This amazing site has an index to all the surnames present in the Comune di San Marco Argentano, Cosenza that were present in the 19th century. The author has researched using the registers located in the Italian Archives. He has included births starting from 1809 and marriages from 1811.
Keep in mind that these surnames may not necessarily have originated in San Marco Argentano as he has included any name that he found a reference too in the registers.
Italian (Calabria): habitational name from Rovito in Cosenza province, so named from Latin rubetum ‘thornbush’, ‘briar’, ‘bramble’.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 11%; Spanish 6%. Gennaro (2), Mario, Nazzareno, Rafael; Carlos, Diego, Francisco, Mariela.
*Source url: http://www.answers.com/topic/rovito-1
It's been a long month. Over a hundred surnames have been submitted for entry into the Italian Surname Database. The most difficult part of updating the site is missing information and formatting the data. I do this all manually since I chose not to use any flashy programs that might slow down the site.
If you would like to submit a surname you can help me by following the steps below.
First go to the Contact link on the site. You will see a Submit form. Enter your name. Some people choose to use their surname as the name but I believe it's more effective to use a first name but it's not necessary.
Next provide a valid email address where a person can contact you. Valid emails are required.
Next, provide your surname and the town, province and region in Italy your ancestor is from. If you know the town but not the province or region a simple search using your favourite search engine will help and will also ensure you have spelled it correctly. I spend approximately two hours a month looking this information and correcting spelling for submitters which delays my updating the site. I also receive emails from people that say their ancestors were from somewhere around the Southern Region of Italy or around Naples. I can not determine where your ancestors are from.
Once entered submit the info and you should receive a Thank You message letting you know I have received your request or an Error message if something has gone wrong. There is no need to send another email unless you notice I have updated the site since you sent your request and your surname has not been added.
Please do not use all lowercase or all uppercase letters in your submission. If you do, then I will have to reformat the information all over again.
Your submission should look like this:
Angilletta
Ardore
Reggio Calabria
Calabria
Nuccia
youremail @ gmail.com
and NOT like this:
ANGILLETTA, Domenic, ardore, from somewhere in the south of Italy.
There is no need to add anything else. This database can not answer genealogy related questions and no one sees the additional information except for me. If you do need help locating an ancestor then please join Gente di Mare Italian Genealogy Forum and we will do our best to assist you. I also get several emails in Spanish and French. The members on the forum are from all over the world and will be happy to answer those questions and you can post them in your language of choice. I unfortunately can not.
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Last name origin & meaning:
Italian (Sicily): nickname for a teetotaler, Sicilian murabbitu, from Arabic murābịt ‘hermit’, ‘ascetic’.
According to the Genealogy Family Education website, this surname is actually a derivative of the Arabic surname of Murabit meaning hermit. Facebook has a whole group devoted to this surname - Morabito.. more tha a name, a way of life. with over 170 members and open content.
While searching the Ellis Island Website using my favourite search engine One Step Pages by Stephen Morse
and using various spellings, I discovered the surname is most common in parts of Sicily and Reggio Calabria.
According to the RES website, the surname appears in 79 out of 380 towns in Calabria.
There are a few ways to use the site. The first is to click on ricerca, then plug in the surname and or address in chi/cosa and the comune(town, city or province) name in dove if known. Another way to use the site is to click on ricercha speciale and use it to do a reverse look up if you know a phone number but don't know who it's registered too.
No matter how you choose to use the site it's definitely worth checking out.
This article, written in Dec 2007 By Philip Pullella caught my attention this morning and I wanted to share it.
(Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son "Friday" and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on.
"I think it is ridiculous they even opened a case about it," the family's lawyer, Paola Rossi, told Reuters by telephone from the northern city of Genoa on Tuesday.
Friday/Gregory Germano was born in Genoa 15 months ago. The parents registered him as Friday in the city hall and a priest even baptised him as Friday -- unusual in Italy since many priests insist that first names be of Christian origin.
"We named him Friday because we like the sound of the name. Even if it would have been a girl, we would have named her Friday," the boy's mother, Mara Germano, told Reuters.
When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving "ridiculous or shameful" first names to children.
The tribunal said it was protecting the child from being the butt of jokes and added that it believed the name would hinder him from developing "serene interpersonal relationships".
The Germano family appealed but lost their case this month and the story was carried on the front page of a national newspaper on Tuesday.
When ordered to change the name, the parents refused and the court ruled the boy would be legally registered as Gregory because he was born on that saint's feast day.
"I really doubt this would have happened to the child of parents who are rich and famous," the boy's mother told Reuters, recalling that some famous Italians had given their children unorthodox names such as "Ocean" or "Chanel".
The appeals court ruled against Friday because it recalled the servile savage in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe and because superstitious Italians consider Friday an unlucky day.
"I am livid about this," the boy's mother said. "A court should not waste its time with things like this when there is so much more to worry about."
"My son was born Friday, baptised Friday, will call himself Friday, we will call him Friday but when he gets older he will have to sign his name Gregory," she said.
You can view the original article here.
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