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Zamaroni Family History

The Zamaroni (also observed as Zamarone) family of Avegno is largely known through parish records Giumaglio and Coglio; however, in February 2017 Kathleen Mayes, a descendant of the Zamaroni and Bizzini families of Avegno, began collaboraing with me on parish record in Avegno. As of March 2017 we're still about four or five generations from making a connection, but stay tuned.

Francesco ZAMARONI¹

1.Francesco Zamaroni¹ is so far only known through the parish records of Coglio and Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. He had at least five children, of whom three daughters married in Coglio and Giumaglio:

11.	Maria Domenica Zamaroni•	(< 1759)	(> 1781)	(> 22)
12.	Maria Giacomina Zamaroni2	(1752-1753)	22 Dec 1806	(52)
13.	Francesco Zamaroni (Jr.)	(< 1760)	(> 1775)	(> 15)
14.	Maria Caterina Zamaroni	(1760-1761)	(1795-1789)	(35-37)
15.	Martino Zamaroni	(< 1769)	(> 1779)	(> 10)

Francesco's daughters married into the Caneverini and Lafranchi families of Coglio and the Giumini family of Giumaglio.

Marianna (ZAMARONI) LAFRANCHI (<1721->1752)

X.Marianna Zamaroni is so far only known through the parish records of Coglio and Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. She was the daughter of Pietro Zamaroni. Her relationship to Francesco Zamaroni¹ is unknown but she was about a generation older, judging from the ages of their children. Marianna married Giovanni Antonio Lafranchi (Sr.)³ on October 20, 1735, and became his third wife. Giovanni Antonio had one son with his first wife, but he died in childhood, and one or two daughters with his second wife. Marianna and Giovanni Antonio went on to have six more children together. Their blended family was:

--	Maria (Perpetua) Lafranchi4	28 Dec 1733	(13 Jan 1782)	(48)
--	Domenica Lafranchi	2 Sep 1735	(> 1760)	(> 24)
X1.	Maria Caterina Lafranchi	8 Nov 1737	(1764-1769)	(26-31)
X2.	Giovanni Battista Lafranchi	10 Dec 1741	--	--
X3.	Pietro Lafranchi	10 Nov 1742	--	--
X4.	Giovanni Antonio Maria Lafranchi (Jr.)	21 Sep 1745	(1770)	(24)
X5.	Angela Maria Lafranchi	30 Aug 1747	--	--
X6.	Maria Margherita Lafranchi	1 Aug 1749	--	--

Marianna and Giovanni Antonio married only about a month after the death of Giovanni Antonio's first wife and the birth of his daughter Domenica. They wed at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Coglio on October 20, 1735. Recorded witnesses were Giovanni Maria Delnotaro and Antonio Delnotaro.^{[Mar 1735]}

Marianna and Giovanni Antonio and chose the following godparents for their children:

1. Caterina: Don Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (I)^• and Maria Caterina, wife of Don Rodolfo Maria Pozzi^{•[Bap 1737]};
2. Battista (younger): Giovanni Battista Lafranchi and Maria Domenica (Adami), wife of Don Rodolfo Maria Pozzi^{•[Bap 1741]};
3. Pietro: Pietro Antonio Pozzi and Giovanna Maria (Tomasini), wife of Don Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (I)^{•[Bap 1742]};
4. Antonio: Giovanni Battista Zamaroni of Avegno and Mrs. Maria Apollonia Guglielmetti^{[Bap 1745]};
5. Angela: Giuseppe Maria Lafranchi and Marianna Lafranchi^{[Bap 1747]}, both of whom wed the following year; and
6. Margherita: Don Rodolfo Maria Pozzi^• and Mrs. Giacomina (Bontempi) Pozzi.^{[Bap 1749]}

Giovanni Antonio Lafranchi may have died in 1749, prior to birth of daughter Margherita.^{[Bap 1749]} As such he would have been about 41 years old.

Marianna (Zamaroni) Lafranchi lived until at least 1752 when she was named as godmother to Maria Domenica Delnotaro, whose mother, Margherita (Boggione) Delnotaro of Avegno, may have been a relative.^{[Bap 1752]}

Maria Domenica (ZAMARONI) CANAVERINI^• (<1759-)

11.Maria Domenica Zamaroni^• was probably born in Avegno, Ticino canton, Switzerland, in the 1750s, or perhaps earlier. She married three-time widower Giovanni Antonio Maria Caneverini^• of Coglio^{[Mar 1773]}, 10 kilometers upriver. He had five children from his previous marriages and they had four more together:

--	Antonio Caneverini	(12) Dec 1751	--	--
--	David Antonio Caneverini	14 Nov 1754	--	--
--	Abram Giuseppe Antonio Caneverini	(5) Mar 1757	--	--
--	Giovanni Luigi Davide Caneverini•	26 Dec 1758	(> 1820)	(> 61)
--	Marianna Margherita Anastasia Caneverini	15 Jun 1761	--	--
111.	Giovanni Francesco Caneverini	2 Jan 1775	--	--
112.	Pietro Francesco Maria Caneverini	(11) Apr 1777	(> 1808)	(> 30)
113.	Maria Caterina Caneverini	(4) Mar 1779	--	--
114.	Giovanna Maria Caneverini	5 Apr 1781	--	--

Prior to their marriage, Antonio had married three times to: Giovanna Maria Perinoni of Someo; Anna Berna, daughter of Don Abramm Berna of Prato, Val Lavizzaria; and Maria Domenica Pozzi, granddaughter of Don Chancellor Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (I)^• of Coglio. Antonio had fathered one son with his first wife and four children with his second, but only one is known to have survived to adulthood.

Domenica and Antonio married on November 9, 1773, at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Coglio. Recorded witnesses to the their marriage were Antonio's brother Giovanni Giacomo Caneverini and his son Giovanni Antonio Caneverini.^{[Mar 1773]}

Domenica and Antonio chose the following godparents for their children:

1. Francesco: Don Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (II)^•, an uncle to Antonio's third wife, and Maria Caterina (Caneverini) Pozzi, sister-in-law to Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (II)^{•[Bap 1775]};
2. Pietro Francesco: Pietro Paolo Perinini of Someo, a brother to Antonio's first wife, and Maria Barbara Caseri of Prato, Val Lavizzaria;
3. Caterina: Martino and Caterina Zamaroni, Domenica's brother and sister^{[Bap 1779]}; and
4. Giovanna: Giuseppee Lafranchi and Mrs. Maria Caterina (Caneverini) Pozzi.^{[Bap 1781]}

Domenica was named as at the sponsoring godmother to to Maria Caterina Pozzi of Giumaglio when Bishop Muggiasca visited the valley and confirmed children at the Church of Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Gordevio on July 30, 1776.^{[Con 1776]}

Giacomina (ZAMARONI LAFRANCHI) CERINI²

12.Maria Giacomina Zamaroni² was probably born in Avegno, Ticino canton, Switzerland, in 1752 or 1753. She first married five-time widower Giovanni Battista Lafranchi⁴ in Coglio, 10 kilometers upriver, in 1775. Of his six children from his previous marriages about three survived. Giacomina and Battista went on to have six children together. After Battista's death Giacomina remarried to Antonio Cerini (V)⁵, a widower with four surviving children, on April 24, 1784, at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Coglio. She and Antonio had one more son together. Her blended families looked like:

(A26JB)	Maria Apollonia Lafranchi	8 Nov 1756	(1802-1813)	(45-56)
(A26JC)	Giovanni Francesco Lafranchi	(11) Oct 1759	(> 1784)	(> 24)
(A26JD)	Maria Caterina Lafranchi	9 Jan 1768	(1793)	(25)
(117322)	Maria Innocenza Cerini	28 Dec 1764	(> 1795)	(> 32)
(117323)	Giovanni Antonio Cerini (VI)6	18 Jun 1767	(< 1817)	(< 50)
(117324)	Pietro Antonio Cerini6	10 Oct 1769	12 Jan 1859	(89)
(117325)	Giuseppe Antonio Maria Cerini	28 Jan 1774	(> 1795)	(> 21)
121.	Giovanni Battista Lafranchi (Jr.)	22 Aug 1775	(< 1781)	(< 6)
122.	Giovanni Antonio Maria Lafranchi	13 Oct 1776	(1840-1845)	(63-68)
123.	Maria Caterina Lafranchi	9 Jun 1778	(< 1780)	(Infancy)
124.	Maria Caterina Domenica Lafranchi5	21 Jan 1780	(16 May 1847)	(67)
125.	Giovanni Battista Lafranchi (Jr.)	18 Sep 1781	--	--
126.	Giovanni Giacomo Cerini	8 Jun 1785	29 Mar 1848	(62)

Giacomina and Battista wed but five months after the birth of a son and the loss of his wife. They married on March 4, 1775, at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo. Before their marriage they obtained dispensation from the Bishop of Como to forgo the traditional three declarations, likely because Giacomina was already pregnant, as evident by the birth of their first son five months later. Recorded witnesses to their marriage were Giacomina's brother Francesco Zamaroni and Pietro Zamaroni, both of Avegno.^{[Mar 1775]} Battista and Giacomina had four children together.

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

1. Battista (Jr.) (elder): Giovanna Giacomo Pozzi and Mrs. Maria Domenica (Fanora) Lafranchi^{[Bap 1775]}, Battista's cousin and his late wife Giovanna's mother;
2. Antonio: Giovanni Antonio Delnotaro and Mrs. Giovanna Maria (Caneverini) Guglielmetti^{[Bap 1776]};
3. Caterina (elder): Carlo Antonio Pozzi and Giacomina's sister Maria Caterina Zamaroni of Avegno^{[Bap 1778]};
4. Caterina⁵ (younger): Giacomina's brother Martino Zamaroni and Mrs. Maria Caterina (Caneverini) Pozzi, Battista's cousin; and
5. Battista: Pietro Zamaroni and Maria Caterina (Caneverini) Lafranchi^{[Bap 1781]};
6. Giacomo: Giovanni Giacomo Pedrotti, apparently his namesake and Giacomina's stepson-in-law, and Mrs. Maria Angela Cerini, the wife of Giovanni Cerini.^{[Bap 1785]}

Giovanni Battista Lafranchi died between 1783 and 1784, when his grandson Giovanni Antonio Pedrotti was born.^{[Bap 1784]} As such he would have been about 51 years old.

After Battista

Giacomina went on to remarry to Antonio Cerini (V)⁵ and became his fourth wife. They wed on April 24, 1784, at the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Coglio. Recorded witnesses to the their marriage were Giacomo Pietro Pozzi, Antonio's son-in-law, and Giovanni Giacomo Pedrotti^{[Mar 1784]}, husband of Giacomina's eldest stepdaughter Maria Apollonia Lafranchi. Antonio was about 46 years old and Giacomina was about 32.^{[Cen 1795]} Antonio and Giacomina went on to have one more son together.

In 1795, the Cerini household in Giumaglio included Antonio's two youngest sons, their wives (which included Giacomina's daughter Caterina⁵ who had married Antonio's son Pietro Antonio), their children, and Giacomina's and Antonio's son Giacomo.^{[Cen 1795]}

Antonio Cerini⁵ died between 1802 and 1805 and Maria Giacomina (Zamaroni Lafranchi) Cerini² followed on December 22, 1806.^{[Dth 1806]} He was in his early 60s and she around 52 or 53 years old.

Maria Caterina (ZAMARONI) GIUMINI (~1761-<1789)

14.Maria Caterina Zamaroni was probably born in Avegno, Ticino canton, Switzerland, in 1760 or 1761. She married the widower Giuseppe Maria Giumini of Giumaglio, 11 kilometers upriver. Caterina had as many as five children before her early death but only one may have survived to adulthood. After her death, Giuseppe remarried to Maria Margherita Respini of Cevio and had one more son:

141.	Maria Domenica Giumini	1786	(> 1817)	(> 30)
142.	Giuseppe Giumini (Jr.)	7 Jun 1789	28 Jan 1848	(58)
143.	Pietro Martino Giumini	(1791-1792)	(< 1808)	(Childhood)
144.	Giovanna Maria Giumini	1794	--	--
145.	Giovanni Antonio Giumini	(1795-1798)	--	--
--	Carlo Antono Giumini	22 Feb 1800	13 May 1835	(35)

Giuseppe had been married to Marianna Delnotaro but she died in Giumaglio on May 22, 1784^{[Dth 1784]}, a mere five weeks after their marriage.^{[Mar 1784]} They had no children.

Caterina and Giuseppe chose the following godparents for their children:

• Domenica: Carlo Antonio Pozzi and Mrs. Maria Lucia (Maschino) Gaspari^{[Bap 1786]}; and
• Giuseppe: Pietro Giumini and Mrs. Anna Maria (Franzoni), wife of Carlo Antonio Pozzi.^{[Bap 1789]}
• No baptism records found in Giumaglio for Pietro Martino, Giovanna, and Antonio.

Caterina in turn was named as godmother and apparent namesake to niece Maria Caterina Lafranchi^{[Bap 1778]}; and niece Maria Caterina Caneverini.^{[Bap 1779]}

Maria Caterina (Zamaroni) Giumini died between 1795 and 1798. She was likely in her mid-30s.^{[Cen 1795]}

The 1795 parish census of Giumaglio recorded the family with Giuseppe, Caterina, and their four children. It identified Caterina as Giuseppe's second wife and later added infant son Giovanni Antonio followed by the addition Giuseppe's subsequent wife, Maria Margherita Respini.^{[Cen 1795]}

After Caterina

Giuseppe remarried to Maria Margherita Respini of Cevio, about 8 kilometers upriver, on Saturday, June 9, 1798, at the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Giumaglio.^{[Mar 1798]} They had one son together and named his godparents as Margherita's brother Carlo Antonio Respini (Jr.) and Giuseppe's cousin Mrs. Maria Maddalena (Giumini) Piezzi.^{[Bap 1800]}

Giuseppe Maria Giumini died sometime before 1808 while in his 40s.

Margherita, stepson Giuseppe, and son Carlo Antonio were recorded together in the 1817 parish census.^{[Cen 1817]}

Maria Margherita (Respini) Giumini may have died during the gap in parish records that continued unitl 1826 and therefore would have been in her 50s.