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Descendants of Padre Colloraffi

Generation No. 6


56. SALVADORE X.11 COLLORAFFI (GIUSEPPE X10, PIERTO LINK9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born 1829. He married MARIANNA CALARICIA, daughter of ANTONINO CALARICIA. She was born in Correte, Sicily, Italy.

Notes for SALVADORE X. COLLORAFFI:
In the birth certificate of his son, Salvadore, Savadore Sr. is listed as being a miller. We know that this part of the Collorafi family had a mill in Valle Vallone, between San Piero Patti and Librizzi. This was run by Domenico and Anna P. Collorafi.
     
Children of SALVADORE COLLORAFFI and MARIANNA CALARICIA are:
  i.   SALVADORE X12 COLLORAFFI, b. December 07, 1869, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
86. ii.   CARMELO X SALVATORE (COLLURAFFI) COLLORAFFI, b. 1853, San Piero Patti, Sicilia.


57. MARIA11 COLLURA (MARIA GIUSEPPA10 COLLORAFFI, PIERTO LINK9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia. She married STEFANO MUHIETTA. He was born in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
     
Child of MARIA COLLURA and STEFANO MUHIETTA is:
  i.   BENEDETTO12 MULIELLA, b. 1855, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia; m. MARIANNA COLLORAFFI, October 11, 1880, Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia; b. 1858, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia; d. July 16, 1898, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
  Notes for MARIANNA COLLORAFFI:
The marriage certificate for Marianna Colloraffi and Salvatore Lo Re has her age as 16 years old. Her husband Salvatore is 26 years old. He is a miner. Her father is Biagio and her mother is Maria Teressa. Maria is a seamstress. It seems that Marrianna married again 7 years latter. This husband's mother is Maria Collura - another link of the Colloraffis and Collura family. Her death certificate, giving her age as 39, Her profession is given as a seamstress. Her fathter's profession is listed as a barber and her mother's as a seamstress.

  More About BENEDETTO MULIELLA and MARIANNA COLLORAFFI:
Marriage: October 11, 1880, Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia



58. BENEDETTO11 COLLURA (MARIA GIUSEPPA10 COLLORAFFI, PIERTO LINK9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born March 18, 1845 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia. He married PAOLA GUMINA.
     
Child of BENEDETTO COLLURA and PAOLA GUMINA is:
  i.   GIUSEPPE12 COLLURA, b. Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia; m. FRANCESCA DINA, February 05, 1838, Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia.
  More About GIUSEPPE COLLURA and FRANCESCA DINA:
Marriage: February 05, 1838, Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia



59. ANTONINO11 COLLORAFFI (SALVATORE10, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born 1898 in Santa Agata, Sicily, and died 1976. He married (2) BETTINA SOTERA, daughter of BIAGIO SOTERA and GIUSEPPA DIEGOBLANCA. She was born 1906 in Sant Agata di Militello, Sicilia, and died March 21, 1942 in Sant Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
     
Children of ANTONINO COLLORAFFI are:
  i.   SALVATORE12 COLLORAFFI, b. July 05, 1925.
  Notes for SALVATORE COLLORAFFI:
Salvatore Colloraffi lives in Rome.

87. ii.   VINCENZO COLLORAFFI, b. 1947, Asmira, Eritrea, Africa.
  iii.   BIAGIO COLLORAFFI.
88. iv.   MARIA COLLORAFFI, b. 1929, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
     
Children of ANTONINO COLLORAFFI and BETTINA SOTERA are:
  v.   VINCENZO12 COLLORAFFI.
  vi.   BIAGIO COLLORAFFI, b. January 18, 1928.


60. BIAGIO11 COLLORAFFI (SALVATORE10, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born Abt. 1890 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia, and died Abt. 1942 in WWII.
     
Children of BIAGIO COLLORAFFI are:
  i.   MARIA12 COLLORAFFI, b. 1916.
  ii.   CARLO COLLORAFFI.
  iii.   BROTHER COLLORAFFI, d. Abt. 1942, WWII.
  iv.   BROTHER B COLLORAFFI, b. Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia; d. Abt. 1942, WWII.


61. WOMAN X11 COLLORAFI (GAETANO10 COLLORAFFI, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born in Salina, Sicily, Italy. She married MAN DI VILLAZZO.
     
