Forwarded with permission. If you can be of help to Dario, please reply to him directly: [email protected] Thanks. ==================================== Hello, I am Dario Sardelli. My english isn't so good, but I'll try to tell you the story of a grand-grandfather of me. His name was Vincenzo Sardelli and he left from San Vito dei Normanni in Italy to SF in the first years of 1900. He lived in SF until the great hearthquake. He was good looking and strong. Soon after the great disaster ha came back in his town in Italy and he never talked with his friend about his long journey in California. He fell in love with a pretty young girl in Italy, he made a lot of money working hard and made his girl pregnant. But he didn't want to marry with her. This was very "unconvenient" in Italy in 1915. So the mother of this girl told him "if you don' marry my daughter, I'll kill you with my naked hands and this big knife!". So they became husband and wife. When his wife was pregnant of the fourth baby, the baby died. His brother told him: "You've got three boys, anyway" and he answered "Oh, they are more than four..." My uncle went in SF two years ago and he found my grandgrandfather was married there in SF, but my uncle lives in England and I can't contact him. Will you help me to know if he was actually married there? I hope to have an answer from you soon. Thank you! Dario [email protected] =================

Hello Dario, I found that there is a newspaper article in the San Francisco Call Data Base that tells us about the death of someone with the same name as your Grand-Grandfather. This index listing tell us that this man died in 1889 at the age of 37 years old... Do you know the birth year of your Grand-Grandfather? I don't have the newspaper article but it is available if you would like to see it. The article might not tell us much about him - but it might....... The year of this death, 1889, is near to the "first years of 1900" that you mention - so I found this interesting. Is this the same family - same man??? Or perhaps this is a common name for Italian men of that time period??? From the SF Call Data Base: Sardelli, Vincenzo... died in 1889 ... age 37 ...1889D-4822 I found no marriage or births for that surname Sardelli, recorded in this index - which is really the only source for these events that occurred this early (before 1905). If I can help, further, please ask. Good luck, Ruth _______________________________ Ruth (Grady) Skewis [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Pamela Storm Wolfskill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 8:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CASANFRA] Vincenzo Sardelli in SF > > Forwarded with permission. If you can be of help to Dario, > please reply to him directly: [email protected] > > Thanks. > > ==================================== > Hello, > I am Dario Sardelli. My english isn't so good, but I'll try > to tell you the story of a grand-grandfather of me. > His name was Vincenzo Sardelli and he left from San Vito dei > Normanni in Italy to SF in the first years of 1900. He lived > in SF until the great hearthquake. He was good looking and > strong. Soon after the great disaster ha came back in his > town in Italy and he never talked with his friend about his > long journey in California. > He fell in love with a pretty young girl in Italy, he made a > lot of money working hard and made his girl pregnant. But he > didn't want to marry with her. This was very "unconvenient" > in Italy in 1915. So the mother of this girl told him "if you > don' marry my daughter, I'll kill you with my naked hands and > this big knife!". So they became husband and wife. > When his wife was pregnant of the fourth baby, the baby died. > His brother told him: "You've got three boys, anyway" and he > answered "Oh, they are more than four..." > My uncle went in SF two years ago and he found my > grandgrandfather was married there in SF, but my uncle lives > in England and I can't contact him. > Will you help me to know if he was actually married there? > I hope to have an answer from you soon. > Thank you! > Dario > [email protected] > ================= > > > ==== CASANFRA Mailing List ==== > Bulletin Boards at sfgenealogy.com: > http://www.sfgenealogy.com/boards/ >