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Select Pedigrees of Valle Maggians

Following are select pedigree charts of late 19th Century natives of Valle Maggia--chiefly from Giumaglio and Coglio--based upon parish record reconstructions. These are all works in progress that are presented to serve as a basis for comparison and discussion. Please do not cite these as finished genealogies nor not accept contradicting information without question--I seek your questions. The pedigrees selected represent the ancestries of key contributors and collaborators on the parish reconstruction projects and emigrants who started families in America and Australia.

If a pedigree is more than six months old, please ask me to repost a fresh copy--things change.

Adami of Giumaglio

Domenico Antonio Samuele Adami (1883-1966)

Samuele Adami was born in Giumaglio and married Ersilia Vittoria Genoeffa Sartori (1887-1973). They were third cousins tracing back to Giovanni Lorenzo Maria Pozzi (1758-1831) of Giumaglio. Samuele was also the nephew of Giacinto Adami, a paternal uncle, and Maurizio Pozzi (1856-1928), a maternal uncle, both of whom emigrated to California.

• Great-grandparents of contributor and distant cousin of Mirko Polli.

Giacinto Adami/Jerry Adams (1854-1919)

Giacinto Adami was born in Giumaglio and was a paternal uncle to Samuele Adami. Giacinto emigrated to California and Anglicized his name to Jerry Adams. He married Katherine Haggerty in 1886 in San Francisco, but she died a few months later after giving birth to their son Jesse Arnold Adams in Olema, Marin County. Both Jerry and Katherine are buried at Olema Cemetery.

Bonetti of Giumaglio

Giuseppe "Joe" Valeriano Bonetti (1868-1950)

Joe married Annetta Tamba and settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. Both are buried at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa.

Joe's younger sister Virginia Bonetti also emigrated to California with her husband Raffaele Pozzi.

Caligari of Someo

Antonio Caligari (1843-1907)

Antonio Caligari departed Liverpool, England, aboard the S.S. Great Britain and arrived in Australia on May 2, 1861. With him were Domenica Righetti (age 21), Marco Righetti (age 16), Giuseppe Righetti (age 15), and Eustachio Morganti (age 21). Antonio was 18 years old and settled in Eganstown, Victoria. His brothers Giovanni Battista (1845-1874) and Giacomo Caligari also immigrated. Antonio, brother Battista, and Marco and Giuseppe Righetti were shareholder of the Garibaldi Gold Mining Company in 1865. Antonio became director of the Sailor Prince Gold Mining Company in 1868. He married Mary Ann Lucas at Daylesford, Victoria, on December 4, 1872, and had twelve children.

• Antonio is the ancestor of contributor and Australian genealogist Tricia Curry. See Family History Detective: Tricia's Tracings.

Cerini of Giumaglio

The main surviving Cerini families descended from Antonio¹, Pietro, and Giovanni.

Enrico "Henry" Felice Cerini/Cerine (1881-1960)^[Pietro] & Olga Rosalia Cerini (1891-1991)^[Antonio]

Henry emigrated to California in 1899 and eventually adopted the spelling of "Cerine" for his name. He was of the Pietro line. Henry married Olga Rosalia Cerini in 1910 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. She was a granddaughter of Giovanni Battista⁸ & Maria Orsola Cerini⁸ from the Antonio¹ line and emigrated in 1907. Henry and Olga were third cousins, once removed, on Henry's mother's side going back to Antonio Cerini (V)⁵ and Maria Perpetua Lafranchi⁴. They had three daughters, all born in Oregon.

• Henry and Olga were parents to contributor and second cousin Alice Cerine (1911-2012) and her nephews Dell & Dee Swearingen and niece Connie Smart.

Filippo Cerini (1840-)^[Pietro]

Filippo "Philip" Cerini emigrated to Australia and reportedly worked with a Morganti at one of the larger mining companies in Australia^[Carlson], ostensibly in the Jim Crow goldfields near Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. He married Paulina Nicola of Gordevio.

Filippo's cousin Natale Cerini also emigrated to Australia.

Giovanni Battista Cerini⁸ (1834-) & Maria Orsola Cerini⁸ (1839-)^[Antonio]

Giovanni Battista⁸ and Orsola Cerini⁸ were second cousins, descendants of the Antonio¹ line. Battista likely emigrated for a time by 1880 to Nicasio Township, Marin County^{[Cen 1880]}, where he worked as a hired farm worker, but returned to Giumaglio. Five of his six surviving children immigrated to California, the exception being youngest daughter Carolina, who did not emigrate but whose husband and children did. Their children's stories were the inspiration for the parish reconstructions of Giumaglo and Coglio.

