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Italian wedding party. From comparison with other family
photos, our contributor believes that the older man sitting at front right is
probably Domenico/Dominick Cafarelli. Dominick was the oldest son of
Vincenzo/Vincent Cafarelli and Grazia/Grace Sarubbi. Dominick and Grace were
born in Accettura, Matera, Basilicata, Italy, and Vincent was born in the
nearby town of Ferrandina. Vincenzo's mother, Maria Gaetana Mastronardi, came
from the town of Craco, and Grace's father, Giuseppe Sarubbi, came from
Stigliano. Grace's grandparents in Accettura had the surnames DiLorenzo and
Lacovara. We cannot identify any of the
other people in this photo, but wonder if the woman at the front left was
Beatrice Viggiano Cafarelli, daughter of Leonardo Viggiano and Filomena
Langone, and the bride was perhaps her younger sister. Dominick and Beatrice
both immigrated from Accettura, Dominick in 1886 at the age of nine and
Beatrice in 1900. They married in New York City in 1902 and moved to the Bronx
between 1910 and 1920. They had no children. Dominick later raised a family
with Vitina Cuti from Ciminna, Palermo, Sicily, but Vitina does not appear in
this photo.
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