Forgive me if I'm repeating myself - I do this these days. It's called 'a senior moment'! Many thanks for your advice. I will endeavour to obtain the Clerkenwell fiche as a starting point. Also thanks for the book titles. They will prove interesting I'm sure. Cheers, Diane -----Original Message----- From: Daphne Dashfield [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] EROTTI/EROTY Hello Diane > An 1861 London census would be a good starting point, or so I thought, until > someone suggested it would take me 2 years to search the fiche, since I > don't know what area they may have lived in London. You could try Clerkenwell since most Italians lived there at that time. > Would you mind giving the full title of the book & author you have suggested > please? The Italian Factor : The Italian Community in Great Britain. Terri Colpi. 1991. Mainstream, Edinburgh. For photographs: Italians Forwards : A Visual History of the Italian Community in Great Britain. Terri Colpi. 1991. Mainstream, Edinburgh. Daphne Dashfield (Geradine) GHIRARDANI etc. ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== Italian Research http://www.dreamwater.net/anglersrest/Italian.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Another book to add to the ones Diane mentions below is: Italian Immigrants in Nineteenth Century Britain: Realities and Images by Lucio Sponza, Leicester University Press, 1988. (It's out of print but I got my copy second-hand off the internet.) "The major theme of this volume is the history of the [immigrants'] adaptation to, and conflict with, the host society. The immigrants' social and regional origin is analysed, and emphasis laid on the relationship between the changing attitudes towards them (especially towards those who settled in the 'Italian Quarter' of London) and the immigrants' response..." I haven't read Terri Colpi's The Italian Factor, but I've got her Italian's Forward. Lucio Sponza concludes that the Italian emigrants to Britain didn't emerge as a "cohesive and socially conscious community" But then his book ends its analysis at the start of WW1. Terry Colpi concludes in Chapter 10 that "the future of the Italian Community in Britain, which numbers at least 250,000 people [in 1992], is bright." Rod Cassino: Melaragni, Persechini, Lanna/Lanni, D'Agostino. Settesorelle di Vernasca: Dadomo. Tomassio? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Webb" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: RE: [Anglo-Italian] EROTTI/EROTY > Forgive me if I'm repeating myself - I do this these days. It's called 'a > senior moment'! > > Many thanks for your advice. I will endeavour to obtain the Clerkenwell > fiche as a starting point. Also thanks for the book titles. They will > prove interesting I'm sure. Cheers, Diane > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daphne Dashfield [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] EROTTI/EROTY > > > Hello Diane > > > An 1861 London census would be a good starting point, or so I thought, > until > > someone suggested it would take me 2 years to search the fiche, since I > > don't know what area they may have lived in London. > > You could try Clerkenwell since most Italians lived there at that time. > > > Would you mind giving the full title of the book & author you have > suggested > > please? > > The Italian Factor : The Italian Community in Great Britain. Terri Colpi. > 1991. Mainstream, Edinburgh. > > For photographs: > > Italians Forwards : A Visual History of the Italian Community in Great > Britain. Terri Colpi. 1991. Mainstream, Edinburgh. > > Daphne Dashfield (Geradine) > GHIRARDANI etc. > >