Battista's elder brothers, Giovanni Pietro (1828-1904) and Pietro (Antonio) (1830-1903) both emigrated to Australia in 1855 and settled in Victoria.

Giovanni Nunzio Cerini (1849-1899)^[Pietro]

Giovanni Nunzio Cerini descended from the Pietro line. His father emigrated for a time to Victoria, Australia, in the 1850s, but returned to Giumaglio. Nunzio did not emigrate, but six of his nine adult children immigrated to Marin and Sonoma Counties. Finding a link between his family and Battista's⁸ was key to prompting me to reconstruct all of Giumaglio and Coglio parishes. As it turns out, any direct Cerini male connection we might have predates by several generations the marriage of Nunzio's ancestor Giovanni Pietro Cerini (1699-1739) to Giacomina Cerini (1696-1750) on the Antonio¹ line in 1720.

Nunzio's nephew and niece, Emil Cerini and Maria (Gasparini) Zappella, children of his elder sister, Maria Addolorata (Cerini) Gasparini, also emigrated to California.

• Nunzio's great-grandson Elio Genazzi in Maggia gave my father and me a spectacular tour of Valle Maggia and historic sites throughout Ticino in September 2015.

Giovanni "John" Sebastiano Cerini (Jr.) (1854-1929)^[Pietro]

John Cerini. baptized as "Joannes Sebastianus," lost his father in 1863 or 1865 in Australia when he was 9 or 11 years old. He emigrated at the age of 15 in 1869 by way of England, New York, and the Panama Canal, to San Francisco, and first settled in Bodega Township, Sonoma County. His first wife, Julia Ann Cecelia Tuomey (1860-1880) died a month after the birth of their daughter. He remarried to Frances (Calzascio/Calazascia) (1862-1941) a couple years later and resettled in Township 4 (Fowler/Kingsburg/Selma) of Fresno County by 1900, Township 13 (Laton/Caruthers) by 1910 and Township 15 (Laton/Coalinga) by 1920

Our uncle Dan Cerini also lived in the area of Caruthers, which could suggest familial ties between the two Cerini lines, however, it appears their closest relationship was that of fifth cousins through their mothers' lines.

Giuseppe Cerini (1845-1919)^[Pietro]

Giuseppe Cerini married Maria Angiolina Addolorata Piezzi, second cousins, and started their family in Giumaglio. Their first two children were born in Giumaglio and then they emigrated to California around 1880 and had four more children. Their children spread from Sonoma County to Humboldt and Santa Cruz counties.

Angiolina's younger brother Giuseppe Vittorio Piezzi settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

Natale Cerini (1839-1923)^[Pietro]

Natale Cerini emigrated in 1855 aboard the Adèle to Victoria, Australia, and mined near Guildford and Castlemaine. He married Sarah Cooke and had ten children. Natale's cousin Filippo Cerini also emigrated to Australia.

• Ancestor of contributor and distant cousin Paull Morton.

Pietro Valentino Cerini (1873-1940) & Santina Lorenza Cerini (1881-1977)^[Pietro]

Peter and Santina were both descendants of Pietro Cerini, connecting back to Giovanni Cerini (1724-1803) & Maria Margherita Pedrotti (1739-), making them third cousins, once removed on that line.

Peter had emigrated in 1888, returned to Switzerland, married Santina in 1902, and then both emigrated to Washington. They first settled south of Seattle and later in Seattle. They had five children.

• Ancestor of contributor and distant cousin Christine Weicher.

Gasparini of Giumaglio

Giuseppe Gasparini (1854)

Giumini of Giumaglio

Daniel & Innocenzo Giumini

Enrico Daniele "Daniel" Giumini (1864-1958) emigrated to California as a young boy and resided with an uncle in the San Simeon area of San Luis Obispo County. He worked for Maurizio "Morris" Lafranchi in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, by 1900, and married Morris' sister-in-law, Sabina Piezzi (1881-1964), also a native of Giumaglio. The Giuminis returned to San Luis Obispo where they lived about 50 years.