Child of WOMAN COLLORAFI and MAN DI VILLAZZO is:
  i.   BOY12 DI VILLAZZO.
  Notes for BOY DI VILLAZZO:
This boys mother died and he grew up in the family of Vincenzino & Giovanna Virgona Collorafi in Salina, Sicily, Italy.



62. VINCENZO X11 COLLORAFFI (GAETANO10, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born 1810 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia, and died July 1880 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia. He married GIOVANNA VIRGONA in Salina, Sicily. She was born in Salina, Sicilia, Italia.

Notes for VINCENZO X COLLORAFFI:
I am not sure that Vincenzo belongs with this set of parents. We have information about his death, which states his age. I placed him here because of the continuation of the Vincenzo name in this family, and the date he was born. This may or may not be where he belongs.The information on this family comes to us from Guiseppa (Josie) Collorafi Biviano of Australia, who received it from Vincenzino (Enzio) Collorafi of Australia, great grandson of Gaeteno. (April, 1999) It is believed that this Gaeteno is the son of Biagio. The x means that the relationship is not proven. When Vincenzino's daughter goes to the USA, the spelling of her name is with 2 f's, as is the custom with Biagio's children. However, his son, Salvatore's name is recorded with only one f in the Ellis Island records.

More About VINCENZO COLLORAFFI and GIOVANNA VIRGONA:
Marriage: Salina, Sicily
     
Children of VINCENZO COLLORAFFI and GIOVANNA VIRGONA are:
89. i.   ANTONINO12 COLLORAFI, b. Salina, Sicily, Italy; d. Argentina, South America.
90. ii.   SALVATORE COLLORAFI, b. 1895, Salina; d. USA.
  iii.   GUISEPPINA COLLORAFI, d. USA.
  iv.   NICOLLINA COLLORAFI, b. 1868, Salina, Sicilia, Italia; d. USA.
  Notes for NICOLLINA COLLORAFI:
I believe that we have the record for Nicollina's emigration to the USA in the records of Ellis Island. They record a Filomenia, age 46, from Salina, Sicily arriving in Ellis Island in 1900. Either the name is transcribed wrong, or Nicollina is a nickname for the name Filomenia. Information about Nicollina being a child of these parents is from family records.

  v.   FRANCESCA COLLORAFI, d. Melbourne, Australia; m. MARIO BONGIORNO.
  vi.   ANGELINA COLLORAFI, d. USA; m. ANTONINO LICHARDO.
91. vii.   ANNUZIATTA COLLORAFI, b. Salina, Sicily, Italy; d. Lingua, Salina, Sicily, Italy.
  viii.   MARIA COLLORAFI, b. Salina, Sicily, Italy; d. Sydney, Australia; m. MAN LAUDARI; d. Sydney, Australia.
92. ix.   VINCENZINO COLLORAFI, b. Salina, Sicily, Italy; d. Salina, Sicily, Italy.


63. CONCETTA11 COLLORAFFI (DOMENICO10, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born 1873 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia, and died March 15, 1967 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia. She married SALVADORE PISCITELLO October 19, 1896 in Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia. He was born in Santa Agata Di Militello,, Sicily.

Notes for CONCETTA COLLORAFFI:
We know of Cencetta & Salvatore from their marriage records in the civil records of Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia. My father remembers his cousins, Rosalia, Angelo and Domenico Piscitello. We see that Rosalia goes back and forth from Sant' Agata Di Miliello several times, as we find her name in the Ellis Island records. On one return trip on the ship "Nord America" arriving in the port of New York on June 11, 1906, when Rosalia was then 8 years old, she comes from Sant' Agata Di Militello with Giuseppe and Carlo Colloraffi - ages 19 and 17 years. We suspect that these are Concetta's cousins. A number of Piscitello's from Sant' Agata Di Militello come with them: Marianna, age 12; Guiseppe, age 4; Carmela, age 15; and Antonino, age 10. At the present we do not know their relationship to Cencetta or Salvatore.

