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Potesta - does anyone....
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 13:27 BST (UK) »
have a connection, in anyway whatsoever, with this surname in their family history ?

I've taken on a challenge to try and help a family member I do have some info but am waiting on receiving more hence there being hardly anything here at the moment.  Just putting the "feelers" out as to how much of a challenge I may have taken on bearing in mind it is (in mind) a fairly unusual name but one I am not having much luck with !

Any feedback would be welcome.

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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 22 July 10 13:44 BST (UK) »
Hi,

FreeBMD has  some Potesta birth/marriage/death registrations; earliest is a death in 1847.


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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 22 July 10 15:37 BST (UK) »
Is it Italian?

I ask because some city states in Tuscany (before Italian unification) had governors/rulers whose title was Podestā or Potestā. It comes from potere = 'to be able', and is related to our words 'potent', 'potential' etc, and basically means 'one with power to...'.

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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 22 July 10 20:52 BST (UK) »
No personal connection, but I was going to mention the variation Podesta.  Caught my eye because this chap was a member of the Titanic crew.  (He survived  :))
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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 25 July 10 15:32 BST (UK) »
Hello,

My whole family (on my Dad's side) are Potesta's. What is it you were looking for exactly?

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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 25 July 10 21:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Everyone,

Thanks for replying, I have been on FreeBMD and had some success.  I've come up against "Podesta" a lot.  I don't think the guy on the Titanic is connected but it'd be an interesting story to tell people  :)

Ella,
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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 25 July 10 22:33 BST (UK) »
Hi

Ella cannot receive personal messages on Rootschat until she has posted three times.


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Re: Potesta - does anyone....
« Reply #7 on: Monday 26 July 10 13:00 BST (UK) »
Valda,

Thank you for letting me know.

ELLA,
Please post once more then I can re-send the PM.   ;D       

Just some names mentioned in it:
Jane Potesta, William Potesta, Sidney (Sydney) Herbert Potesta, Benjamin Potesta

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Edwards, Hodgson, Searle, Titchener, Tarran, Armstrong - Richmond, Walton-on-Thames, Kingston, Surrey, Lynesack & Softley, Etherley, Cockfield, Hamsterley, Durham, County Wexford
Potesta - Kingston, Surrey

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Re: Potesta - does anyone....question
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 28 July 10 23:15 BST (UK) »
Looking for record of birth of Sidney (Sydney) Herbert Potesta born c1874, mother Mary Ann Jane Potesta nee Moore who in 1886 remarried and became Mrs Parrey/Parvey.  In the 1881 census it says Place of Birth is Deptford but this draws a blank.  I have his military records, marriage and death certificates but cannot find any record of his birth !!

Any help / ideas would be most welcome.

Thank you

GfL

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Evans, Price, Jenkins, Lewis - Llancarfn, Llansannor, Mynyddislwyn, Trefegwlys, Aberdare, Abercarn
Edwards, Hodgson, Searle, Titchener, Tarran, Armstrong - Richmond, Walton-on-Thames, Kingston, Surrey, Lynesack & Softley, Etherley, Cockfield, Hamsterley, Durham, County Wexford
Potesta - Kingston, Surrey
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