Daniel's younger brother Innocenzo (1867-1954) also emigrated to San Luis Obispo County and married Pia Carolina Bassi (1871-1930) of Cerentino, 19 kilometers upriver.

• Innocenzo was the anncestor of distant cousin P. Giumini.

Guglielmetti of Coglio

Pietro Cesare Guglielmetti (1857-1921)

Pietro Cesare Guglielmetti immigrated to America in 1876 and settled in Petaluma Township, Sonoma County, California. He married Olimpia Lafranchi (1876-1959), the daughter of Giuseppe Pietro Lafranchi and Eugenia Brigida Righetti.

Pietro's eldest brother, Giovanni Battista (1838-1909), emigrated to Australia in 1854 and ultimately emigrated to California with his wife Domenica Dolcini (1841-1913). They also settled in Petaluma.

• Grandfather of the late Donna (Guglielmetti) Malugani.

Lafranchi of Coglio

The Lafranchi family descends from three main lines: Martino¹, Giovanni Giacomo¹, and Giovanni Antonio¹, which I divide and label "A," "B," and "C," respectively. This order is how Father Giovanni Battista Pozzi arranged his reconstruction of the parish after a fire destroyed all records in 1745.

Alfonso Vittorino Lafranchi (1886-1980)^[Martino/A]

Vittorio Giulio Alfonso Lafranchi (aka Alfonso Vittorino) emigrated to America and married in 1916. He had five children and died in Snohomish County, Washington, on October 14, 1980. His maternal uncle was Elvezio Giuliano Lesina.

• Ancestor of contributor and distant cousin Rick G. and Anita L.

Carlo Maria Giovanni Lafranchi/Charles LeFrancke (1833-1868)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Carlo Maria Giovanni Lafranchi emigrated to Australia in 1854 and first settled in Stoney Creek Goldfield, New South Wales. He adopted the spelling "Charles LeFrancke" . Charles married Jane Shaw in 1858 and had five children before his early death at the age of 35, at Canal Creek Diggings, near Leyburn, Queensland.

• Ancestor of contibutors and distant cousins Peter LeFrancke, Sharon Currie, and Lynne Hammond.

Eugenio Celestino Lafranchi (1876-1942)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]} &
Claudina Maria Lafranchi (1878-1955)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

While both Celestino's and Claudina's paternal lines descended from Giovanni Antonio¹, their closest relationship was that they were second cousins, once removed on his mother's side and her father's side, connecting at Giovanni Battista Lafranchi (Jr.) (1797-1852). Eugenio and Claudina settled in Sonoma County, California.

Celestino and Claudina's mutual uncles, Celestino Lafranchi (1828-1899) and Giovanni Andrea Lafranchi (1838-1897), emigrated to Australia in the 1850s where they mined the goldfields of Victoria.

• Ancestors of contibutor and distant cousins Dave LaFranchi and Patti Smylie.

Gioachimo Lafranchi (1831-1889)^[Martino/A]

Gioachimo Lafranchi's elder brother Bonaventura (1826->1885) emigrated to Australia in 1853 and the following year Gioachimo and eldest brother Giovanni Giacomo (1821-1872) followed. Giovanni Giacomo (the maternal grandfather to Claudina Maria Lafranchi, above) returned home a year later and Bonaventura returned home in 1856, but Gioachimo stayed in Australia. Gioachimo first settled in Wombat Creek, Hepburn, Victoria. He later moved to Otago, New Zealand, where he first settled in Macetown and then in Cardrona, where he and his family ran the All Nations Hotel. After his death, the hotel burned down in 1895 and was not rebuilt.

• Ancestor of contibutors and distant cousins Graeme and Hayden Clark.

Giovanni Andrea Lafranchi (1838-1897)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Andrea Lafranchi emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1858 and purchased a large area in Bullarook Forest, near Ballarat, Victoria. In 1866 he bought the Manchester Hotel in Mount Prospect (also known as "Blampied" for a family that lived there), near Daylesford, and renamed it as the Swiss Mountain Hotel. Andrea moved to Daylesford and married Maria Margherita Filippini (1852-1932) of Cevio in 1874. They had seven children.^{[Cheda 335]}

Giuseppe Abbondio Lafranchi (1879-1963)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]} &
Virginia Josephine Lafranchi (1889-1985)^[Martino/A]

Giuseppe Abbondio Lafranchi emigrated to America in 1897 but returned home to Coglio where he married Virginia Josephine Lafranchi in 1921. Giuseppe was a descendant of the Giovanni Antonio Lafranchi¹ ("C") line and Virginia was of the Martino Lafranchi (I)¹ ("A") line; however they were related as sixth cousins through Giuseppe's paternal grandmother, Maria Teresa Lafranchi (1814-1897) of the Martino line, and both trace back to Martino's son Giovanni Giacomo Lafranchi (I) (b. 17 Jun 1637).