More About SALVADORE PISCITELLO and CONCETTA COLLORAFFI:
Marriage: October 19, 1896, Sant' Agata Di Militello, Sicilia
     
Children of CONCETTA COLLORAFFI and SALVADORE PISCITELLO are:
  i.   ROSALIA12 PISCITELLO, b. Abt. 1898, Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
  Notes for ROSALIA PISCITELLO:
Rosalia is the oldest daughter of Concetta. The ship manifest for the Nord America indicates that she came to the USA with her grandparents, Domenico and Giuseppa, when she was three years old and arrived in New York, from Palermo, Sicily, Italy on October 18, 1901. She lived in the Bronx, New York with her grandparents - Domenico and Giuseppa at 1882 Barnes Ave. Later, she lived with her Uncle Vincenzo. Rosalia was well educated and taught languages at Hunter University in New York. This is an example of a woman leaving Sicily, and rising above the status that would have been offered her had she remained with her parents. She often went back to Sant' Agata to visit her parents and 10 or 11 siblings. She brought two brothers, Domenico (a diamond cutter) and Angelo (a shoemaker) to New York. Mildred Colloraffi, wife of her cousin, Domenico, said that she married a man who was in real estate and became quite wealthy.

My father, Domenico, remembers Rose fondly, and was always proud of her achievements in the USA and interested in her visits back to Sicily. He said that Rose had cousins who lived in Switzerland, and this was a link back to the Alps story that the Colloraffi family had come from the Alps. Biscitello is an unusual name in Sant' Agata di Militello, and it is possible that cousins on her father's side lived in the Alps. However, my guess is that, when my dad was small, he saw a picture of a Sicilian cousin in the mountains of Sicily.

  ii.   DOMENICO PISCITELLO, b. Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
  Notes for DOMENICO PISCITELLO:
Domenico Biscitello was a diamond cutter by trade. His oldest sister, Rosalia, lived in New York, taught languages at Hunter University, and would visit her 10 or 11 siblings in Sant' Agata on occassion. She brought Domenico to New York. My grandmother, Maria Modica Colloraffi had one carat earrings, a two carat diamond ring and a four carat diamond ring. These were inherited by my the children of Josephine ColloraffiJackson, her daughter. My father, Domenico, has fond memories of him and was proud of his achievements in the USA

  iii.   ANGELO PISCITELLO, b. Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia.
  Notes for ANGELO PISCITELLO:
Angelo came to New York. My father said that his sister, Rosilia, who taught languages at Hunter College and was brought to the USA by her grandparents, Domenico and Giuseppa, and then lived with her Uncle Vincenzo in the Bronx, would visit her parents in Sicily and arranged to have Angelo come to New York. He was a shoemaker and made ballet shoes for the best ballerinas.

  iv.   ABOUT 9 OTHER PISCITELLOS.


64. BIAGIO11 COLLORAFFI (DOMENICO10, MAESTRO BIAGIO9, GAETENO8, BIAGIO7, PADRE6, ANTONINO5, DOMENICO4 CULLURAFI, PLACIDO3, DON2, COLOROFE1) was born October 01, 1875 in Sant' Agata di Militello, Sicilia, and died Bef. 1947 in New York, USA.

Notes for BIAGIO COLLORAFFI:
We know very little about Biagio at this time. We have his birth records from the civil records of Sant' Agata Di Militello. We also know, from the Ellis Island records, that he entered New York in 1905, at the age of 30. He seems to be burried in the same grave with his brother, Vincenzo. I also believe that he was a tailor, as was Vincenzo. In the business directory for the Bronx, in 1913, there is a "John Colloraffi" listed as a tailor at the home at 1882 Barnes Ave., which we know was the home of his parents, and his sister, Giuseppa (Jose) and her husband and many children. There is a picture of it in this record. I believe that a picture, send to me as a picture of Vincenzo, my grandfather, is really his brother, Biagio, and I have put it here.
     
Child of BIAGIO COLLORAFFI is:
  i.   TERESA12 COLLORAFFI.
  Notes for TERESA COLLORAFFI:
Teresa Colloraffi (spelled Collusoffi on the form) was married in Bronx, N.Y. June 26, 1926. Because only Domenico, Biagio, and Vincenzo were in New York, at this time, from the family of Domenico and Maria Teresa, I have place this Teresa with Biagio. Record # 2274 (the last 4 could be a 7) Teresa would have been too young to be a child of Domenico



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