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Piezzi Family History, Part II

Maria Maddalena (PIEZZI) SCAMONI (1675-1718)

11C. Maria Maddalena Piezzi was born on April 8, 1675, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and baptized the following day. Her godparents were named as Giovanni Pozzi and Giovanna Gaspari.^{[Bap 1675]} Maria married Giovanni Giacomo Scamoni (II), a widower who had one surviving son. Maria and Giacomo had one daughter together:

--	Giacomo Scamoni (III)	(1697-1698?)	(< 1743)	(< 45)
11C1.	Maria Domenica Scamoni	22 Nov 1713	--	--

When Maria was but 2 years old, Giovanni Ambrogio Torriano, Bishop of Como, held mass confirmation ceremonies for parishes in the valley at Maggia, 4 kilometers downriver, and Someo, 2 kilometers upriver. Maria was confirmed at the Church of Santi Placido ed Eustachio in Someo on May 31, 1677, at which time her godmother was named as Giovanna Giumini.^{[Con 1677]}

Maria lived with her parents through at least 1703, however, she and younger brothers Pietro Paolo and Carlo Antonio were all marked as "absent" in the parish census of 1698.^{[Cen 1692-1703]}

Giacomo, and his elder brother Giovanni, resided in Giumaglio as early as 1692.^{[Cen 1692]} Giacomo first married Giovanna Maria Pozzi by 1696 and had a daughter named Domenica, however, Domenica died before 1702.^{[Bap 1700, Cen 1698,1702]} Wife Giovanna died on March 15, 1705, while reportedly at the age of "about 44 years."^{[Cen 1703, Dth 1705]}

Maria and Giacomo wed at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta March 8, 1707 (or perhaps it was in June, as the marriage record was entered between those of June 7 and 20). Recorded witnesses were Giovanni Giacomo Lesina and Giovanni Pietro Bonetti.^{[Mar 1707]} The couple continued to live with Giacomo's elder brother Giovanni after their marriage.^{[Cen 1709]}

Maria and Giacomo chose Giovanni Battista Giumini and Mrs. Domenica (Pedrotti) Giovanotti as godparents for daughter Domenica.^{[Bap 1713]}

Maria Maddalena (Piezzi) Scamoni (as "Maria, former wife of Jacobi Scamonini") died on May 28, 1718, at her home in Giumaglio. She was recorded to be 43 years old and was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1718]}

Giovanni Giacomo Scamoni died in Giumaglio, probably around 1725. His death record was transcribed in 1729 by Father Giovanni Angelo Broggini, the successor to Father Remigio Broggini, who presided at Giacomo's burial in the cemetery next to the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. The date was not recorded, but Father Remigio Broggini served as the parish vicar from November 1724 until about October 1725. Giacomo was reportedly "about 60 years" old.^{[Dth 1729*]}

Pietro Paolo PIEZZI^• (1677-1741)

11D. Pietro Paolo Piezzi^• was born on December 22, 1677, in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland, and baptized the following day. His godparents were named as Giovanni Pedrotti, possibly his maternal uncle, and Mrs. Giovanna (Beltrami) Giumini^{1 [Bap 1677]}, his future mother-in-law. Pietro was married twice. He first married Maria Giumini, his godmother's daughter, and had one daughter before her early death in 1717. Four months afterward Pietro remarried to Domenica Marchese^•, who was about 13 years younger than Pietro, and had as many as six more children:

11D1.	Giovanna Maria Piezzi	18 Feb 1712	15 Jan 1750	(37)
11D2.	Pietro Giacomo Piezzi	28 Aug 1721	3 Sep 1721	(6 days)
11D3.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	6 Sep 1723	1 Oct 1723	(3 weeks)
11D4.	Giovanna (Anna) Maria Piezzi	4 Nov 1724	31 Jan 1773	(48)
11D5.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	(6 Sep) 1727	19 Oct 1741	(14)
11D6.	Giacomo Piezzi•	23 Oct 1729	(1788-1791)	(59-62)
11D7.	Maria Anna Piezzi	(14) Jun 1735	--	--

In 1698, then age 22, and through 1703, Pietro was counted as "absent," perhaps working far from home.^{[Cen 1692-1703]} By 1709 he returned home, but had not yet married by the age of 30.^{[Cen 1709]}

Perhaps in late 1709 or 1710, during a time in which no marriage records were recorded in the parish of Giumaglio, Pietro and Maria wed. Some five years earlier, Pietro's younger half-sister Giacomina² married Maria's younger brother Giacomo³. A year or more after Pietro and Maria's wedding, their daughter arrived.^{[Bap 1712]}

