Re: have some question
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have some question
Joseph Mariani 10/23/07
when was your Giovanni Born......My gt gt was born in Milan May 1805 left Italy in 1844 for England and then Havana Cuba as a musician in opera from 1846-1850 then he settled in NYC and performed in Opera there. at that time he lived on Staten Island with the tenor Lorenzo Salvi, Antonio and Ester Meucci and Gen. Giuseppi Garibaldi for a few years. he married Julia McCabe in abt 1855 NYC or Mass, he had children Joseph Charles Garibadi Mariani, John Frances Mariani, William Thomas Mariani and my gt grandmother Julia Mariani Mcguire and most were born in Boston Mass and all moved back to NYC where father Giovanni Domenico Mariani played in Opera until 1885 and settled in Brooklyn along Cumberland Street(Navyyard) he died in 1894 as his daughter Julia did of child birth. some might have stortend the name to Marian?