Relationships in a catasto onciario

SuzVS

Hello everyone,

This is an edited post, the original was deleted because of an unauthorized image attached or because it contained a link to an external website. My apologies to the moderators, I was unaware of the rules. Here is the best I can transcribe and I hope someone can help.

I recently came across a record in the Cosenza State Archives and it lists ancestors of mine. My main question is how I should read the relationships on the record. I have transcribed the names, occupations and ages as they appear. My question: is Allegrizza Cosco the mother of the head of this household?

"Francesco Cupolillo bracciale ---- an 37

Felice Scovino Moglie --- an 27

Gius.e figlio bracciale -- an 14

Simone fig. --- an 7

Maria Teresa figlia --- an 3

Isabella figlia --- an 1

Nicola fratto bracciale --- an 29

Maddalena Perrotta Moglie --- an 28

Rosa figlia --- an 1

Allegrizza Cosco Mad.e -- - an 60"

Many thanks,

Suzana Stucka

DangKwei

No, the first listed is the HOH in Catasto. This is consistent with the index, assuming your commune has one.

SuzVS

I could not find an index for the commune, unfortunately.

I undertstand the first name is the HOH, my question is whether the last person on the list, with "mad.e" after her name, is the HOH's mother.

Thanks.

DangKwei

Apologies, I misread your question. I would say yes, considering the second 'family' on the list is his brother and relations are to the HOH in general. That would either mean she's the mother of both or they had different mothers since we couldn't assume she'd be the mother of his brother as well. What commune is this, BTW?

SuzVS

This is the commune of Paola in the State of Cosenza and we know the two men were brothers. I had their father's name but not the mother's, so this record solves the problem of a missing name I have had on this tree for many years. Thank you so much for your kind help.

DangKwei

That commune does have indices, BTW. They start on image 0745 (on page 15). They're indexed by first name (men, then widows, then virgins, then monks/church, and foreigners, usually).

The site is not convenient to navigate and is slow at times. I wrote a script to download all my commune's images (since there aren't that many), left it running overnight, and browse them offline in a more efficient viewer. We were missing data points in our analyses that were resolved via this method, so I recommend the same.

SuzVS

Thank you, I had not seen the indexes. I just found out about these records yesterday, and I'm currently taking a crash course on how to use them. A big part of my family hails from that commune, and until now I thought I could not research anything prior to the civil records that started in 1810.

I will ask my husband who is more versed in writing script to see if we can find a way to download all the records, although there are so many in this case, almost 900. Thank you so much for helping me. 🙂