Shane, Thank you for your information about brother of my great grandmother, mr Ferrucio Grossi. Is fantastic discover the anonymous past of my family!!How i can try other information about his life and his discendent? When and where he dead? where lived his family and his son..? From Italy is very difficult try this informations..
Ferruccio and his family seem to arrived in Ireland around 1907, to take up his new position as professor of Violin in the School of Music. His address on the 1911 census shows that he lived in Cork City at South mall which is in the centre of the city and a short walk from the school of music. Of his time before that it seems that he may have travelled quite a bit - he was born in Egypt, his wife was born in Austria and Oscar, their son, was born in Sweden in about 1898.
Some newspaper articles I saw recently described recitals he staged around Cork city and county where he would perform violin pieces and was accompanied by his wife on the piano.
I dont see very many Grossi records on the
Irish Civil Index, which is an index of Irish Births marriages and Deaths. The earliest record I see is a possible death in the Cork area of young girl, who could be a daughter to Ferruccio - Elsa Grossi in Cork in Apr/Jun 1905, age 6. If you wish to find out more about this you could order a death cert which may give some more information on this event.
I dont seen any sign of their son Oscar marrying or births for any more children to Ferruccio and Marie, or their deaths. There is a death in Dublin of of a Mitzi Grossi (age 72) in Dublin, 1947 - not sure if this is connected. There are a couple of Grossi listings (a marriage and a birth)on the index in the 1950s - but I will not post details of possible living people (you can search the index to see these).
I will have a further look and let you know I what I find..
Shane
