Angelo Palermo

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 204 Lisbon Ave, Buffalo, New York
• Census: 1 Jun 1925, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York

Notes:

Census:
Relation to Head: Son

Family/Spouse: Rose Laura Paolucci. Rose (daughter of Calcedonio Paolucci and Josephine Semente) was born on 24 Mar 1916 in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York; died on 3 Feb 1999 in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York; was buried in Cheektowaga, Erie Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: “Car Repair” on the railroad
• Religion: Catholic
• Emigration date: 14 Feb 1901, Naples, Campania, Italy
• Immigration date: 25 Feb 1901, Ellis Island, Upper New York Bay, New York
• Arrival: 30 Mar 1909, New York City, New York
• Census: 1910, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1915, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1925, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1935, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Residence: 1941, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York

Notes:

He immigrated on Feb. 25, 1901 on the ship "Columbia," which had embarked from Naples, Italy. His last given census in Italy was Ferrazzano. This is right next to Campobosso, in the center of Italy. He was aged 20 at the time. He gives his destination as Buffalo, New York. He says he is coming to visit his brother Giovanni, who must be the one whom family history records as “John.”

He does not seem to be traveling with family, but he is traveling with 13 other people from Ferrazzano and Campobasso. The person in the line above his is also traveling to Buffalo: Filippo Baranello, aged 21.

His WWI draft registation card confirms that he was born that same year, and gives a more precise birthdate. I take his name as spelled from his gravestone and his immigration record.

The 1920 census gives his citizenship as 1900—in Pennsylvania.

He got a job on the Lehigh valley railroad. He would always ask for a pass for the family to go shopping in NY.

There is no “Angelo” (as his child) with this family on the 1920 census, though family history places him there. Could Thomas also have been called Angelo?

He does not appear with his wife in the 1930 census: could he have died that early?

Birth:
His name is not in the SSDI.

Immigration date:
Aboard the "Columbia." Seems to have traveled alone.

Census:
aged 26, born in Italy, as with both parents; has had 3 children; car cleaner for the railroad

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head. Living in the household next to his wife's parents, at the same address (259).

Census:
Relation to Head: Head; Residence Marital Status: Married; age 37, born in Italy, mother tongue is Italian; “car repairer” for the Steam R.R.

Census:
Relation to Head: Head

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head; as “Tony Palermo”; works in car repair on the Railroad

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head

Epifanio married Rosina "Rose" Battista on 14 Apr 1907 in St. Lucy's Church, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York. Rosina (daughter of Angelo Domenico Battista and Theresa Raimondo) was born on 23 Mar 1892 in New York State; died in Dec 1968 in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York; was buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: housewife
• Census: 1905, 57 Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1915, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1925, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1935, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Residence: 1941, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York

Notes:

She was very outgoing, and was a legal aide for immigrant Italians, since she could understand both Italian and English.

In the 1920 census she and her husband with their children are living in the same house as her parents and their younger children, at 259 Seneca St. in Buffalo--13 people in all, under one roof.

Census:
aged 19, born in New York; both parents born in Italy; has had 3 children, 1 is living; speaks Italian

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Wife; aged 24. Living in the household next to her parents.

Census:
Relation to Head: Wife; Residence Marital Status: Married; aged 28, born in Italy, mother tongue is Italian

Census:
Relation to Head: Wife

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Daughter; aged 37; does housework for a private home

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife

Notes:

Married:
Ecclesiastical Record of St. Lucia's

Notes:

His name is on his children's bith records and his sons’ Social Security applications (Serafino’s, Epifanio’s, and Giovanni’s). He was born in Italy, presumably in Campobosso as his children were, and it seems clear that he did not immigrate.

All of their children named their oldest sons Carmine and their eldest daughters Felicia.

Carmine married Maria Felicia Valentino on 20 Feb 1874 in Ferrazzano, Campobasso, Molise, Italy. Maria (daughter of Seraphino Valentino and Dorothea Lombardi) was born about 1852 in Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Like her husband, she never immigrated to the U.S. Her name is on her sons' birth and marriage records. All of their children named their oldest sons Carmine and their eldest daughters Felicia. A granddaughter was named after her as well.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration date: Abt 1885
• Naturalization: 1896
• Census: 1905, 57 Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1910, 259 Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1915, 259 Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1920, 259 Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1925, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Residence: 1935, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Residence: 1938, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York

Notes:

The 1915 New York State census says that he was lived in the US for 30 years, and was a US Citizen—so, had immigrated in 1885, according to this. In this 1915 census he is living with Antonio Palermo’s family and Serafino Palermo’s family—19 people all under one roof.

