"ora impedito" in birth records
I am researching a family who lived in Castellammare di Stabia near Napoli in the 1860s. At a certain point the kids' birth records would include after the father's living situation "ed ora impedito." Any idea what that means? It also lists the mother's residence as "Case di Landolfi." See image
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For "ora impedito" - it means he was too busy or otherwise unable to go to the town hall to declare the birth himself
As for the place of residence of the mother and father in the "strada Cantiere, case di Landolfi", this would require expert local knowledge to understand. Italy only got its modern street names and house numbers in the 1870s so any place names from before that time will be completely undecipherable without local knowledge.
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Thanks! Are you aware of any resources local to the Napoli area? I speak Italian fairly well so they don't need to speak English.
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@JordanWJohnsen What kind of resources do you mean?
If it's regarding these street names, there's no real resource per se. Technically, land records do exist in Italy and I assume using these it would be possible to translate a pre-1870 address to a modern geographic location. I have no experience to share there as I've never attempted anything like that, but I understand it is very complex. I certainly wouldn't recommend endeavoring on something like that just to discover the location of an ancestor's house.
What I meant in my comment is that to know what that street name means and where it is located requires somebody old and knowledgeable who has lived in the town their whole lives. As I wrote, the Italian government went through a massive process of revamping all street names and assigning house numbers during the 1870s. For any records later than this era, it's very easy to identify the exact house our ancestors lived in (assuming the cityscape has not changed), but for anything before this era, it's honestly next to hopeless to actually determine where the locations physically are. That said, although the street names were all changed in the 1870s, people continued to use the traditional names for decades, and so a very old person would be able to recognize some of these place names and tell you where they are. In my case, my grandparents (born 1920s, now passed away) were absolutely able to recognize many pre-1870 locations and even help find them on a map. Some of my older relatives (born 1940s-1950s) who still live in our ancestral town can do the same. Now I'm from a very small rural town, so I imagine it'd be different in a big city like Castellammare di Stabia which experienced heavy urbanization in the post-war era (it's basically a suburb of Naples now). Few of the people who live in Castellammare today would be from there historically, which would make it that much harder to find someone who'd recognize these place names.
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