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name Barbuscio originated from the Lombards and was first recorded in 1145 |
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Why I created this Web site!
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| For years we thought we were the only people in the world with this name. My grandfather Luigi came to this country some time in the 1890s. We were told he was an orphan and assumed there were no relatives left behind. Recently through the power of the internet I've been discovering a growing number of potential "cousins". Recently I was contacted by the Australian "cousins" and we started wondering if we were somehow connected. | |
There are no members of my family still living that can be of any help in tracing my grandfathers roots. So I would very much like to borrow the memories of other Barbuscios
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a year ago I received an add from a company that said it was publishing "The New World Book of Barbuscios". My first reaction was that this would be a very short book. After the third solicitation my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to order a copy. To my surprise there were a lot more Barbuscios than I imagined. According to the book there are 118 Barbuscio households throughout the world: |
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They estimated the number of Barbuscio people to be:
What I hope to doI would like us to share our family trees with each other and maybe even connect the links between trees. There are several Luigi/Louis households listed here and Italian naming customs would imply some common ancestry. When you look at the list you'll see other first names that repeat again and again.
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scroller will be used to communicate any progress or news I have.
July 27,
2008 Got an Email to
add 2 more households in Rhode Island. I'm glad I fixed that Email
address: July 2, 2008 Daughter in Law Kelly started a family tree on Geni.com and got me poking around in their research capabilities as well as on Ancestry.com. Found my grand fathers name on New York Passenger List for March 29 1910 on the ship Martha Washington. This wouldn't have been his first voyage since my father was already born here in the US by that time. I also found a photo of the ship and a copy of granddad's World War I draft card, which was pretty amazing. Geni.com is an easy site to use and the research connections on Ancestry.com are great. June 23, 2008 just logged in to the site to add my Son and his family out in Colorado. The sites been quiet for a long time and I just realized why. The Email address that was listed has been dead for years. For anyone who tried to send me information in the last five years I apologize and I have entered my current Email address to the home page April 3, 2001 got E-mail from Mary Barbuscio in Canada: "My name is Mary Barbuscio. My parents, Pietro (Peter) and Emilia (nee Cesario) immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba before I was born. I am 31 and moved to BC almost 8 years ago. Thank you for getting this site up - it's good to know the origin of the name because we feel like we're so out of touch with our roots now." Mary gave me a family history and links to her relatives in Italy. I've added a Family Tree with her information and planted "Tree" link buttons in all of them that I have in my registry so far. April 1, 2001 - Got some E-mail from "Joe":
"Dear Lou, I would
like to know if we are close relatives. My wife's last name is
BARBUSCIO she was born in LAPPANO , CONSENZA ITALY, I have many uncles
in Italy with the last surname. Could you contact me if we are
close relatives? Joe"
I gave Joe some background information and steered him to this web site. I also asked him to send me more information on his wife's family and especially to check and identify her Italian Barbuscio's
March 6, 2001 - Received the following from Leslie Nicotera: "Hi, I found your page while
researching information for a trip to Italy I will Brother Charles Barbush (seeNov 9th below) also hails from PA so maybe they're linked? Feb 14, 2001 - The recent Annual Directory of POINT "Pursuing Our Italian Names Together", Listed 2 new Barbuscio related individuals. Joan Lindquist of Jackson, NJ and Denis Malto of Warner Robins, GA. I've sent them both E-mail and received an imediate response from Joan Lindquist with the following information.
"My great, great grandmother, Maria
Barbuscio, who was born and lived and died in Lappano, Cosenza,
Calabria, Italy, was the daughter of Domenico Barbuscio, a farmer (contadino)
and Teresa Gervisso (it could also be Gervasi, another common name in
Lappano).
Maria Barbuscio, my great,
great, grandmother on my maternal grandmother's side of the family, is
the only Barbuscio I know of in our family."
We have added Joan under New Jersey and a Family Tree for Maria Barbuscio Nov 9th through 12th
2000. I attended an RCIA workshop at St. Elizabeth's College in Convent
Station NJ. A fellow participant, Bro. Charlie Barbush, approached me
because he recognized the name Barrbuscio as the name his grandfather
was born with and later legally changed to the more phonetic spelling,
BARBUSH. This interested me on both counts since my own father,
Dominick Barbuscio, having grown up in an Italian section of north
Jersey was called Bob and Barbush (neopolitans of that era always seem
to drop that last vowel). The name stuck so much that a lawyer's
secretary who filed for his Social Security registration assumed his
name was Robert Barbush. It was 25 years later that he actually
corrected his SS records. I've added Charlie to the records in the New
Jersey section of the USA page. You can send him E-mail at brcharlesbarbush@aol.com .............................................. |