The Lafranchis emigrated to Seattle, Washington, by 1925, and raised three children there.

Additionally, Virginia's younger brother, Fredolino Louis Lafranchi (1893-1964), emigrated to California in 1910 and founded the Lafranchi Ranch in Nicasio Valley, Marin County. Today the Lafranchi Ranch is the exclusive supplier of milk to the Nicasio Valley Cheese Company.

Giuseppe Pietro Lafranchi (1843-1924)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Giuseppe Pietro Lafranchi descended from Giovanni Antonio Lafranchi¹ ("C" line) and his mother was from the Martino Lafranchi (I)¹ ("A" line). He emigrated to Australia when he was about 11 years old to join his father, but his father died just a few months before his arrival. He likely was cared for by friends or relatives as he stayed on in Australia and New Zealand. He was also a second cousin to brothers Pietro Giacinto and Giulio Battista Lafranchi. Giuseppe Pietro returned home to Valle Maggia and married Eugenia Brigida Righetti (1844-1933) of Someo in 1870. The following year, Giuseppe left for America leaving his pregnant wife behind. She and their daughter followed in 1875 and they settled for about 3 years in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona. They ultimately moved to Sonoma County, California, in 1880, and settled along Sebastopol Road in Llano Precinct, Santa Rosa Township. They had five children, the first of whom was born in Someo.

Eldest daughter Maria Adele Genoveffa (1871-1959) was born in Someo and married Arcangelo Sartori (1865-1940) in 1893.

Daughter Olimpia (1876-1959) married Pietro Cesare Guglielmetti (1857-1921) about 1893.

Daughter Clara (1877-1967) married Frederick Pedrotti in the late 1890s.

Son Edward (1879-1960) married Lucia Agnes Piezzi (1879-1962) in 1899.

Son Marino Joseph (1881-1979) married Emily Frances Peterson (1884-1949) in 1904.

• Ancestor of contributor and distant cousin Diana Neal and the late Donna (Guglielmetti) Malugani.

Luigi Eligio Lafranchi (1893-1983)^[Martino/A]

Luigi Eligio Lafranchi was a descendant of the Martino line on both his parents' sides and were second cousins.

Maurizio "Morris" Natale Lafranchi (1869-1936)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Maurizio "Morris" Natale Lafranchi was born in Coglio and emigrated to California in the 1880s. He married Maria Elisa "Lizzie" Piezzi (1871-1952) of Giumaglio, his second cousin, and settled in Hopland, Mendocino County. Son James went on to marry Lucy Pozzi, daughter of Nazareno.

• Morris and Lizzie were ancestors to contributor Susan LaFranchi Scinto.

Pietro Agostino Lafranchi (1883-1942)^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Pietro Agostino "Gus" Lafranchi joined his mother, Maria (Pezzaglia) Lafranchi, and sister, Linda Marioni, in Nicasio, Marin County, California, by 1901. After a short adventure in the Klondike, he opened a grocery store in Sausalito, married Mary Canepa. He returned to Nicasio by 1910 where he operated a hotel, a trucking business, and ultimately a store that included a post office and telephone exchange.

• Ancestor of contributor and distant cousin Anne Papina Smith. See more at Anne's archived blog, Nicasio History.

Pietro Giacinto & Giulio Battista Lafranchi^{[Giovanni Antonio/C]}

Brothers Pietro Giacinto (1834-1908) and Giulio Battista (1839-1934), sons of Giuseppe Benedetto Lafranchi (1796-1867), emigrated to Australia in 1854 (age 20) and 1855 (age 15), respectively. Both were masons (muratore) and second cousins to Giuseppe Pietro Lafranchi. Both settled in Eganstown, Victoria, and later died there.

Giulio's son Peter Lafranchi (1888-1917) served with ANZAC during World War I and died on the first day of the Second Battle of Bullecourt (May 3-17, 1917) on the Hindenburg Line in Northern France.