Maria (Giumini) Piezzi (recorded simply as "Maria, former wife of Petri Piezzi") died on December 3, 1717, at their home in Giumaglio. Maria was reported to be "about 33 years" old, but was 39.^{[Dth 1717]}

Four months after Maria's death, Pietro remarried to Domenica Marchese in mid or late April 1718. Domenica was curiously recorded as "Maria Terina" (at that time the names Terini and Marchese were used interchangeably) and the specific date was not recorded but it followed the three traditional declarations on March 27, April 3, and April 10. Before their marriage they obtained dispensation for the impediment of third equal degrees of consanguinity (i.e., first cousins) from the Nuncio to Switzerland in Lucerne. (The exact connection of their relationship is not yet known.) Recorded witnesses were Giacomo Piezzi¹, Pietro's father; Giovanni Terini (Marchese); and Giovanni Giacomo Giumini³, Pietro's brother-in-law and brother of Pietro's first wife.^{[Mar 1718]}

Daughter Maria (Giovanna Maria) was confirmed on June 12, 1719, when Giuseppe Olgiati, Bishop of Como, held confirmation ceremonies for parishes in the valley at the Church of San Maurizio in Maggia, 4 kilometers downriver. Maria's sponsoring godmother was named as Giovanna Maria Delnotaro of Coglio.^{[Con 1719]}

Pietro and Domenica had six more children together. The Piezzi family was recorded in 1741 to include him, his eldest daughter Maria, age 30, and then followed by his wife Domenica and their four children together, reflecting that Maria was from his first marriage.^{[Cen 1741]}

Pietro and his wives chose the following godparents for their children:

1. Giovanna Maria: Giovanni Giacomo Giumini³, Maria's younger brother (no godmother was recorded)^{[Bap 1712]};
2. Pietro Giacomo: Giovanni Antonio Marchese, likely Domenica's elder brother, and Maria Pozzi, likely Pietro's sister-in-law^{[Bap 1721]}
3. Domenica (elder): Carlo Marchese and Domenica Piezzi, Pietro's younger sister^{[Bap 1723]};
4. Giovanna (baptized as "Anna"): Giacomo Piezzi, Pietro's younger brother, and Giovanna Maria Marchese^{[Bap 1724]};
5. Domenica (younger): Domenico Piezzi, Pietro's younger brother, and Domenica Marc[hese], perhaps Domenica's cousin^{[Bap 1727]};
6. Giacomo: Giovanni Giacomo Felice Pedrotti and Anna Maria Piezzi, Pietro's younger half-sister^{[Bap 1729]}
7. Maria Anna: Giovanni Bartolomeo Marchese and Maria [illegible] Giumini, one of the daughters of Giovanni Giacomo Giumini³.^{[Bap 1735]}

Pietro was named as godfather to Giacomo Pietro Giumini^{[Bap 1725]} and Maria Catterina Giumini.^{[Bap 1726]}

Pietro Paolo Piezzi died on September 13, 1741, at his home in Giumaglio. He was buried the following day in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Pietro was recorded in both the 1741 parish census and his death records as being "about 60 years" old^{[Cen 1741, Dth 1741A]}, but was 63.^{[Cen 1692-1703]}

A month after Pietro's death, an unnamed daughter of "about 18 years," presumed to be Domenica, age 14, died at their home in Giumaglio. She was also buried the following day in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1741B]}

Domenica continued on with son Giacomo and his wife Maria Teresa Sartori living with her in 1748.^{[Cen 1748]} She and Giovanni Bartolomeo Marchese (perhaps her younger brother) were named as godparents to Antonio Giovanotti.^{[Bap 1745]}

Domenica (Marchese) Piezzi died on November 25, 1750, at her home in Giumaglio. She was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Domenica was 57 years old.^{[Dth 1750]}

Giacomina (PIEZZI) GIUMINI³ (~1689-1743)

11H. Giacomina Piezzi³ was born about 1689, or perhaps around 1686, probably in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland, yet no baptism records has been found for her in the parish. She married Giovanni Giacomo Giumini (II)² and had as many as 10 children over the span of 26 years and into her mid-40s:

