Hey everyone,
I might be a bit late to this chat, but I'm researching the biological parents of my great-grandmother. They were Italian and I'm told through family hearsay that the mother was called Cristina. I'm interested to know more about this Cristina Fascione, living in York with the Martino family in 1891. My great-grandmother's birth was registered in Whitby in 1891, however being adopted that date and place of birth could be different.
My question is that on later documents for this family Cristina disapears, but there is a Medestina (likely Modestina) two years younger who marries one of the Martino boys. Not sure if it's the same person - could be, if not, what happened to Cristina? Could she be my great-grandmother's mother? i.e got pregnant and got sent away to have the baby in secret, died in child birth and the baby was kept by a benevolent host family - that's my hypothesis.
I've managed through DNA matches to narrow down the father to a Luigi Di Placido who would have been the same age and from the same village in Italy, though on the 1891 census he is recorded in Edinburgh with his parents, however I've been told by some of his parents' living descendents that he went down to Newcastle then further south, after that there's no trace of him either.
If anyone can shed some light on this it would be a great help.
James