• Giulio is an ancestor of contibutor and distant cousin Debra Talbot.

Silvio Constantine Lafranchi (1862-1942)^[Martino/A]

Silvio Constantine Lafranchi married Elvegilda Garzoli of Maggia and raised as many as ten children in Coglio.

• Maternal grandfather of distant cousin and notable resident of Coglio, Renata C.

Lesina (Lèsna) of Giumaglio

Elvezio Giuliano Lesina (1878-1951)

Elvezio Giuliano Lesina settled in California. His grandson Mark Lesina has been studying Valle Maggia for much longer than I and has contributed a treasure trove of information gleaned from civil records, newspaper articles, and books.

Muscio of Someo

Caterina & Candida (Muscio) Badasci

Giacomo Badasci of Frasco, Valle Verzasca, first married Caterina Muscio (1849-1880) of Someo in 1879 and emigrated to San Luis Obispo, California. There Caterina and their newborn child died at birth, after which Giacomo returned to Someo and married Caterina's sister, Candida Florida Muscio (1859-1904) in 1883. They had seven children, of whom five reached adulthood. Candida died in Someo and Giacomo returned to California where he died in Hanford, Kings County, California, in 1917.

• Ancestor of contributor M. Tompkins.

Pedrotti (Padrött) of Giumaglio

The first parish census of 1692 in Giumaglio enumerated three Pedrotti families: Antonio Pedrotti (~1651-170X), son of Pietro; Giovanni Pedrotti (~1658-1700), the brother of Antonio and a widower with three children; and Giovanni Pedrotti (1668-1697), son of an elder Giovanni whose relationship to Pietro is unknown. It appears that the latter Giovanni’s line died out in 1697 and that only the two brother’s families survived to modern times, so essentially all Pedrottis of Giumaglio origin today trace back to Pietro and his two sons.

Angelo Pedrotti (1846-1895)

Brothers Giuseppe (1843-1926) and Angelo (1846-1895) emigrated to California and settled first in Bolinas Township, Marin County, California, by 1870. Giuseppe returned home to Giumaglio while Angelo married Luigia "Louisa" Beffa, settled in Olema, Marin County, and had eight children before their early deaths--hers about 1890 and his in 1895.

Their eldest brother Giovanni Pietro (1836-) emigrated to Australia years earlier in 1853.

Giuseppe and Angelo were first cousin to James Pedrotti and his brothers.

• Angelo was the ancestor of contibutor and distant cousin Sally Staley.

Pedrotti Brothers of Bolinas

Brothers Giovanni Gerolamo "James" (1850-), Giacomo Agostino "Gus" (1853-1924), Domenico (1857-1920), and Mattia Giuseppe "Mathias Joseph" (1860-1933) all emigrated to California between 1867 and 1876. Their father, Giovanni Giacomo Pedrotti (1820-1889), and his younger halfbrother, Giovanni Domenico Pedrotti (1834-1902), both worked in Australia 1853 to 1856. Giacomo returned to Giumaglio and Domenico ultimately continued on to Siskiyou County, California. James Pedrotti and his siblings settled in Bolinas Township, Marin County, California, by 1870.

The Pedrotti brothers were first cousins to brothers Giuseppe and Angelo Pedrotti.

• Gus was the grandfather of contributor and distant cousin Gene Pedrotti.

Louis Pedrotti

Luigi "Louis" Pedrotti was born in May 1851 or 1852, presumably in Valle Maggia. His mother Anna Maria Pedrotti was unwed and his father was unknown (padre ignoto). Louis emigrated to America in 1873 and married Anna Bella Parkerson in 1882. They settled in Llano Precinct on the southwest outskirts of Santa Rosa and had as many as six children.

Interestingly, Louis's closest relationship to the other Pedrottis goes all the way back, seven generations, to the "beginning" with Pietro Pedrotti (~1623-1683).

Pezzaglia of Coglio

The Pezzaglia family of Coglio all trace back to Giacomo Antonio Pezzaglia, who was baptized on April 6, 1658. His parents were Giacomo Pietro Pezzaglia and Domenica Muscio.

Romildo Anacleto Pezzaglia (1853-1938)

Romildo Anacleto Pezzaglia emigrated to America with his family in 1887. He married Bessie Leola Mayhood and settled in Rio Vista, Solano County, California. They had seven children.

• Grandfather of distant cousin R. Bryson.