(11HA)	Giovanni Antonio Giumini	(1704-1705)	9 Nov 1705	(Infancy)
11HB.	Giovanni Giacomo Giumini (III)	(16) Sep 1708	(> 1709)	(Childhood)
11HC.	Giacomo Pietro Giumini4	8 Nov 1710	6 Dec 1751	(41)
11HD.	(Giovanna) Maria Anna Giumini	(2 Sep 1715)	16 Nov 1742	(27)
11HE.	Domenica Giumini	(22) Aug 1718	--	--
11HF.	Giovanni Giacomo Giumini (III)	17 Jan 1720	20 Mar 1720	(2 mos.)
11HG.	Giovanna Maria Giumini	18 Jun 1721	28 Feb 1755	(33)
11HH.	Maria Domenica Giumini	13 Dec 1724	14 Feb 1729	(4)
11HI.	Maria Domenica Giumini	11 Feb 1730	(Infancy)	(Infancy)
11HJ.	Maria Domenica Giumini	13 Oct 1731	6 Aug 1762	(30)

Giacomina's age is only estimated from parish censuses, in which she was enumerated between her half-brother Carlo Antonio, who was about 3 or 4 years older, and brother Giacomo, who was about 3 years younger, which would put her birth between about 1687 and 1688; however, there was also a brother Domenico, who was born on January 8, 1688, died at the age of 6, but was apparently not accurately recorded in the 1692 parish census. That fact would shift Giacomina's likely birth year to either 1686 or 1689.^{[Cen 1692-1703]} After Giacomina's marriage, she and Giacomo were recorded to be ages 20 and 22 in 1709, which seems to confirm her birth around 1689 (less any fudging of her age).^{[Cen 1709]}

Giacomina and Giacomo chose the following as godparents for their children:

1. Antonio: no baptism record found in Giumaglio;^{[Dth 1705]}
2. Giacomo (elder): Giovanni Giumini (Jr.) and Giovanna (family name illegible)^{[Bap 1708]}
3. Giacomo Pietro³: Giacomo Giumini and Mrs. Maria (Giumini) Piezzi, Giacomina's sister-in-law^{[Bap 1710]};
4. Giovanna: Giovanni Antonio "Terinnus" (Marchese?) and Mrs. Maddalena (Ianzi/Ianzini) Giumini^{[Bap 1715A]};
5. Domenica (1^st): Pietro Cristoforo Pedrotti and Anna Maria Piezzi, Giacomina's younger sister^{[Bap 1718]};
6. Giacomo (younger): Giovanni Giumini and Giovanna Maria Gasparini^{[Bap 1720]};
7. Giovanna: Giacomo Tomaso Pozzi and Giovanna Maria Giumini, likely a cousin of Giacomo^{[Bap 1721]};
8. Domenica (2^nd): Giacomo Piezzi, Giacomina's younger brother, and Maria Marchese^{[Bap 1724]};
9. Domenica (3^rd): Pietro Gaspari and Mrs. Domenica (Piezzi) Lesina, Giacomina's younger sister^{[Bap 1730]}; and
10. Domenica (4^th): Giovanni Bonetti, Giacomina's brother-in-law, and Maria Lesina.^{[Bap 1731]}

Giacomina was named as the godmother to Giovanni Giacomo Tomaso Pedrotti, whose father, Pietro Cristoforo later became the godfather to Giacomina's daughter Domenica.^{[Bap 1707, 1718]}

Giovanni Giacomo Giumini died on May 18, 1742, at the family home in Giumaglio. He was buried the following day in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Giacomo was recorded to be "about 50 years" old^{[Dth 1766]}, but was about 55 years old.

Giacomina (Piezzi) Giumini died eight months later on January 30, 1743, in Giumaglio.^{[Dth 1743]} She was also about 55 years old.

After Giacomo's and Giacomina's deaths, Giovanna Maria Rusca gave birth to daughter Giuseppa in Cevio. This curiously came right about 9 months after Giacomo's death and a month after Giacomina's, suggesting that Giacomo and Giacomina had separated or divorced between 1741 and 1742. Giovanna and Giuseppa settled in Giumaglio by 1748 and were recorded as "wife of the late Joannis Jacobi Giumini" and daughter.^{[Cen 1748,1760]}

Giacomo PIEZZI (II) (1691-1764)

11I. Giacomo Piezzi (II) was born on July 12, 1691, in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland, and baptized on July 15. His godparents were named as Pietro Bonetti and Mrs. Maddalena (Ianzi) Giumini.^{[Bap 1691];} Giacomo married Maria Maddalena "Maria" Pozzi, daughter of the late Don Giovanni Pozzi, Notaio and Chancellor of Coglio, and the widow of Don Giacomo Pietro Pozzi, surgeon of Giumaglio. Maddalena had two daughters with Pozzi but neither appears to have survived to her remarriage. Giacomo and Maddalena had as many as eight children:

11I1.	Giacomo Piezzi (III)	25 Aug 1719	24 Feb 1744	(24)
11I2.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	27 Aug 1722	17 Mar 1751	(28)
11I3.	Maria Maddalena Piezzi	15 Nov 1724	13 Mar 1762	(37)
11I4.	Maria Apollonia Piezzi	(8) Jul 1729	--	--
11I5.	Maria Anna Piezzi	3 (Sep) 1731	(< 1741)	(< 9)
11I6.	Giovanni Battista Piezzi	25 Jul 1734	10 Feb 1758	(23)
11I7.	Maria Anna Piezzi	21 Sep 1737	24 Mar 1773	(35)
11I8.	Maria Catterina Piezzi	13 May 1740	(< 1748)	(< 8)

Giacomo and Maria chose the following as godparents for their children:

1. Giacomo: Giovanni Antonio Pozzi and Maria Rossetti^{[Bap 1719]};
2. Domenica: Carlo Marchese and Anna Maria Piezzi, Giacomo's younger sister^{[Bap 1722]};
3. Maddalena: Domenico and Domenica Piezzi, Giacomo's younger siblings^{[Bap 1724B]};
4. Apollonia: Giovanni Delnotaro of Coglio and (Mrs.) Giacomina Marchese^{[Bap 1729]};
5. Maria Anna (elder): Giovanni Battista Pozzi and Maria Marcha^{[Bap 1731]};
6. Battista: Giovanni Battista Pozzi of Coglio (Maddalena's nephew and later Vicar of Coglio) and Domenica Marche^{[Bap 1734]};
7. Maria Anna (younger): Don Rodolfo Pozzi and Maria Anna Giumini^{[Bap 1737]}; and
8. Catterina: Giovanni Pietro Bonetti and Maria Catterina Pozzi.^{[Bap 1740]}

Giacomo was named as godfather to niece Giovanna Maria Piezzi^{[Bap 1724A]}; Maria Domenica Giumini^{[Bap 1724C]}; Giuseppe Maria Pozzi^{[Bap 1726]}, his wife's nephew; Maria Teresa Pozzi^{[Bap 1727]}; and niece Maria Lesina.^{[Bap 1729]}

Maria was likely named as the godmother to Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi^{[Bap 1708]}; Giovanni Ludovico Giumini^{[Bap 1712]}; Maria Domenica Delnotaro of Coglio^{[Bap 1721A]}; and Giacomo's nephews Giacomo Pietro Piezzi^{[Bap 1721B]} and Giuseppe Maria Lesina.^{[Bap 1721C]}

In 1741, all but daughter Maddalena were accounted for in the parish census, because she had already married and moved out.^{[Cen 1741]} After seven years, only Battista and Maria Anna remained with their parents, but later Battista's wife and daughter were added to the extended family.^{[Cen 1748]}

Eldest son Giacomo Piezzi (III) died on February 24, 1744, at his parents' home in Giumaglio during a string of four or five adults who died between late January and early March. He was reportedly "about 20 years" old, but may have been as old as 23. He was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1744]}

Following a fire at the church in Coglio on January 24, 1745, Giacomo was named as a witness in the reconstruction of parish baptism and marriage records and did so for three baptisms of his wife's Pozzi family, and for the marriage of Antonio Guglielmetti of Coglio to Maria Catterina Gaspari of Giumaglio (which took place in 1671) and the baptism of Giovanni Delnotaro (1681). Both of these last two were witnessed with Giovanni Pietro Sartori² and took place many years before Giacomo's birth.

Daughter Maria Domenica (Piezzi) Tognini died at the Piezzi family home in Giumaglio on March 17, 1751, following an apparently abrupt illness that necessitated all the last rites be administered that day. She was only 28 years old. She was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1751]}

Maria Maddalena (Pozzi) Piezzi died on February 2, 1754, at her home in Giumaglio. She was the first of a string of seven adults who died between February and April.^{[Dth 1754]} She was in her late 50s. Maddalena was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1754]}

Younger son Battista died four years later on February 10, 1758, the first of a string of six parishioners who died between February and April 1758.^{[Dth 1758]} He left behind his pregnant widow Giovanna Maria (Pozzi) Pedrotti, who had previously been widowed in 1754. She gave birth to their daughter, Maddelena, four months later. Giovanna Maria^• and Maddalena lived with Giacomo for sometime afterward.^{[Cen 1760]} Giovanna went on to marry Giovanni Battista Lesina^• in 1766.

