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RECORD OF THE SOLEMN PROMISE
to celebrate
matrimony |
[p. 1]
Number
4
Year 18
fifty-one,
day
thirteen
of the month of
February
at hour
tewnty-three,
before Us,
Rosario Cristaldi Second
Councilman
and official of the Civil Record of the town of
Sant'Antonio
district of
Aci Reale,
Province of
Catania,
have appeared in the Town Hall:
Giuseppe
Coppola
age
twenty-four,
born in
Aci Santi Antonio e Filippo,
district of
Aci Reale,
Province of
Catania, occupation
stonemason,
living in
this town,
son of
unknown parents,
age
______
occupation
______ living
____,
and
of
________
age
_______,
living
____;
and
Agata Barbagallo,
age
twenty-one,
born in
Aci Bonaccorsi,
living
here,
daughter of
the late Giuseppe age
___,
occupation
___ living
____,
and daughter of
Palma
Corsaro
age
forty-eight,
who lives
here.
The couple,
in the
presence of
witnesses who
will be
mentioned below,
and produced by them,
have
requested to receive
their solemn
pro-
[p. 2]mise to celebrate
prior to the
Church ceremony,
according to the
format
prescribed
by the Sacred
Council of
Trent for the
marriage which they plan between them
with the
consent of the said bride and groom and
the mother of the bride and allowed by
us
The notice of this promise was affixed
to the door of the town hall of
this town on
Sunday the
nineteenth day of the
month of
January of the
current year.
We, in accordance
with
their request,
after having
read
them
all the
consistent
documents:
First,
the birth record of the groom
Second, the birth record of the bride
Third, the
death record of the father of the bride
Fourth, the death record of her
grandfather
Fifth, the marriage banns made in the
town of Aci Bonaccorsi, to which there
have been no objections
Sixth, a copy of the banns posted in
[p. 3]
this Town, to which there have been no
objections bride.
and
having also read chapter six
under the title of
marriage
of the
civil laws
regarding the
respective
rights and obligations
of the spouses,
we have received from
each
of the parties,
one after
the other, the
declaration, that they
solemnly
promise to
celebrate
marriage
before the
Church in
the format
prescribed
by the
Holy Council
of Trent. |
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We made
the record of all this
in the presence
of
four witnesses
attending
the solemn
promise of marriage:
Priest
Don Giuseppe Balsamo,
age
fifty-seven,
occupation
Landowner
subject of the Realm of the Knigdom of Two Sicilies, living
here;
Don
Gaetano Finocchiaro,
age forty-three,
occupation
Landowner
[p. 4]
Subject of the Realm,
also
living
here;
Giuseppe
Battista,
age
thirty-nine,
occupation
stonemason Subject of the Realm, living
here;
and Alfio
la Zara
age
forty,
occupation
barman subject of the realm,
living
here.
We have read
this record, which is inscribed on the two registers, to
the witnesses
and
the bride and
groom, to whom
we have also
given two consistent
copies signed
by Us, to be
presented to the
parish priest,
to whom the celebration
of the
marriage pertains,
and then
it is signed
by us
atogether with the witnesses
Balsamo and Finocchiaro and not by the others because
they don't know how to write. |
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[Signed]
Priest Giuseppe
Balsamo, witness
Gaetano Finocchiaro, Winess
[Signed]
for the Mayor due to
his inability,
the Second Councilman
Rosario Cristaldi
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The right portion of the record is the
"Indication of the Subsequent Celebration of
Cononical Matrimony", which shows that the
church received the Promise and replied to the Town
Offices that the marriage took place in the Parish of
Sant'Antonio on the fifteenth of February, 1851. |
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