Piezzi of Giumaglio

Anna Maria (Piezzi) Pisenti (1837-1881)

Anna Maria Piezzi married Giuseppe Pisenti, reportedly a native of Poscante, Province of Bergamo, Italy, in Giumaglio in 1868. Their son, James Pisenti (1871-1934) emigrated to California and settled in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County.

• Ancestor of distant cousin Mrs. M. Tompkins and Rod H.

Giuseppe Vittorio "Victor" Piezzi (1853-1938)

Victor emigrated in 1869^{[Cen 1930]} and married Luella Adella Wylie in 1877. He settled on Piezzi Road west of Santa Rosa.^{[Cen 1910]} He was a descendant of Giacomo Piezzi (1729->1781).

Vittorio Piezzi and Maurizio Sartori were first cousins through grandparents Giacomo Maria Piezzi & Maria Angiola Cerini.

Victor's sister Maria Angiolina Addolorata Piezzi married their second cousin Giuseppe Cerini and settled in Sonoma County, California.

Daughter Lucia Agnes (1879-1962) married Edward Lafranchi (1879-1960) in 1899.

• Victor was an ancestor of contibutors and distant cousins Parker Hall and Steven Dutton.

Pozzi (Pozzítt) of Giumaglio and Coglio

The earliest existing census of Giumaglio parish in 1692 counted 11 Pozzi households in four groups. A source of confusion is that three heads of household were named Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi, one was the town notary and another the town doctor. Not listed in the census, but yet again of the same name, was a fourth--Father Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi (~1619-1694), Vicar of Giumaglio. Finally, the neighboring village of Coglio was home to Don Giovanni Pozzi^•, who also had Giumaglio roots.

Charles & Morris Pozzi

Celestino "Charles" Pozzi (1848->1901) and Maurizio "Morris" Pozzi (1856-1927) were born in Giumaglio to the line of Don Doctor Giovanni Giacomo Pozzi (~1627-1694). Charles emigrated first in 1868 and then Morris followed in 1872. Charles married Giuditta Vanoni (1838-1894) of Aurigeno and settled in Vally Ford, Sonoma County. Giuditta's niece, Maria Celestina Vanoni (1858-1937) emigrated in 1876 and married Morris around 1878. They settled in Goleta, Santa Barbara County, but were enumerated in Bodega Township, Sonoma County, in 1880, and with brother Charles in Analy Township (Valley Ford) in 1900.

Charles and Morris were also maternal uncles to nephew Domenico Antonio Samuele Adami (1883-1966).

• Morris was a great-grandfather to contributor and distant cousin Ernest Pozzi.

Giuseppe Tomaso Pozzi (1820->1876)

Giuseppe Tomaso Pozzi was of the Coglio line of Don Giovanni Pozzi (1618-1696). He first married to Margherita Franzoni and had one son in 1846. Margherita died in 1849 and afterward Tomaso emigrated to Australia between 1852 and 1854 where he was quite "fortunate" ("con felice fortuna"^{[Cheda 338]}) as a shopkeeper. Tomaso returned to Switzerland and married Camilla Conelli in Coglio. They had seven children together and lived in Locarno. The family emigrated to California and son Alberto later moved to Mexico City.

Tomaso was a third cousin to Stefano Fabiano Pozzi (below), both descendants of Don Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (I).

• Tomaso was an ancestor to contributor Bernardo Orvañanos Murguia.

Placido Nazareno Pozzi (1862-1940)

Nazareno Pozzi was born in Giumaglio and emigrated to California in 1883. He married Eda C. Perinoni, a first-generation Californian with roots in Someo. They settled in Sonoma County as a dairy farmer. He and Eda had five children: Florindo, Rose, Lucy, Joseph, and Leo. Lucy went on to marry James Lafranchi, son of Morris.

• Nazareno and Eda were ancestors to contributor Susan LaFranchi Scinto.

Raffaele "Ralph" Pozzi (1864-1949)

Raffaele "Ralph" Pozzi married Virginia Bonetti and had one daughter, Giuglia who was born in Giumaglio and died 15 months later. Afterward, the Pozzis emigrated to Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, and evenutally Kent, King County, Washington. They had six children born in California and Washington.

Virginia was a younger sister to Giuseppe Valeriano Bonetti.