Eldest daughter Maddalena (Piezzi) Pozzi died on March 13, 1762, at her home in Giumaglio, during an apparent malady that took the lives of three adults in a two-week period. The illness likely struck suddenly as all the last rites were given to her on the 10th. She was buried the following day at the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. She was only 37 years old.^{[Dth 1762]}

Giacomo Piezzi (II) died on February 25, 1764, at this home in Giumaglio, following an illness of at least five days. He was 72 years old (although his death record indicated he was 73 and a half years old). Giacomo was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1764]}

Giovanna (PIEZZI) POZZI (1694-~1718)

11J. Giovanna Piezzi was born on June 30, 1694, and baptized a week later on July 6, in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland. Her godparents were named as Giacomo Mirenini and Maria Apollonia Giumini, who may have been cousin.^{[Bap 1694]} Giovanna married Giovanni Antonio Pozzi on May 23, 1715. She was 20 years old and he 24. They had at least one son before her early death:

11J1.

Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi

(2) Feb 1718

--

--

Giovanna and Antonio wed on May 23, 1715, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Recorded witnesses were Giovanni Antonio Pozzi (same name, unknown relation) and Giacomo Sartori.^{[Mar 1715]}

Giovanna was named as the godmother to Maria Catterina Pozzi.^{[Bap 1716]}

Antonio was named as the godfather to Giovanni Pietro Mazzini^{[Bap 1712]} and Maria Bertina Pozzi^•.^{[Bap 1718]}

Giovanna and Antonio named Giovanni Pozzi, apparently Antonio's younger brother, and Anna Maria Piezzi, Giovanna's younger sister, as godparents for Giacomo.^{[Bap 1718]}

Giovanna and son Giacomo may not have lived long after Giacomo's birth, as she was not named as a godmother in any baptism records after Giacomo's birth.

Antonio went on to marry Domenica Ferari by 1720.

Anna Maria (PIEZZI) BONETTI (1698-1742)

11K. Anna Maria Piezzi was born on July 25, 1698, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and baptized the following day. Her godparents where named as Giovanni Giacomo Fedele Caneverini of the neighboring village of Coglio and Maria Pozzi.^{[Bap 1698]} Anna married Giovanni Bonetti on September 7, 1719, and had at least five children, including a pair of twins who apparently died soon after birth. Only two children lived to adulthood:

11K1.	Twin Bonetti daughter	1 Apr 1720	1 Apr 1720	(1 day)
11K2.	Twin Bonetti	1 Apr 1720	1 Apr 1720	(1 day)
11K3.	Giovanni Pietro Bonetti	28 May 1721	21 Dec 1784	(63)
11K4.	Maria Domenica Bonetti	29 Jan 1723	(> 1745)	(> 22)
11K5.	Giacomo Bonetti	28 Oct 1728	(Infancy)	(Infancy)

Two months prior to her marriage, Anna Maria was named as the godmother to Maria Margherita Marca at her confirmation on June 12, 1719, when Giuseppe Olgiati, Bishop of Como, held confirmation ceremonies for parishes in the valley at the Church of San Maurizio in Maggia, 4 kilometers downriver.^{[Con 1719]} This Maria Marca appears to have later become the second wife of Anna Maria's younger brother Domenico, thus becoming her sister-in-law.

Anna Maria and Giovanni were married on September 7, 1719, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Before their marriage they obtained dispensation for the impediment of the fourth degree of consanguinity (i.e., second cousins) from the Nuncio in Lucerne. (The exact connection of their relationship is not yet known.) Father Giovanni Battista Grassi, the new vicar at the church allowed Father Giovanni Battista Pozzi, a native of Giumaglio and vicar of Someo, to conduct the wedding while Grassi served as a witness. The other recorded witness was Father Giuseppe Roma, the vicar of Lodano.^{[Mar 1719]}

Seven months after their wedding, Anna's twins were born and baptized at the home of Giacomo Tomaso Pozzi and recorded as two daughters in their baptism records, but as one daughter and one son in the death records. Godparents were not assigned.^{[Bap 1720, Dth 1720]}

Anna Maria and Giovanni chose the following as godparents for their subsequent children:

• Pietro: Pietro Piezzi and Domenica Piezzi, Anna's brother and sister^{[Bap 1721]};
• Domenica: Domenico Piezzi, Anna's younger brother, and Domenica Pedrotti, possibly Giovanni's maternal aunt^{[Bap 1723]};
• Giacomo: Giacomo Piezzi, Anna's elder brother, and Maria Domenica Pedrotti, likely Giovanni's mother's cousin.^{[Bap 1728]}

Anna Maria was named as the godmother to Giovanni (or Giovanna) Maria Lesina^{[Bap 1715]}; nephew Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi^{[Bap 1718A]}; niece Domenica Giumini^{[Bap 1718B]}; niece Maria Domenica Piezzi^{[Bap 1722]}; Maria Mazzini^{[Bap 1725]}; Giovanni Pietro Bonetti^{[Bap 1726]}, of an unknown relationship to husband Giovanni; niece Maria Margherita Piezzi^{[Bap 1728]}; nephew Giacomo Piezzi^{[Bap 1729]}; Giuseppe Pedrotti^{[Bap 1733]}; and nephew Giovanni Pietro Piezzi.^{[Bap 1735]} Giovanni was named as godfather to Maria Bonetti.^{[Bap 1736]}

The Bonetti family of four (less Giacomo) was recorded in the parish census of 1741.^{[Cen 1741]}

Giovanni Bonetti died a month after the census, on July 22, 1741. He was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1741]} Giovanni was about 42 years old.

Anna Maria (Piezzi) Bonetti died a year later on November 5, 1742, at her home in Giumaglio. She was one of five adults to die within a period of six weeks. Anna Maria was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. She was recorded to be "about 45 years" old, but was three months short of her 45th birthday.^{[Dth 1742]}

Domenico PIEZZI^• (1701-1756)

11L. Domenico Piezzi^• was born and baptized on March 12, 1701, in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland. His godparents were Carlo Tognini and Mrs. Giacomina Tognini, the wife of Domenico Tognini of Someo, perhaps Domenico's namesake. Domenico was married three times.^{[Cen 1748]} He first married Giovanna Gaspari in 1720 and had four children with her before her early death. The second was Maria (Margherita) Marca/Marcha^{[Bap 1733]} with whom he had three more children. His third marriage was to Giovanna Maria Cerini^•, who was 20 years younger and not quite two years older than his eldest daughter. Domenico and Giovanna had six more children together, including one pair of twin boys. All total, Domenico fathered at least 13 children:

11LA.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	17 Jul 1723	29 Dec 1749	(26)
11LB.	Giovanni Giacomo Piezzi	9 Mar 1725	26 Mar 1726	(15 days)
11LC.	Maria Margherita Piezzi	(7) Feb 1728	(Infancy)	(Infancy)
11LD.	Giacomo Pietro Piezzi	30 Oct 1729	7 Aug (1792)	(~60)
11LE.	Giovanni Antonio Piezzi•	23 Feb 1733	19 Dec (1795)	(62)
11LF.	Giovanni Pietro Piezzi (Sr.)	2 Jul 1735	21 Feb 1772	(36)
11LG.	Giacomo Piezzi	2 Apr 1739	18 Apr 1753	(14)
11LH.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	10 Aug 1745	16 May 1753	(7)
11LI.	Giovanni Domenico Piezzi	23 Jan 1748	10 Apr 1748	(2 mos.)
11LJ.	Giovanni Francesco Piezzi	23 Jan 1748	(< 1776)	(< 27)
11LK.	Giovanni Bartolomeo Piezzi	2 Dec 1749	(1817-1826)	(67-76)
11LL.	Maria Domenica Piezzi	4 Oct 1752	(1780-1795)	(28-43)
11LM.	Giovanna Maria Piezzi•	29 Jun 1755	(< 1795)	(< 39)

Domenico and Giovanna Gaspari wed on April 30, 1720, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. He was 19 years old and she was 16. Recorded witnesses to their marriage were Giovanni Bonetti and Pietro Marca/Marcha.^{[Mar 1720]} Interestingly, ten years later, after Giovanna died, Domenico remarried to the daughter of Pietro Marca/Marcha.^{[Mar 1731]}

Domenico and his wives chose the following as godparents for their children:

1. Domenica: Giovanni Antonio Sartori and Mrs. Maria Pozzi, wife of Giovanna's maternal uncle Giacomo Filippo Pozzi^{[Bap 1723B]};
2. Giacomo (elder): Giacomo Filippo Pozzi, Giovanna's maternal uncle, and Catterina Pozzi^{[Bap 1725]};
3. Maria Margherita: Giovanni Giacomo Gasparini and Anna Maria Piezzi, Domenico's elder sister^{[Bap 1728]}
4. Giacomo Pietro: Giacomo Pietro Giumini and Domenica Piezzi, Domenico's younger sister^{[Bap 1729]};
5. Antonio: Antonio Pozzi and maternal aunt Catterina Marcha^{[Bap 1733]};
6. Giovanni Pietro: Giovanni Pietro Marchese, Domenico's brother-in-law, and Anna Maria Piezzi, Domenico's next elder sister^{[Bap 1735]};
7. Giacomo (younger): Giacomo Piezzi, either Domenico's brother or nephew, and Maria Anna Giumini^{[Bap 1739]};
8. Domenica (elder): Carlo Antonio Spadong(?) of Onsernone and Giovanna Maria Piezzi (Lesina), a likely cousin^{[Bap 1745]};
9. Domenico: Giacomo Piezzi and his sister Mrs. Giovanna Maria (Piezzi) Lesina, likely cousins^{[Bap 1748A]};
10. Francesco: Giovanni Pietro Bonetti, Domenico's nephew, and Mrs. Maria Maddalena (Sartori) Giumini^{3 [Bap 1748B]};
11. Bartolomeo: Giovanni Bartolomeo Marchese and Mrs. Maria Teresa (Sartori) Piezzi^{[Bap 1749]}
12. Domenica (younger): Giovanni Piezzi and Maria Teresia (Gasparini) Pedrotti^{[Bap 1752]}; and
13. Giovanna: Giovanni Antonio Giovanotti and Maria Margherita Pedrotti.^{[Bap 1755]}

Giovanna (Gaspari) Piezzi (curiously recorded as "Maria, wife of Dominici Piezzi") died in early January 1731.^{[Dth 1731]}. She was only 27 years old.

Domenico remarried to Maria (Margherita) Marca/Marcha, probably later in 1731 or in 1732. This was around the time or soon after Maria's father remarried following the death of her mother and Domenico was recorded as one of the witnesses to that marriage^{[Mar 1731]}, as had her father been the witness to Domenico's first marriage 11 years earlier.^{[Mar 1720]} Domenico would have been about 31 years old and Maria about 22. They had three sons together before her death eight years later.

Maria (Marca/Marcha) Piezzi died on December 11, 1740, in Giumaglio. She had confessed on the day before but died suddenly before last rites could be administered. She was buried in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. Maria was recorded to be "about 30 years" old.^{[Dth 1740]}

Barely four months after Maria's death, Domenico remarried to Giovanna Maria Cerini on April 10, 1741, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. They obtained dispensation for the impediment of three equal, duplicate degrees of consanguinity (i.e., second cousins, apparently in two lines) from the Nuncio Apostolic in Lucerne. The exact relationships are not yet known. Recorded witnesses were Domenico's nephew Giovanni Pietro Bonetti and Antonio Regolate.^{[Mar 1741]}

The parish census of 1741 was recorded six months after Maria's death and two months after Domenico's marriage to Giovanna. It enumerated Domenico and his five children from his first two marriages, ages 2 through 16.^{[Cen 1741]} In 1748, the census identified Giacomo Pietro as the son of Domenico's first wife; Giovanni Antonio, Giovanni Pietro, and Giacomo, as sons of his second wife; and Giovanna Maria Cerini as his third wife and the mother of their five children.^{[Cen 1748]} Daughter, Domenica (the elder) was married, to Giovanni Sartori by 1748, and thus was not enumerated with her father, however, she did name her brother Giacomo Pietro as godfather to her son in 1749.^{[Bap 1749]} Domenica likely died in 1749^{[Dth 1749]} and it appears that her father named her much younger half-sisters, who were born in 1745 and 1752, after her. (The younger two Domenicas were in fact both baptized as such, even though the elder of the two died seven months after the younger was born and baptized. Their shared parents are confirmed in the baptism records.^{[Bap 1745, 1752, Dth 1753]})

Domenico was named as godfather to nephew Giuseppe Maria Lesina^{[Bap 1721]}, niece Maria Domenica Bonetti^{[Bap 1723A]}, niece Maria Maddalena Piezzi^{[Bap 1724]}, niece Maria Domenica Piezzi^{[Bap 1727]}, and Giovanna's niece, Giovanna Maria Cerini.^{[Bap 1744]}

Children Giacomo, age 14, and Domenica, age 7, both died during a one-month period when four parishioners died in April and May 1753. They were both buried in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1753A,B]}

Domenico Piezzi died on November 18, 1756, at his home in Giumaglio, at the age of 55. He was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1756]}

Giovanna continued on with her four surviving children living together with her through 1769.^{[Cen 1760,1769]}

Youngest children Giovanni Bartolomeo, Maria Domenica and Giovanna Maria were confirmed on June 16 and 17, 1761, when Giovanni Battista Albrici, Count Peregrini, Bishop of Como (1760-1764), held confirmation ceremonies for parishes in the valley at the Church of Santi Placido ed Eustachio in Someo, 2 kilometers upriver. Bartolomeo's sponsoring godfather was Giuseppe Tomasini of Lodano, 3 kilometers downriver from Giumaglio. Domenica's sponsoring godmother was named as Maria Cerini, Giovanna's niece, who would go on to marry Bartolomeo 11 years later. Giovanna's sponsoring godmother was the widow Mrs. Giovanna Maria (Pozzi) Piezzi, who was the wife of Domenico's late nephew, Giovanni Battista Piezzi.^{[Con 1761]}

Giovanna Maria (Cerini) Piezzi died on July 29, 1774, at her home in Giumaglio, apparently following a weeks-long illness in which her confession was given on the 6th and her last rites just before her death. She was 52 years old and was buried in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1774]}

Domenica (PIEZZI LESINA) MARCHESE (1704-1764)

11M. Domenica Piezzi was born and baptized on March 15, 1704, in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland. Her godparents were named as Cristiano Sartori and Domenica Marchese^{[Bap 1704]}, who, likely along with her mother, was her namesake. Domenica first married Innocenzo Lesina in 1720 and had two children. Domenica later remarried to Giovanni Pietro Marchese, who was about 12 years younger than she. She was probably about 30 years old and he about 18 when they wed. They at last five children, but only two survived to adulthood:

11M1.	Giuseppe Maria Lesina	19 Nov 1721	26 Dec 1746	(35)
11M2.	Maria Lesina	8 Feb 1729	(< 1741)	(< 12)
11M3.	Maria Catterina Marchese	2 Aug 1735	(> 1776)	(> 40)
11M4.	Giovanna Maria Marchese	28 Jan 1737	28 Nov 1775	(38)
11M5.	Maria Domenica Marchese	(14/15) Nov 1739	(< 1748)	(<8)
11M6.	Giovanni Marchese	30 Oct 1745	18 Dec 1747	(2)
11M7.	Maria Domenica Marchese	11 Nov 1748	15 Nov 1748	(4 days)

Domenica and Innocenzo wed on either March 26 or April 8, 1720, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. She was 16 years old and he about 42 years. Recorded witnesses to their marriage were the Father Bartolomeo Bettetini of Ascona, the vicar of neighboring Coglio, and Giovanni Pietro Sartori².^{[Mar 1720]}

Domenica and her husbands chose the following godparents for their children:

1. Giuseppe: Domenico Piezzi, Domenica's elder brother, and Maria Pozzi, likely Domenica's sister-in-law^{[Bap 1721]};
2. Maria: Giacomo Piezzi, Domenica's elder brother, and Mrs. Giacomina Lesina, the wife of Innocenzo's nephew^{[Bap 1729]};
3. Catterina: no baptism record found in Giumaglio;
4. Giovanna: Giovanni Pietro (family name illegible) and Maria Maddalena Sartori^{3 [Bap 1737]};
5. Domenica (elder): Giuseppe Sartori and Maria Domenica Bonetti, Domenica's (the mother's) niece^{[Bap 1739]};
6. Giovanni: Don Rodolfo Maria Pozzi and Mrs. Giovanna Maria (Giumini Cerini).^{[Bap 1745]}
7. Domenica (younger): Giacomo Piezzi and Mrs. Giovanna Maria (Giumini) Cerini.^{[Bap 1748]}

Innocenzo Lesina died sometime between 1729 and 1735. He was in his early 50s.^{[Cen 1741]}

Domenica and Giovanni Pietro Marchese wed by 1735, when she was probably about 30 years old and he about 18.^{[Bap 1716]}

After her remarriage to Pietro, Domenica's son Giuseppe Lesina, lived with them through at least the age of 19.^{[Cen 1741]}

Pietro was named as the godfather, and apparent partial namesake, to Domenica's grandnephew, Giovanni Pietro Maria Cerini, who apparently died in infancy, in 1752.^{[Bap 1752]}

Giovanni Pietro Marchese died on October 27, 1755, at his home in Giumaglio. He was the first of three adults to die over the coming month. He was only 39 years old, an age consistent with his birth in 1716. Pietro was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta.^{[Dth 1755]}

After Pietro's death, daughter Giovanna continued to live with Domenica until she married sometime around 1760.^{[Cen 1748,1760]}

Domenica (Piezzi) Marchese died on April 13, 1764, in her home in Giumaglio, following an illness of at least three days. Domenica was buried the following day in the cemetery of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta. She was 60 years old and died 7 weeks after her elder brother Giacomo.^{[Dth 1764]}