CERINI Family History, Introduction
- Introduction
• Early Cerini Families of Giumaglio
• Other Cerinis in America - Part I - 1st Generation: Antonio Cerini (I)1 (->1671)
- Part II - 2nd Generation: Giovanni Antonio Cerini (II)2 (~1639-1698)
- Part III - 3rd Generation: Antonio Cerini (III)3 (1682-1744)
- Part IV - 4th Generation: Giovanni Antonio Cerini (IV)4 (1712-1758)
- Part V - 5th Generation: Antonio Cerini (V)5 (1738-<1805)
- Part VI - 6th Generation: Giovanni Antonio Cerini (VI)6 (~1767-<1817)
and Pietro Antonio Cerini6 (1769-1859) - Part VII - 7th Generation: Giacomo Pietro Cerini7 (1800-1860)
and Giuseppe Cerini7 (1803-<1865)
• Strozzi-Cerini DNA Analysis - Part VII - 8th Generation: Giovanni Battista Cerini8 (1834-1929)
and Maria Orsola Cerini8 (1839-1886) - Part IX - 9th Generation: Aurelia (Cerini) Malugani9 (1868-1948)
- Part X - 10th Generation
- Giumaglio Overview (Parish Reconstruction and Historical Background)
Introduction
This work on the Cerini families of Giumaglio began with two questions. Hearing that the parents of our immigrant grandmother Aurelia (Cerini) Malugani9 were both Cerinis, I wanted to know how they might be related. The other question was how were the Cerinis of Tomales Bay related? From the start, I knew the search for these answers would be full of twists and turns and that pretty much everyone in the little town of Giumaglio would be related to each other, so I decided that in order to tie all the Cerinis of California together I would have to reconstruct the entire parish of Giumaglio.
Once started, and working backward, solving the first question came fairly quickly--Aurelia's parents were second cousins. Two years of work tied most all the other Cerini families together over ten generations, but ultimately did not answer how our Cerini branch and the Tomales branch connected through their direct paternal lines. The closest I found was that one their early Cerini grandfathers married one of our early Cerini aunts in 1720 and that any connection those two might have was more than four generations further back.
Early Cerini Families of Giumaglio
The name Cerini (also in Ticinese dialect as Cerinói and Cerinái) is believed to come from the word candle (cero, in Italian). The candle is prominently featured in the family coat of arms held by descendants of Pietro Cerini, who still live in Valle Maggia. Their emigrant kin in America settled in Tomales Bay, California.
Another Cerini (Cerrini) family is found in Riveo, 5 kilometers upriver, however, I suspect that family may be branch of the Cerri family of the neighboring village of Someo and unrelated to the Cerinis of Giumaglio.
The first parish census of 1692 presented seven separate Cerini households and eight more households with Cerini wives. The heads of these households are subgrouped here by census page references and then in birth order for comparison. Others who died before 1692 have also been added for comparison, but lack page references:
| X./2C. | Giovanni Cerini (Sr.) | (1618-1619) | 26 Mar 1696 | (70) |
| X2./2C | Giovanni Cerini (Jr.) | (1649-1650) | (1703-1706) | (50s) |
| 4C. | Giovanni "Muscini" Cerini | (1645) | 30 Aug 1719 | (67) |
| 4E. | Guglielma (Cerini) Pedrotti | (1664-1665) | -- | -- |
| (A.) | Pietro Cerini• | -- | (< 1671) | -- |
| A2./13A. | Giovanni Cerini• | (~1634) | (1709-1717) | (70s) |
| (A2X)/5C. | Pietro Cerini, Magistro | (1663-1664) | (> 1695) | (> 31) |
| (1.) | Antonio Cerini (I)1 | -- | (< 1692) | -- |
| 11./8E. | Giovanni Antonio Cerini (II)2 | (1639-1640) | 5 Oct 1698 | (60) |
| 111./16C. | Giovanna (Cerini) Pozzi | (1662) | 2 Mar 1700 | (38) |
| 112./16B. | Maria (Cerini) Pozzi | (1663) | 8 Mar 1704 | (40) |
| 8F-9A. | Maria (Cerini) Sartori• | (1644-1645) | 18 Apr 1695 | (50) |
| (1.) | Antonio Cerini (I)1 | -- | (< 1692) | -- |
| 1A./10B. | Giovanni Cerini | -- | (1682-1692) | -- |
| 1B./10C. | Giovanni Giacomo Cerini | (1632-1633) | 8 Jan 1693 | (60) |
| 113./10D. | Domenica (Cerini) Giumini | (1664-1665) | 18 Oct 1700 | (35) |
- Giovanni Cerini (Sr.), born about 1619 and likely died on March 26, 1696, was the eldest of the parish in 1692 at the age of 73. He was a widower with two sons, one of whom died before 1692 and left two daughters. Giovanni's son Giovanni (Jr.) was named as the godfather to Antonio Cerini3 and Giovanna Maria Cristina Pozzi2, who both wed in 1704.
- Giovanni Cerini•, born about 1634, married Domenica Delnotaro, the widow of Giovanni Mazzini. Domenica died in 1693 and Giovanni remarried to Guglielmina Cerini•. Their son Giovanni Pietro Cerini• is the progenitor of the Cerini family of Tomales Bay, California.
- Giovanni "Muscini" Cerini, born about 1645, had five children with his first wife and later married Giovanna Mazzini, and perhaps had two more children.
