I've been going through the Alberobello marriage and birth records from 1866-1900 for about 2 weeks now. I've found quite a few people and am now at the point where I can't keep names and generations straight. I've gone back 5 generations now on the Bini side and know the names of my great-great-great grandparents (Giuseppe Bini and Cosma Lippolis) and I've gone back 6 generations on the Annese side and now know the names of my great-great-great-great grandfathers (Francesco Annese and Emanuele De Leonardis). I'm hoping to learn the names of their wives in a few weeks when my next batch of microfilm rolls in.
I found the marriage record for Pietro Bini and Antonia Annese almost immediately after beginning my search through the marriage records (1877-1900). They were married May 12, 1879, nearly 10 years before Cosimo was born. Their parents were listed as Giuseppe Bini and Cosma Lippolis (deceased) and Giuseppe Annese and Maria Dilonardo. Pietro was 30 and Antonia was 24 and both held the occupation of contadino(a), or farmer. Pietro was born in and a resident of Alberobello, his parents currently residing in Monopoli (Coreggia, perhaps?), while Antonia and her family were from and living in Alberobello. The record lists the dates that their marriage banns were announced in both Alberobello and Monopoli (*to be translated).
As expected, Cosimo didn't show up in the birth records in 1889
because, as I mentioned before, he apparently lived in Coreggia, which
was part of Monopoli until 1895 when it then became a frazione of
Alberobello. Because his brother Francesco was born in 1891 I expected
him to be absent too, yet surprisingly enough, he was there. I don't
know what that's all about. Maybe they moved out of Coreggia and back to
the city of Alberobello... In 1895, their sister Maria Addolorata was
born. In her ship record it is estimated that her year of birth was
1900, so I don't know if the record is 5 years off (most likely) or if
the Maria born in 1895 died as an infant and they had another daughter
around 1900 (I didn't find a Maria Addolorata Bini born in 1900 or any
other year in between). I'm going to assume this is the correct Maria
and that the ship record was inaccurate, like they generally tend to be.
Because (what I believe to be) Cosimo's ship record indicates that he
came to the US to be with his brother Giuseppe Bini, I half hoped to
come across his birth record (I didn't), but seeing as he was most
likely older than Cosimo and Cosimo was absent, Giuseppe will probably
be in the Coreggia civil records also. No siblings were found before
1891 or after 1895.
Because Pietro and Antonia were married in 1879 and Cosimo wasn't born until 1889, it is probably safe to assume that they had 2-4 kids in between. Since I believe he may have had a brother Giuseppe and I now know that Pietro's (and Antonia's for that matter) father's name was Giuseppe, it is likely that their first born son was Giuseppe. Because naming traditions dictate that the first son be named after the father's father and the second be named after the mother's father and both fathers were named Giuseppe, I'm not sure what they would have named their second son. Until the Coreggia civil records arrive, I can only speculate. Perhaps Cosimo was named after his father's mother Cosma. Did he also have an older sister named Cosma? We know that Maria Addolorata was named for Antonia's mother, so it can be assumed that they had no more than one other daughter before her. Hopefully the Coreggia civil records will contain the missing Binis and I will get my answers in just a few more weeks.
Up next: tying in the other Binis and Anneses of Alberobello
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