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I came across this while doing a search for my great-aunt Jennie's husband, Gabriel Bruno. Family lore is that he died in prison and Jennie remarried. I only discovered his name when I obtained the marriage cerificate for their only child, Charles Bruno. I doubt the Gabriel on this page is the one I'm looking for, but it was the other names on the document that surprised me. There are 19 people from Bella, the hometown of my great-grandparents in Italy. More interesting, in the join a relative column, several give the address "Cross Highway Westport Conn". This is the street where I grew up, and in 1901 was mostly farms. Did my great-grandfather provide a source of employment to those still in Italy that wanted to come to the USA? Was this a cheap source of labor? How many more people may have made the journey to come and work for my great-grandfather? It is amazing what a ship manifest can tell you about the history of your family, even when they are not mentioned.
