In a message dated 07/23/2002 2:00:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Do you want your names on the Members' Interests list? > Have you any dates, or origins in Italy? > > > There was a girl named Mazzone/i at scjool with me in > Muswell Hill in the 1950s. Sticks in my mind as a > fellow Italian name. > > Shane > [email protected] Tell me more, Shane. I know very little about England and want to learn. I only know about the Clerkenwell area because of a cousin I found of Italian descent who lives in England. He told me that his grandfather or great grandfather went to England from Senerchia, Italy and settled there. I truly am not sure of the time period for Federico Cozzi arriving in England. Yes, Mazzone/i is Italian.... very much so. A few days ago I was in a book store and ran across a book called "London." It was a rather thick book and I quickly located Clerkenwell in the index and read about it. From about the 1860's onward, it was a heavily Italian settled area. I do know that my great grandfather Federico Papa went to the U.S. in 1882. I'm not sure when others from the Senerchia area began leaving Italy, but anyone who lived in Senerchia very well may be related to me. Or at least, quite a few of them. It was a small mountain village of only about 3,000 and probably relatively poor. My great grandmother was Rosaria Cozzi. I believe they married in Italy, as he came to the U.S. with his oldest son, who was still fairly young. Rosaria didn't appear in the U.S. until 1887 with the other children who were born in Italy. None of their children were born in England. I do have others who did have children born in London, and then who traveled to the U.S. Denise Wells List-Owner, IRL-Cavan-L Editor, The Irish Everywhere Newsletter - subscribe by sending email to [email protected] Cos. Cavan & Longford IrelandGenWeb Project coordinator http://www.irelandgenweb.com