- Magistro Pietro Cerini, born about 1664, married Margherita Petanga of Prato, Val Lavizzara. His title of "Magistro" was noted in a baptism record of 1692. No further records follow after 1692.
Cerini wives included:
- Maria Cerini•, born about 1645, married Giacomo Sartori•.
- Maria Cerini, born about 1663, married Alessio Pozzi. She died by 1705 and Alessio remarried to Maria Catterina Lesina.
- Giovanna Cerini, born about 1653, married Giovanni Pozzi. She died in 1711.
- Giovanna Cerini, born about 1662, married Zano Pozzi.
- Giovanna Cerini, born about 1668, married Don Carlo Antonio Pozzi, the town doctor. They took care of Anna Cerini, the orphaned daughter of the late Giacomo Cerini, and therefore perhaps the granddaughter of Giovanni Cerini (Sr.). Anna went on to marry Pietro Paolo Gaspari.
- Giovanna Cerini, born about 1673, married Pietro Antonio Marca. She died in 1726 and Pietro went on to marry Maria Lesina and later Domenica Catterina Cerini.
- Domenica Cerini, born about 1663, married Giacomo Giumini (Sr.) and had one son, Giovanni, by 1692. Their son Giovanni later became a notary and don of Giumaglio. Domenica died on October 18, 1700, and Giacomo went on to remarry to Maria Lafranchi.
- Guglielmina Cerini, born about 1665, married Giovanni Maria Pedrotti. Guglielmina was enumerated in 1698 with the orphaned Cerini-Camani sons.
Other Cerini Branches in America
Note: This section is being replaced by a new section of Select Pedigrees of Valle Maggians. If your ancestor was here before and now is gone, check there.Marin/Sonoma Coast
Cerini families from Ticino are found along the coast of Marin and Sonoma counties from Point Reyes Station and Tomales to Sea View/Salt Point. Although not treated here, noted familes and individuals include:
- Battista Cerini8 (born ~1833) and John Cerini (born ~1842), found in 1880 at Nicasio Township in the coastal hills between Point Reyes and Novato, Marin County; Battista8 is suspected to have been our ancestor.
- Angelo Cerini (born September 1851), immigrated in 1869 and settled in Plantation, Salt Point Township, Sonoma County, by 1880, Westport Township, Mendocino County, by 1900, then moved inland to Ukiah by 1910, and then down to Petaluma by 1920 and Lakeville by 1930; noted in 1930 as a cousin to Martin G. Pedrotti (1887-1955), son of James Pedrotti (b. ~1851), who hailed from Giumaglio. Angelo is believed to be the one born on September, 13, 1850 of the Giovanni Pietro Cerini line.
- Joseph Peter Cerini (1845-1919) & Angelina Maria (Piezzi) Cerini, believed to be from Valle Maggia, who immigrated by 1881 and settled in Bodega by 1890, Tomales by 1900, and Petaluma by 1910. He is also believed to be of the Giovanni Pietro Cerini line. His descendants allegedly include Dora Cerini and Giuseppe Gasparini of Giumaglio in Valle Maggia
- Ponsie Cirini (born November 1878), immigrated in 1895 and settled in Ocean Township by 1900
- Giovanni Nunzio & Angelina (Piezzi) Cerini of Giumaglio, parents of:
- Isidoro (1883-1982), immigrated in 1901, settled in Tomales by 1908, and later in life lived in Petaluma
- America (1886-1908), immigrated in 1906 and died of consumption a year later at the age of 18
- Romeo (1888-1881), immigrated in 1901, settled in Tomales in 1903, and later in life lived in Petaluma; Romeo is said to have been sponsored by cousin Emil Cerini-Gasparini (1877-1945)
- Adele (b. 1884-1885), immigrated in 1904 and died soon after arrival in California
- Maria Genazzi (1890-1994), remained in Ticino
- Giocondo (1894-1995), immigrated in 1910, settled in Tomales and later in life lived in Petaluma
- Arcangelo (1896-1940), immigrated in 1914, settled in Tomales and Santa Rosa
- Ignacio remained in Ticino
Santa Rosa
- G. Cerini (born ~1863) and worked as a stone cutter in Santa Rosa in 1910
- Julia M. Cerini (born May 1880) and worked in a cannery in Santa Rosa in 1900; perhaps the daughter of John Cerini (b. 1854, as noted below) by his first wife Julia A.
San Joaquin Valley
- Angelina (Tomasini Cerini) Nesper (born August 1872), a Cerini widow/ex-wife who had settled in Fresno by 1900
- George Cerini (age unknown) who immigrated in 1882 and was institutionalized at Stockton State Hospital in 1900
Washington
- Peter V. Cerini (~1872-[1940]) & Santina L. Cerini (1881-1977), brother of Luigi, immigrated 1889
- Luigi "Louis" Cerini (~1886), brother of Peter V., immigrated 1902
- Peter & Luigi are recalled to be cousins of Enrico "Henry" F. Cerini/Cerine
Giumaglio, Ticino
- Antoni Cerini (~1844) & Maria (Felice) Cerini, parents of:
- Severino "Sem" Cerini (1879-1961), immigrated in 1897, died in Bakersfield
- Enrico "Henry" F. Cerini/Cerine (1881-1960), immigrated in 1899, married Olga Rosalia Cerini
- Corrina Cerini, remained in Switzerland
- Malena Cerini, remained in Switzerland
