Misc. Notes
From Messina. Left from Genoa on the Kaiser Wilhelm II, traveling Forward III?, arriving February 27, 1893. Traveled with her brother Paolo.
161In 1897, she arrived with her father and sister Concetta in May, traveling on the Sarnia.
156In 1897, arrived in New York aboard the Hesperia via Naples, arriving October 15. She’s 28 and traveled with Stellario Cambria, 23. Their final destination was their parents, Cosimo Zappala at 201 E. 11th? St. She said she had been in the US in 1893/1895; he answered ‘no.’
On October 31, 1905, arrived in New York on the Cretic with her US-born children Cosimo, 5, and Teresa (it’s notated as 4 months but must be 4 years). They had sailed from Naples on October 17. She said she had been in the US in 1896. Their destination was husband and father Stellario Cambria at 1835 Madison Ave. (Indexed as Bappala in Ellis Island database.)
In 1910, living with her brother and sister, husband and children at 1835 Madison Ave. She is 41 and her occupation is a dressmaker, industry is ‘working out.’ Married 13 years.
163In 1920, as Josephine Cambria, 46, living in a home they own at 1554 East 10th Street in Brooklyn with her husband and three children, and brother and sister. She and Stellario, 46, are listed as aliens who arrived in 1898. He is a musician; she doesn’t work. Son John, 21, is a stenographer; Theresa, 19, is a typist; and Cosmo, 17, is a bookkeeper. Brother Paolo is 52 and works as a mechanic at a chandelier company. Sister Concetta is 45 and a dressmaker in a modest (’modist,’ sic) shop. They said they arrived in 1897. They all can read and write.
164Leaves Stellario in 1924.
171In 1930, she is 59, not working, widowed and living with her brother Paolo (63, listed on census as Baul) and her husband’s nephew Anthony (19). They live next door to her son John and his family in a house valued at $7,500 at 804 Elise(?) St. in Roselle Park, NJ.
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