died: 26 Dec 1985 (aged 76) at Maple Shade, Burlington County, New Jersey
Married: 1924
Buried: Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey
Plot: Section 8, Lot 21

Eleanor grew up in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She married Ralph Angelo (1888-1965) in Croydon, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After they were married they lived in Bristol Borough which is next door to Croydon. Eleanor's mother was Mabel Becker (1887-1911), but she died when Eleanor was two years old. (The birth and life of Eleanor Becker) | (Map of location in Locustwood Cemetery)

Ralph Angelo's gravestone, 12 KB   Eleanor Angelo's gravestone, 16 KB
Ralph Angelo's grave | Eleanor Angelo's grave


Mabel Cecilia Becker

Memorial: #201926658
Born: 9 Jan 1887 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Died: 23 Apr 1911 (aged 24) at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Chelten Hills Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Section C, Lot 705, Grave 2

Photograph of Mabel Becker 1909-1911, 56 KB
Mabel Becker, about 1910

Mabel was the daughter of William Andrew (1862-1927) and Anne (née Schlectweg) (1863-1934) Becker. She was the mother of Eleanor Becker (1909-1985). She is buried beside her sisters Marie (wife of Robert Scott) and Florence Becker, and their mother Anne (née Schlectweg). Mabel is my great-grandmother. She died when my grandmother was two years old. (Mabel and Eleanor's family tree.)


Elizabeth (née Angelillo) Jacovone

Memorial: #201894047
Born: 10 Nov 1899 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Married: date unknown
Died: 16 Jun 1965 (aged 65) at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Saint Mark Cemetery, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Plot: unknown

Elizabeth's Italian birth name was Elisabetta Angelillo. Her parents were Nicola Angelillo (1853-1920) and Maria (née Martone) (1860-1930). She was married to Gabriele Jacovone (#12011387) (1899-1982), and they lived in Tullytown just north of Bristol Borough, and they had a daughter they named (Maria) Concetta Jacovone (1923-1968). Elizabeth's death certificate says that she is buried in "St. Ann's Cem., Bristol, Bucks PA", but Saint Ann's Church does not have its own cemetery. Her obituary (The Bristol Daily Courier, 17 June 1965, p. 22) says that she is buried in St Mark Cemetery.


Mary C. Jacovone
(Maria) Concetta Jacovone

Memorial: #201979122
Born: 4 Nov 1923 at Pennsylvania
Died: 6 Dec 1968 (aged 45) at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Saint Mark Cemetery, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Plot: unknown

Maria Concetta was the daughter of Elizabeth (née Angelillo) Jacovone (1899-1965) and Elizabeth's husband Gabriele Jacovone (1899-1982). Records for Mary Concetta are found in the Social Security Death Index, the Pennsylvania Death Index, Pennsylvania Death Certificate, the 1930 U.S. Census for Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (with her parents as Mary C. Iacovone), and in the ship's passenger list (again with her parents as Concetta Iacovone) for the SS Rex arriving in New York on 13 Jun 1935, having sailed from Naples, Italy. She was an only child and unmarried.


PVT Giovanni Angelillo

Memorial: #7427068
Born: 4 May 1893 at Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Provincia di Caserta, Campania, Italy
Died: 27 Sep 1918 (aged 25) at Montfaucon-d'Argonne, Département de la Meuse, Lorraine, France
Buried: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Département de la Meuse, Lorraine, France
Plot: Block B, Row 32, Grave 13

The gravestone of Giovanni Angelillo, 30 KB Undated newspaper picture of Giovanni Angelillo, 41 KB Map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 55 KB
Giovanni Angelillo's grave | Undated newspaper photograph of Giovanni Angelillo | Map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive

Giovanni served in the U.S. Army from 25 May 1918 until his death. He was a Private in Company K, 315th Infantry, 79th Division, AEF, when he was killed in action at Malancourt, near Montfaucon, on the second day of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive (26 Sep 1918 to 11 Nov 1918), Lorraine, France, World War I. (Source of the grave photograph)

Giovanni came to America in 1905 and lived with his family in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, until he was called to military service.

Family Members

Parents:
Nicola Angelo (1853-1920)
Maria (née Martone) Angelo (1860-1930)

Brothers and sisters:
Michael Angelo (1881-1916)
Ralph Angelo (1888-1965)
Anna (née Angelillo) Morganti (#187274422) (4 Sep 1894 - 12 Feb 1935) (Married: 1912)
Elizabeth (née Angelillo) Jacovone (1899-1965) (Married: 1923)

Inscription:
GIOVANNI ANGELILLO
PVT. 315 INF. 79 DIV.
PENNSYLVANIA SEPT. 27, 1918

Maintained by: Robert Angelo
Originally Created by: John "J-Cat" Griffith (#46568383)
Added: 9 May 2003
Transferred: c. 16 August 2019


Andreas Schlectweg

Memorial: #201943988
Born: 10 May 1836 at Gehaus, Wartburgkreis, Thüringen, Germany
Died: 18 Aug 1891 (aged 55) at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Glenwood Cemetery (Defunct), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Reburied:
Plot: Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Section P, Lot No. 333, 3rd Grave

Andreas was the husband of Mary Jane (née Dickinson) (c. 1836 - 1887) of northern Ireland, and the father of Anne Elizabeth (née Schlectweg) Becker (1863-1934). Andreas was born in Gehaus bei Vacha, which was in Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach at that time. (Andreas Schlectweg's descendants)

Andreas Schlectweg of Gehaus bei Vacha, Thuringia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 KB
Andreas Schlectweg

Gravesite: There is no gravemarker.

