Message forwarded by Deputy List Owner - please do not reply to me. Regards, Carol, (Tree Tops) FAMILY TREE & WELL MEET AGAIN - Free Query Service: SKY NEWS British TV Text Pages 267 & 268, http://freespace.virgin.net/tree.tops/ http://freespace.virgin.net/tt.indexes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: Jean Spence <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 14 July, 2002 18:43 Subject: MENCARINI ancestors My ancestor, Giuseppe MENCARINI, was first recorded in England in 1838 when he married an English girl at Stockton on Tees in the parish church. She was from Nottingham and they went to that city for the birth of their first child, Sarah. Sarah's baptism was recorded in the newly built St Barnabas RC Cathedral 1841. From there they went to Sheffield where another child was born and then in to London, Clerkenwell, where three more children were born, lived and died. Giuseppe came from Tuscany, a village near Lucca - San Salvatore/Monte Carlo. My question is: which port might Giuseppe have left from in Italy and where might he have landed in Britain - could it have been Middlesbrough or Hartlepool? Does anyone know of an Italian community in Nottingham in 1830s/1840s? I am told that the RC cathedral was built by an Italian company, don't know if that is true. As a matter of interest, we have just had an Italian restaurant opened in our town and the owner brought in all Italian craftsmen to fit the place out - tilers, plasterers, etc. He told us it was very common to do that in Italian restaurants here. Jean Spence