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Re: Airing the family linen!
« Reply #9 on: Monday 20 April 09 05:19 BST (UK) »
Hi,
On going through the names of people buried in the same cemetery as my grandmother, I came across the name Bonniffacia Massimiliano - could this by any stretch of the imagination be the same name on the death certificate - taking into account how difficult it would be for those doing the death notices in those days to spell italian names?
Just hoping for the impossible here!
Kind regards
Bev
MOORE (Kent) & FRENCH (Sussex) & Western Australia, LOVE (Kent), ROPER 1810 (N Ireland). ADAM 1808 (Paisley), Scotland, Victoria & West Aust, TROTTER 1700's onwards  Northern Ireland, Scotland & Aust, FLAHERTY 1791/2 (Ireland) CHAPMAN (Kent) &  Western Australia, CARROLL & POWER. Ireland & Western  Australia, FISHER  Lancashire & Western Australia, FIDLER Denton, Lancashire, Victoria, MARSH Essex & Western Australia, COOPER - Southwark, London, Victoria
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Re: Airing the family linen!
« Reply #10 on: Monday 20 April 09 06:49 BST (UK) »
Hello Bev,

Excellent find!

If I were you, I'd grab him with both hands!

mare saw the final letters as 'liano' - congratulations mare!

JAP
PS: From
http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Collie/c_mike.htm
"MASSIMILIANO, Bonniffacia. 23 Nov 1947. Aged 75 years. Brother of Florindo, friend of Fred Piavanini. Roman Catholic C.60 "
So the age fits well.  You said that your grandmother was 43 when she died in 1919 - the chap above would have been 47 in 1919.
Added: There are a couple of fairly recent references on the Web to Fred PIAVANINI in Collie.

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Re: Airing the family linen!
« Reply #11 on: Monday 20 April 09 07:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you!, Thank you!, Thank you!
I will take him!. Al I have to do now is to remember how to put 'completed' on these posts.
Kind regards
Bev
MOORE (Kent) & FRENCH (Sussex) & Western Australia, LOVE (Kent), ROPER 1810 (N Ireland). ADAM 1808 (Paisley), Scotland, Victoria & West Aust, TROTTER 1700's onwards  Northern Ireland, Scotland & Aust, FLAHERTY 1791/2 (Ireland) CHAPMAN (Kent) &  Western Australia, CARROLL & POWER. Ireland & Western  Australia, FISHER  Lancashire & Western Australia, FIDLER Denton, Lancashire, Victoria, MARSH Essex & Western Australia, COOPER - Southwark, London, Victoria
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Re: COMPLETED. Airing the family linen!
« Reply #12 on: Monday 20 April 09 07:36 BST (UK) »
Great result there Bev with the cemetery info...my imagination is improving the more I look at it too  ;)
doesn't look like the cert version has quite enough letters in the first name but you must be very happy to have curiosity satisfied.

See you've mastered the modified title too...  :) mare

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Re: COMPLETED. Airing the family linen!
« Reply #13 on: Monday 20 April 09 09:28 BST (UK) »
Oh fantastic!   What a great find - well done all!  :D :D
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