Mary Jane (née Dickinson) Schlectweg

Memorial: #201944143
Born: c. 1836 at Ireland
Died: 20 Jun 1887 (aged 50-51) at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Married: 1860
Buried: Glenwood Cemetery (Defunct), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Reburied:
Plot: Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Section P, Lot No. 333, 3rd Grave

Mary Jane was married to Andreas Schlectweg (1836-1891), and was the mother of Anne Elizabeth (née Schlectweg) Becker (1863-1934). Mary Jane was Scots-Irish (her son Harry wore orange on St Patrick's Day), and she was born about 1836 or 1837.

Mary Jane and Andreas had five children:

All four sons used the surname "Slackway", which is an English language equivalent of "Schlectweg", but Anne did not.

Gravesite: There is no gravemarker.


Wilhelm Becker

Memorial: #201944867
Born: 4 Aug 1822 at Baden-Baden, Stadtkreis Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died: 28 Dec 1901 (aged 79) at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Section U, Lot 183, Grave 1st & 2nd West

Map showing the Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France and Baden-Baden, Germany, 58 KB
Bas-Rhin, Alsace, and Baden-Baden, Germany

Mülhausen's French name is "Mulhausen", but Mülhausen is a very small village in the Department of Bas-Rhin ("Lower Rhine", which is the northern half of Alsace) and should not be confused with the city of Mülhausen (French name "Mulhouse") in Haut-Rhin ("Higher Rhine", the southern half of Alsace). Baden-Baden, the birth place of Wilhelm Becker, lies directly to the east of the village of Mülhausen (which is in the Arrondissement of Saverne), across the Rhine River in the German state of Baden.

Wilhelm was the husband of Margarett (née Kiehl) (#187152452) (4 Aug 1830 - 20 Feb 1916) (Married: date unknown) who was born in Mülhausen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. They were the parents of William Andrew Becker (1862-1927). Wilhelm was originally buried in Glenwood Cemetery (Defunct) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but his body was transferred to Mount Peace Cemetery when his wife Margarett died, and they are now buried there side by side.

Margarett's parents were Johann Kiehl (born 13 Dec 1796) and (Anna) Maria (née Peter) Kiehl (born 21 May 1796). They were married on 11 Dec 1814 in Mülhausen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Johann's parents were Heinrich Kiehl and Catherina (née Conrath) Keihl. (Anna) Maria's parents were Johann Peter and Madelaine (née Schnepp) Peter. Anna Maria was known by the name Maria rather than Anna, as is shown by Margarett's Mülhausen birth record (4 Aug 1830).

Glenwood Memorial Gardens sent the following information to me (9 Aug 2019).

These will be Johann and (Anna) Maria Kiehl. Because they died in the 19th Century, they were originally buried in Glenwood Cemetery (Defunct) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

If 81 years and 87 years are added to 1796, the birth year of Johann and Maria Kiehl, the result is 1877 and 1883, at which time, namely between 1870-71 (Franco-Prussian War) and 1918 (end of World War One), Alsace was part of Germany.

Gravesite: For Wilhelm and Margarett (née Kiehl) Becker, there is no gravestone. The plot itself (Section U, Lot 183, Grave 1st & 2nd West) is located not very far from the West Lehigh Avenue entrance to Mount Peace Cemetery (sketch map: 14 walk 8 lot right).


William Andrew Becker

Memorial: #201927014
Born: 9 Jan 1862 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Died: 30 Jul 1927 (aged 65) Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Willow Section, Row G, Position #57

William Andrew was the husband of Anne (née Schlectweg) (1863-1934), the father of Mabel Cecilia Becker (1887-1911), and the grandfather of Eleanor Mabel (née Becker) Angelo (1909-1985). But William Andrew left his family and judging from his Pennsylvania death certificate, he died in Philadelphia General Hospital, which was a charity hospital for the destitute, all alone and barely known by those in the (I think) boarding house he had lived with. Like his father Wilhelm, William Andrew was a butcher by trade.

The Northwood Cemetery Company wrote to me (14 August 2019) that William Andrew was buried in Willow Section, Row G, Position #57, on 1 August 1927. "This is a company owned grave and has no grave markings at this time."

Undated photograph of William Andrew Becker, 88 KB
William Andrew Becker

Gravesite: There is no gravestone.