The 1920 census records his year of immigration as 1885, that he is naturalized, and the date of naturalization as 1896.

In 1890 an Angelo Battista, “peasant,” immigrated from Italy on 27 May on the ship Birmania. He was aged 39, so by age this may have been him, but no other information is evident that might confirm this. An Angelo Battista, aged 61, arrived on May 21, 1911, aged 61; he is described as an American citizen. The age is clearly close enough to have been him on a return trip. There is also an Angelo Battista about the same age—born abt. 1850—from Caccavone (?) in Italy who comes through Ellis Island several times (1894, 1898, 1911), and lives with his family in Canton, Ohio. His wife, Mary, died before 1910, according to the census. This won’t be the same person, but a relative, maybe?

He was in any event living in Buffalo, according to Directories, by abt. 1903. Where were he and his family in the 1900 census?

In the 1920 census he and his wife with their younger children are living in the same house as his daughter Rose’s family, at 259 Seneca St. in Buffalo—13 people in all, under one roof.

The 1938 Buffalo City Directory lists Angelo Battista, with wife “Tresa,” living at 51 Myrtle. At the same address are Carmela, and George (as “lab,” or “laborer”).

Immigration date:
date according to the 1905, 1920, and 1930 censuses.

Naturalization:
According to 1920 census

Census:
aged 52, born in Italy; father of 8 children, 8 still living. Note that the rest of the family follows not one but two pages later.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Head; aged 50, born in Italy; laborer; US Citizen. He is named Domenico Battista on this census. On Ancestry and FamilySearch the 1915 Census for this family appears when searching the 1905 census.

Census:
Relation to Head: Head; Residence Marital Status: Married; aged 65, first language is Italian; he is a “car cleaner” for the Steam R.R.

Census:
Relation to Head: Head

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head; aged 77, year of immigration given as 1883; naturalization is “N/A”

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117976095/battista

Angelo married Theresa Raimondo. Theresa (daughter of Modestino Raimondo and Francesca Grappa) was born on 4 Feb 1875 in San Martino in Pensilis, Campobosso, Molise, Italy; died on 5 Mar 1941 in Buffalo, Erie Co., New York; was buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration date: Abt 1890
• Census: 1905, 57 Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1910, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1915, 259 Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1920, Seneca St., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1925, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1930, Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Residence: 1938, 51 Myrtle Ave., Buffalo, Erie Co., New York
• Census: 1940, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York

Notes:

Last name is also Reimundi, Raymunda, Raimundo, Romondo. This specific birth record is an assumption; this record is the only Theresa Raimundo born in Campbosso between 1865 and 1880, according to the cited database. Other records would give her birth in Campobosso abt. 1872.

According to the 1905 census, she had been in the US for 15 years, and according to the 1915 Census she had been in the US for 27 years. So, she immigrated in about 1885-88. I can't seem to find her on any ship's manifest. She would have been here by 1892 when her oldest child was born.

In the 1920 census she and her husband with their younger children were living in the same house as her daughter Rose’s family, at 259 Seneca St. in Buffalo—13 people in all, under one roof.

Two of her children, Mildred and John, married two children of Angelo Vaccaro.

Birth:
I assume that this is her, if this birth record is correct.

Immigration date:
date according to the 1905, 1920, and 1930 censuses.

Census:
aged 38; mother of 8 children, 8 still living. Note that the rest of the family follows not one but two pages later.

Census:
Relation to Head of House: Wife; aged 44, born in Italy; has lived in the US for 27 years; houseworker

Census:
Relation to Head: Wife; Residence Marital Status: Married; aged 48, born in Italy, first language is Italian

Census:
Relation to Head: Wife

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife; aged 58; year of immigration is given as 1890

Census:
Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife

Died:
This is probably her. The entry only gives the date, place (Buffalo), and “Battista, Sex F”

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147288312/teresa-battista

Epiphanio married Maria Giuseppa Lammanna. Maria and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Seraphino married Dorothea Lombardi. Dorothea and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

name on son’s Campobosso baptismal record

Gregorio married Carmela Alfieri. Carmela and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

name on son’s Campobosso baptismal record

Notes:

I assume that these are Theresa Raimundo's parents. She seems to be the only one born in Campbosso around this time.

Modestino married Francesca Grappa. Francesca and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I assume that these are Theresa Raimundo's parents. She seems to be the only one born in Campbosso around this time.