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Vincenzo Rosario Rocco Tropeano (b. October 04, 1903, d. August 01, 1975)
More About Vincenzo Rosario Rocco Tropeano:
Burial: Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
More About Vincenzo Rosario Rocco Tropeano and Maria Carmela Lagudi:
Marriage: November 13, 1926, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
Marriage Notes for Vincenzo Rosario Rocco Tropeano and Maria Carmela Lagudi:In the words of Nonna Mela - translated by Melisa Tropeano
Nonno Rocco and Nonna Mela knew each since they were little because the sister of Nonna Rocco, Marie Angela, was commare with the mother of Nonna Mela, Francesca Marie Zappia, also known as Nonna Cica.
One day when Nonna Mela was sixteen years old, Marie Angela asked her brother Rocco if he wanted to get married because she had found the perfect girl for him, Nonna Mela.Nonna Rocco immediately said yes.First they had to see what Nonna Cica would think of this marriage.When Marie Angela spoke with Nonna Cica she was very surprised and embarrassed.She did not know what to say to something like this.Eventually she said no with the excuse that her husband was in the mountains and her eldest son Antonio was in the military.Therefore, there was no man to give Nonna Rocco permission to marry Nonna Mela.
When Nonna Rocco gained the courage, he returned to Nonna Mela's house to discuss marriage with Nonna Cica.He presented 11.000 lire to Nonna Cica as his contribution to the marriage.Finally Nonna Cica said yes and Nonna Mela and Nonna Rocco were engaged.
On November 13, 1926 a priest named Pisani married them.Nonna Mela wore a long brown dress, 15 inches beneath her knee, a necklace, a pair of gold and aqua earrings, a handbag, and a pair of shoes the same color as the dress.On her head she wore a black veil.
The day that they registered their marriage at the Town Hall in Varapodio, Nonna Mela wore a gray suit and gray shoes.The suit was from a very well know dressmaker, Bagerara Calabre.
Nonna Mela and Nonno Rocco had eleven children, 41 grandchildren, and as of 3/5/99, when Nonna Mela died, 24 great-grandchildren.
Children of Vincenzo Rosario Rocco Tropeano and Maria Carmela Lagudi are:
- +Rosario Tropeano, b. August 10, 1927, Varapodio,Calabria Italy, d. May 02, 2005, Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey, United States.
- +Elisabetta Tropeano, b. January 1929, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Francesca Tropeano, b. September 01, 1930, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Rocco Tropeano, b. September 01, 1932, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Anotnio Tropeano, b. April 20, 1934, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Giovanni Tropeano, b. May 24, 1937, Varapodio, Calabria Italy,d., Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Tommaso Tropeano, b. January 25, 1940, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +Angela Tropeano, b., Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- +S. Riccardo Tropeano, b. 1944, Varapodio, Calabria Italy.
- Giuseppina Tropeano, b. 1946.