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BALZARI Family History

November 2017
Italian and Latin Names
Parish records, from which most of this information comes, is primarily written in Latin, while civil records are primarily written in Italian. Names that have only been observed in Latin but have either been converted to Italian or left in Latin are rendered in italics.

What little is known of the Balzari family of Cevio is derived from parish records in Someo, where Anna Maria (Balzari) Tognazzini2 married in 1824 and lived. The Balzaris are also native to Bignasco, 2.5 kilometers upriver from Cevio.


Giacomo Maria BALZARI1 (->1799)

1.May 2017 Giacomo Maria Balzari1 was from Cevio, Ticino, Switzerland. From parish records about his daughter in Someo, we learn that he had at least three children:

11. Marianna [Dorotea] Balzari2 (28 Nov 1770) (> 1804) (> 22)
1X. Giovanni Battista Francesco Balzari (< 1788) (> 1797) (> 9)
1Y. Maria Domenica Balzari (< 1790) (> 1799) (> 9)

Giovanni Battista Francesco and Domenica were named as godparents to Anna Maria's children, Giovanni Battista Tognazzini[Bap 1797] and Anna Maria Tognazzini[Bap 1799], respectively.

Sources
  • Bap 1797: 9 Aug 1797 Baptism, Sancti Placido ed Eustachio, Someo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland
  • Bap 1799: 4 Dec 1799 Baptism, Sancti Placido ed Eustachio, Someo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland

Marianna (BALZARI) TOGNAZZINI2 (<1782->1804)

11.May 2017 Marianna [Dorotea] Balzari2 (also recorded as "Anna Maria"[Bap 1797]) was reportedly baptized on November 28, 1770, in Cevio, Ticino, Switzerland. She married Giovanni Domenico Tognazzini (Jr.)3 of Someo, about 7 kilometers downriver. They had at least three children:

11. Giovanni Battista Tognazzini 9 Aug 1797 13 Aug 1836 (39)
12. Anna Maria Tognazzini 4 Dec 1799 2 Feb 1803 (3)
13. Marianna Francesca (Giovanna) Tognazzini4 8 Mar 1804 31 Jan 1876 (71)

Marianna and Domenico were wed on September 9, 1793, in Marianna's home Church of San Giovanni Battista in Cevio. Witnesses to their marriage were Giovanni Respini, the church custodian, and Giovanni Battista Balzari, Marianna's likely brother.[Mar 1793]

May 2017Maria and Domenico chose the following godparents for their children:

  1. Battista: Giovanni Battista Francesco Balzari, Maria's brother, and the widow Maria Maddalena (Comistò) Righetti[Bap 1797]; and
  2. Anna Maria: Giuseppe Caporgno and Maria Domenica Balzari, Maria's sister.[Bap 1799]
  3. Marianna Francesca: Giovanni Giacomo Righetti and Margherita Righetti.[Bap 1804]
Sources
  • Mar 1793: 9 Sep 1793 Marriage, San Giovanni Battista, Cevio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland
  • Bap 1797: 9 Aug 1797 Baptism, Sancti Placido ed Eustachio, Someo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland
  • Bap 1799: 4 Dec 1799 Baptism, Sancti Placido ed Eustachio, Someo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland
  • Bap 1804: 8 Mar 1804 Baptism, Sancti Placido ed Eustachio, Someo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland