Cerini Family History, Part H

Maria Orsola Cerini⁸ (1839-1886)

11732462. Maria Orsola Cerini⁸ was born on December 15, 1839, apparently somewhere other than Giumaglio as no baptism record has been found at the parish. She married Giovanni Battista Cerini⁸, her second cousin, after being granted a dispensation, on April 14, 1861, in Giumaglio. Giacomo Pietro Piezzi and Ferdinando Pozzi were recorded as witnesses.^{[Mar 1861]} They had seven children and all six who lived to adulthood emigrated to America:

Maria Orsola Cerini reportedly died on October 18, 1886. She was only 46 years old.

Pietro Antonio Cerini^Δ (1842-1916)

11732463. Pietro Antonio Cerini^Δ was born on October 10, 1842, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. He was apparently named for his paternal grandfather and his paternal uncle and godfather Pietro Antonio Felice Cerini. His godmother was his paternal aunt Maria Anna Cerini.^{[Bap 1842]}

Peter married Marianne Siegenthaler in Trub, Bern canton, Switzerland, in 1874.^{[Mar 1874]} They had seven children but only four survived to 1900.^{[Cen 1900]} The family emigrated to America in 1882 and the spelling of Cerini changed to Cerine.

Pietro was named by his elder sister Maria Orsola⁸ as the godfather of her daughter Addelida Cerini.^{[Bap 1861]}

“Pietro Ceriny” (sic), age 40, departed from Le Havre, France, aboard the Labrador and arrived in New York City on August 24, 1882. He was recorded to be a blacksmith from Biel/Bienne, canton of Bern. His family's passenger records have not yet been found. Maria, Fred, and presumably Peter and the rest of the Swiss-born children, were naturalized as United States citizens in 1887.^{[Cen 1920]}

Son Peter Antonio was born in early October 1886 but died 5 weeks later of cholera infantum. He was buried at Hyde Park Cemetery (Washburn Street Cemetery). He and his family had been living on 9th Street in Scranton.^{[Dth 1886]}

The Cerines later resettled at 1407 North Main Avenue in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, by 1900. At the time they had a mortgage on the home but paid it off by 1910.^{[Cen 1900, 1910]} Peter worked as a hotel keeper.^{[Cen 1900]}

Peter Cerine suffered a stroke and later died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 12, 1916, at home at 1407 North Main Avenue in Scranton. He had been attended by Dr. Peter Felix Carlucci, the younger brother of son-in-law Frank Carlucci. He was 73 years old.^{[Dth 1916]} Peter was buried on July 14 at Dunmore Cemetery, northeast of Scranton.^[Grave]

After Peter's death, Maria continued to reside at 1407 North Main Avenue with son Fred. Both reported German as their native language. By 1930, Marie was renting a house next to son Fred and his family, but the houses were curiously numbered as 1409 and 1411 North Main Avenue, respectively.^{[Cen 1930]}

Marie Anne (Siegenthaler) Cerine reportedly died on January 14, 1933, in Scranton. She was 89 years old.

Elisabetta Apollonia (Cerini) Marci^Δ (1848-)

11732465. Elisabetta Apollonia Cerini^Δ was born on September 16, 1848, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and baptized the following day. Her godmother and apparent partial namesake was Mrs. Apollonia Piezzi, the wife of Giovanni Piezzi. Her godfather was Giovanni Giacomo Adami.^{[Bap 1848]}

Elisabetta married Luca Marci of Frasco, in the upper Verzasca valley, in Frasco on August 3, 1877. They had at least three children, all born in Frasco:^{[Marci-Sybalsky]}

Three children emigrated to California after the turn of the century: Gerunzio in 1900, Luca in 1901, and Dorothy in 1911.