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Note: Notes for Rosalia "Rosa" Marsala Marchese: She was named after her mother's mother, Rosalia. In addition to Rosa she also used the nicknames of Rose and Rosie in the United States.
Italian women of the time kept their full birth name for life. They did not take on their husband's last name when they got married. However, after Rosalia Marsala immigrated to the United States, she took on a new last name of Marks. Apparently her husband Luigi deliberately Americanized his last name from Marchese to Marks.
Rosalia Marsala and Vincenza Marsala, both included in this genealogy chart, were sisters. They married brothers Luigi Marchese and Pietro Munisteri, respectively. About six or seven years after Vincenza married Pietro Munisteri, he changed his last name to Marchese.
A photo of Rosalia Marsala's birth certificate, in Italian, including a translation: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/Y13R2WCeVvmXb9iW9">Photo</a>
The top half of Rosalia's birth certificate says:
ACTS OF BIRTH
The year one thousand eight hundred eighty on the day twenty six of December, at the hour before noon ten, in the town hall.
In front of me, (me being a higher official, the person who made this birth certificate, usually the mayor) appeared (a person named) Paolo Carenza, Town Secretary Delegate and Officer of the Civil Status of the town of Casteltermini, (who said that the following person had) appeared (in front of Paolo, previously), Giuseppe Marsala, thirty four years, a sulphur miner housed in Casteltermini, (who) declared to me that at twelve noon of the day twenty five of the current month, in the house on Jesus and Mary Street, that Maria Farba, his wife, a stapler, his cohabitant in Casteltermini, gave birth to a baby of the feminine sex, that he presented to me, (Giuseppe showed the baby to Paolo) whose name is Rosalia. ...................
On February 27, 1900, an official person looked through old records and located that 19 year old document. On the left side, under Rosalia's name, he wrote that Rosalia had married Luigi Marchese on January 7, 1900.
Rosalia and her three children left their home in Casteltermini, Sicily, Italy for the last time in January of 1910. Rosalia, her son Ferdinando, 7; daughter Domenica, 4; and daughter Maria, age 10 months, boarded the <i>S.S. Konig Albert</i> in Naples, Italy on January twenty first. They arrived in New York city on February third, eight months after Rosalia's husband Luigi had arrived in New York city.
A photo of part of one page of that ship's manifest, showing the four family members on the bottom, passengers number 24 through 27 on that page: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/Amgn56GZNr1mT723A">Photo</a>
Passenger 24 was "Marsala, Rosaria" (but her first name was actually Rosalia). She was 29 years old.
Passenger 25 was "Son Marchese, Ferdinando", age nine (actually seven). He later went by the name Fred.
Passenger 26 was "Son Marchese", Domenico, age four. But the child was actually a daughter, Domenica, known as "Mamie".
Passenger 27 was "Daughter Marchese, Marie", age 11/12 (eleven months). (But she was actually 10 months and 10 days old on the day they arrived in New York).
All four were born in, and their last residence was in, "C. Termini" (Casteltermini, Sicily). Their destination was "W Va Thomas" (Thomas, West Virginia). The person they were going to meet was Rosalia's husband Luigi Marchese. They arrived in the U.S. with $10 in their possession.
The three children were named according to proper Italian custom. A couple's first son was given the name of the father's father; the first daughter was given the name of the father's mother. The second son was given the name of the mother's father; the second daughter was given the name of the mother's mother. In this case, Ferdinando, then Domenica, then Maria. Italian naming practices continued when the couple had their second son on June 8, 1918. He was named Joseph, after Rosa's father, Guiseppe. Joseph died May 5, 1919.
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