Giuseppe Biundo (1823) and Giacoma Mangiapane (1830)

Baptism

Giuseppe Biundo was born in Cinisi in 1823 to Salvatore Biundo and Francesca Vitale.

Below is a copy of his baptism recorded at Santa Fara Vergine church. His is the second one recorded on the left hand side.

These were typically written in Latin (or as close to Latin as the person writing it knew). Antonio Palazzalo was the priest. As you can see it lists the parents as Salvatore Biundo and Francesca Vitale and the infant as Joseph (Latin for Giuseppe).

At the end it says that the godparents (patrini fuere) were Jacobus (likely Latin for Giacomo) Bommarito and Hyeromina (can’t read her last name).

Marriage

Giuseppe Biundo married Giacoma Mangiapane February 3rd, 1850. Below is a copy of their marriage record (second on the left hand side).

It says the priest was Joseph (Latin for Giuseppe) Misuraca. It confirms that the parents were Salvatore Biundo and Francesca Vitale. It says that Josephum (Giuseppe) Biundo was marrying Jacobam (Giacoma) Mangiapane, and that she was the daughter of Jacobam Mangiapane and Phara Lentini. It says Giuseppe Biundo was from the commune of Cinisi, and I believe it’s saying that she was from the same. It also says they’d done the period of examination or interrogation of the familes and found no obstacles to the marriage. It lists the witnesses to the marriage as Antonio Maniaci and Phillipo di Santo.

Children

Though there are records that Giuseppe Biundo and Giacoma Mangiapane had more children, the three we know of that lived to adulthood are Salvatore, Francesca, and Giuseppe. Those are the three that were recorded in Connie’s bible as well. And there are marriage records and records of descendants from those three.

Also, the tradition in families was to name the first male child after the father’s father, the first female child after the father’s mother, the second male child after the mother’s father, and the second female child after the mother’s mother. After that, if more children lived, they’d name them after other close family members.

Thus, you can see how their children were named as follows. When you see repeats of a name among siblings, that is indication in itself that the former child (or children) named did not survive.

In 1850, Salvatore was born and named after his paternal grandfather. He survived and went on to marry and have descendants.

Gaetano (who was born in 1857) was named after his maternal grandfather but didn’t survive.

Francesca (who was born in 1858) was named after her paternal grandmother but didn’t survive.

Francesco (born in 1859) was probably another attempt to name after the paternal grandmother but only lived a short while.

In 1860 there was another child born, named Gaetano again after the maternal grandfather but it seems this child did not survive either, at least not to adulthood (uncertain on this).

In 1862, another child was born and named Francesca in attempt again to honor the paternal grandmother. This Francesca did survive and went on to marry and have descendants.

In 1865, another child was born and named Fara after the maternal grandmother though it seems she did not survive.

In 1872, Giuseppe was born (our direct ancestor) who obviously survived, married, and went on to have descendants.

It is likely that either Gaetano was still alive when Giuseppe was born, or Giuseppe’s father was very ill. Those are the two potential reasons that the naming pattern would have been skipped.
Otherwise Giuseppe would have been named Gaetano, as they would still want to honor the maternal grandfather with a child of that name if the previous had not lived. That was the naming pattern they adhered to, similar to how they did for Francesca in honor of the paternal grandmother. Instead Giuseppe received the same name as his father.
At any rate, I haven’t seen any further record of the 1860 Gaetano, and the record in Connie’s bible (which she would have gotten from her mother Jacomina) only mentioned the three siblings, indicating that they are probably the ones who survived to adulthood.

Also I have not seen any further record or mention of the Nicolo born the next year in 1873.

The children we know of that lived to adulthood and had descendants were as follows, Giuseppe Biundo being our direct line, Salvatore and Francesca his siblings. The above explainsx why there were such age gaps between, and why Giuseppe Biundo’s siblings we know of were so much older than him. You can click any of the links to read more about them.

Salvatore Biundo (1850) married Caterina (Rosalia) Ferrante
Francesca Biundo (1862) married Giuseppe Maltese
Giuseppe Biundo (1872-1910) married Girolama Pardo