CHIOCCHI

[Lee Deutrom]

Hi All

I don't know if anyone here can assist me but here I go anyhow..

My 4x great-grandfather Louis Bernard CHIOCCHI was born c179 somewhere in
Italy.
He was a figurine maker or, as he termed it on the various British censuses:
an artist in plaster.
He apparently married an Elizabeth Someone-or-Other who was born in Dublin,
Ireland, and their first child, Catherine, was also born in Dublin c1825
while their 3 sons were all born in Liverpool, England.

So far, I can find no documentation as to where he was from, and that
includes naturalisation records.

Some people have implied that, if he was a craftsman / figure maker, he
would have been from the Tuscany region....

Any thoughts or ideas VERY welcome

Lee Deutrom

Melbourne Australia

[Joe Pessarra]

"Lee Deutrom" <ldeu...@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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Not a lot of help, but there are 145 Chiocchi listings in the Italy phone
directory at http://www.paginebianche.it/index.html

Sounds like you need a more definitive idea of where he came from in Italy.

Joe in Georgetown, Texas, USA

[sisibo]

On 27 Apr, 13:45, "Lee Deutrom" <ldeut...@ihug.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All

> Some people have implied that, if he was a craftsman / figure maker, he
> would have been from the Tuscany region....

http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html

This is the distribution in Italy of the surname Chiocchi.
It is not correct to say that he would have been from Tuscany because
he was a figure maker, a plaster. Also in the city where I'm living
(Faenza in the province of Ravenna- Region Emilia Romagna) there were
many artists in plaster, and many old houses have the ceilings painted
very well.
In this region (Emilia Romagna) there are 4 Chiocchi

http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=101&tc=&cb=&tq=2&qs=Chiocchi&qsn=&dv=Emilia+Romagna&ind=&nc=

Here there are the addresses of the Archivio di Stato in this region:

http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=104&tc=&cb=&tq=2&qs=Archivio+di+Stato&dv=emilia+romagna&ind=&nc=

You can write them and ask if in their Archives there is a birth
certificate or a military service certificate of your anchestor.

The same thing you can do for Tuscany:

http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=104&tc=&cb=&tq=2&qs=Archivio+di+Stato&dv=Toscana&ind=&nc=

In Umbria:

http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=104&tc=&cb=&tq=2&qs=Archivio+di+Stato&dv=Umbria&ind=&nc=

Lazio:

http://www.paginebianche.it/execute.cgi?btt=1&tl=2&tr=104&tc=&cb=&tq=2&qs=Archivio+di+Stato&dv=Lazio&ind=&nc=

http://www.chiocchi.it/

He is an italian artist.

I have read an old post you have write in 2006 where you wrote that
the surname of the mother of your anchestor was Bregotti. I think that
the correct surname coud be Brigotti (in Inglish the italian "e" you
read "i") so I have look for Brigotti:

here the distribution of Brigotti surname:

http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi/genera.html

As you can see there are no much family with this surname, but there
are two in Emilia Romagna: It is possible that the origin of your
family coud be here.

I have made suppositions, but if you can write to the State Archives,
it is probabily that something can happen. Ciao from Italy, Maria Luisa