Anne Elizabeth (née Schlectweg) Becker

Memorial: #145527132 (#201928310)
Born: 25 Sep 1863 at Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Married: 1885
Died: Aug 1934 (aged 70)
Buried: Chelten Hills Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Plot: Section C, Lot 705, Grave 3

Anne Elizabeth was the daughter of Andreas (1836-1891) and Mary Jane (née Dickinson) (c.1836-1887) Schlectweg. Three of Anne's daughters, namely Mabel, Marie and Florence, are buried in the same Lot 705 as Anne. Marie (née Becker) Scott, and Florence died in the influenza pandemic of 1918. Judging by the U.S. censuses, Anne's husband William left between 1910 and 1920. Anne did not die at home, but in a care home, but where and exactly when I don't know. She was buried on 6 August 1934. Anne was my great-great-grandmother.

Anne Elizabeth (Schlectweg) Becker in old age, 17 KB
Anne Elizabeth (née Schlectweg) Becker

Gravesite: There is no gravemarker (Chelten Hills Cemetery)


Removed from my Profile (10 September 2019)

My Profile at Find a Grave: #50064559

My father's father, Raffaele (Memorial #201916552), was from "St. Angelo, in the State of Naples", which is now called Sant'Angelo d'Alife, in the Region of Campania. He came to America in 1901, to Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania. Raffaele was born in the Kingdom of Italy, but his father Nicola Angelillo (Memorial #201886014) was born in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Nicola was the first of my family to come to America (about 1894) and the first to use the family name "Angelo".

Comment: there was historical justification for the northern Italian desire to be classified as a different race or people from the southern Italians, because the history of the south was the history of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples ("the Two Sicilies"), kingdoms whose history was very different from the history of the regions to their north. (Neither history nor culture, however, justifies placing the regions of "Liguria, Tuscany, the Marches, Umbria and Rome" in the same category as the southern Italian regions of "the Abruzzi and Molise, Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria".) Garibaldi was right to call the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies "the Mezzogiorno", recognizing it as a world separate both from the northern and central regions of Italy. My own ancestors were southern Italians, quite distinct both from the industrialists of the north and the creative geniuses of central Italy.

24 August 2019 Version

My father's father was from what he called in English "St. Angelo, in the State of Naples", Kingdom of Italy, which is now called Sant'Angelo d'Alife in the Region of Campania, Republic of Italy. He came to America in 1901, to Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania. (Memorial #201916552)

Original Version

My father's father's family came from Sant'Angelo d'Alife in Campania to Bristol Borough in Pennsylvania. But my father's mother's family came from Alsace, Baden, Scots-Irish Ireland, and Thuringia to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but that was only half and the other half is unknown to me.

About Sant'Angelo and my grandfather Raffaele Angelillo (Ralph Angelo #201916552). When he registered for the United States' World War II draft for old men in 1942, Ralph identified his Place of Birth as "St. Angelo. State of Naples." This may have been because "Province of Caserta, Region of Campania" was without meaning to him, and because the common people of Sant'Angelo d'Alife did not themselves use the suffix "d'Alife" or any other when naming their hometown, which is a small borough at the foot of the Matese Mountains, on the other side of the Volturno River from Naples, beyond ancient Felix Campania.

The Italian Civil Status records show that Sant'Angelo has historically been identified by many different suffixes and was at different times known by different official names, as from oldest to newest: Santangiolo Raviscanina, S. Angelo a Raviscanina, Santangiolo di Piedimonte, S. Angelo Alife, and finally Sant'Angelo d'Alife, with "Santangelo" as a variant spelling of Sant'Angelo.

The Borough (commune in Italian) of Sant'Angelo belonged to the Kingdom of Naples before 1861, and the city of Naples was the kingdom's capital. If he were asked, "Where are you from?" Ralph might have replied "Sant'Angelo, not too far from Naples." And I think he did reply that way.


Alessandro Soave

Memorial: #187274350
Born: 8 Dec 1858 at Cosenza, Provincia di Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
Married: 5 June 1921 to Maria (née Martone) Angelillo
Died: 28 Oct 1943 (aged 84) at Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Saint Mark Cemetery, Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Plot: unknown

Family Members: Spouse
Maria Martone Angelillo Soave (1860-1930)

Maintained by: Robert Angelo
Originally Created by: E.Renkin (#46537485)
Added: 12 Feb 2018
Transferred: 17 September 2022


Alessandro Soave's death certificate names his parents as Domenico Soave and Joanna née Palumbo, both born in Italy. Alessandro's year of immigration: 1893.


Gabriel Angelo Jacovone

Memorial: #12011387
Born: 13 Mar 1899 at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Married: 8 January 1923 to Elizabeth Angelillo
Died: 26 Feb 1982 (aged 82) at Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida
Buried: Royal Palm South Cemetery, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida
Plot: unknown

Family Members: Spouse
Elizabeth (Angelillo) Jacovone (1899-1965)
Children
Mary Concetta Jacovone (1923-1968)

After Elizabeth's death, Gabriel married Elvira Perticari or Perticori in November 1965. Gabriel's mother's maiden name was Norato.

Maintained by: Robert Angelo
Originally Created by: LMV (#46575002)
Added: 14 Oct 2005
Transferred: 24 September 2022



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