Stefano Fabiano Pozzi (1833-1922)

Stefano Fabiano Pozzi was born in Giumaglio but was of the Coglio line of Don Giovanni Pozzi. He apprenticed as a watchmaker in Geneva and emigrated to Australia in 1854. He returned home in 1860, married Giacomina Pedrazzini of Maggia in 1861, and had one son, who died in infancy. About 1870 they moved to Australia where they settled in Daylesford, Victoria, and had two daughters. Giacomina died in 1877 and Stefano remarried in 1880 to Mary Ann Page. He and Mary Ann had three more children.

Stefano was a third cousin to Giuseppe Tomaso Pozzi (above), both descendants of Don Giovanni Francesco Pozzi (I).

• Stefano was an ancestor to contributors John Dean and Helen Herbel.

Sartori of Giumaglio

Giovanni Pietro Sartori (Sr.) (1783-1834), son of Giovanni Giacomo Sartori (Sr.) (1759-1827), was grandfather to as many as 12 emigrants to California and Australia by four of his sons: Giovanni Giacomo (Sr.), Carlo Antonio Maria, Gioachimo, and Giovanni, addressed below in alphabetical order. Giovanni Pietro's daughter, Maria Angiola (Sartori) Piezzi was also mother to California emigrants.

Carlo Antonio Maria Sartori (1814-1887)

Three sons of Carlo Antonio Maria Sartori & Anna Maria Pedrotti emigrated to Yandoit, Victoria, Australia: Giovanni Pietro (1838-1897), Nazzaro (1840-1910), and Giacomo Pietro Sartori (1849-1891). Pietro emigrated in 1854.

• Ancestors of Carlene Sartori

Gioachimo Sartori (1822-1892)

Three sons of Gioachimo Sartori & and Maria Angiola Piezzi emigrated to California: Giovanni Pietro Vittorio (1859-1934), Maurizio "Morris" (1863-1953), and Arcangelo (1865-1940). The Sartori brothers were first cousins with Vittorio Piezzi through grandparents Giacomo Maria Piezzi & Maria Angiola Cerini.

Maurizio married Sabina Caporgno (1873-1964) of Someo and started a dairy ranch in Tomales, Sonoma County. He retired to Petaluma, Sonoma County.

Arcangelo married Maria Adella Genoveffa Lafranchi of Coglio.

Giovanni Sartori (1827-1911)

Giovanni Sartori (1827-1911) and Maria Addolorata Piezzi (1825-1885) had two sons who emigrated to America: Giovanni Pietro "Peter" Sartori (1854-1925) and Agostino "Gus" Sartori (1866-1942). Son Venanzio (1861) did not emigrate but at least one of his sons did.

Peter Sartori immigrated to California in 1872 and was a dairy rancher in Tomales, Marin County, and married Susan Anna Barry (1869-1944), a first-generation Irish-American born in Petaluma, Sonoma County. They had five children before they divorced and Peter ultimately settled in Petaluma.

Gus Sartori followed Peter to America in 1882. He started out ranching with Peter in Tomales before moving north to Mendocino County where he ranched along the coast from Point Arena to Cuffey's Cove. Gus did not marry.

Both Peter and Gus were buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma.

In addition to being cousins to the other grandchildren of Giovanni Pietro Sartori, Peter and Gus were also first cousins to Anna Maria (Piezzi) Pisenti, through her Sartori mother; and were first cousins to Giuseppe Vittorio Piezzi through their mother.

• Ancestors of Carol S.

Giovanni Giacomo Sartori (Sr.) (1811-1891)

Four sons of Giovanni Giacomo Sartori (Sr.) & Maria Caterina Sartori emigrated to California: Giovanni Pietro (1839-1910), Benedetto (1845-1877), Rafael (1849-1921), and Ignazio (1854-1915).

• Giovanni Pietro and is daughter Elvira (Sartori) Spaletta were ancestors to distant cousins M. (Spaletta) Boldt and Terrie T.

Eris Sartori

Eris Sartori was also a descendant of Giovanni Pietro Sartori (Sr.) through his son Giovanni (1827-1911) and grandson Venanzio (1861). She was born in Giumaglio but married and moved to Canobbio, upriver from Lugano in the southern part of Ticino.

• Eris was the grandmother of Matteo D.

Tognazzini of Someo

Giuseppe Antonio Tognazzini (1846-1906)

Giuseppe Antonio Tognazzini and wife Maria Maddalena Righetti, both of Someo, emigrated to San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California.