Notable records.

The largest families.

The record remains Vito Luca Ramondino (1661–1725) and Angela Vittoria Libretti (1664–1724), married 23 Nov 1680, with 17 recorded children — one more than the next family down, Francesco di Lisa and Arcangela Abbatemarco (married 16 Feb 1878), who climb to 16 recorded children this update as newly indexed births brought their total up from 15, with Gaetano S di Lisa and Modesto Gruccio close behind at 15 each. The Ramondino children's births span 26 years, from 1682 to 1708; the di Lisa children were born between 1879 and 1904.

The earliest-born of the Federal Street generation.

Of the 159 people in the tree born in Sassano who went on to die in Chicago, these are the 20 born earliest — the oldest members of the generation that made the crossing. The earliest of all, Maria Orlando, was born in 1835, a full 58 years before Cono Stavola's 1893 marriage record marks him as likely the first Sassanese to reach the city. Being early to arrive in Chicago and being old enough to have been born early in Sassano turn out to be two different things — Cono Stavola himself sits 14th on this list, meaning at least 13 people born in Sassano before him eventually died in Chicago too, whatever order they actually arrived in.

The youngest recorded mothers.

Some of the earlier candidates on this list turned out to be sibling name mix-ups, corrected as part of ongoing data cleanup — see the blog and project notes for a couple of those specific cases. The entry at the very top, Maria Volpe, is flagged in brick below: a newly added exact birth date (8 Jun 1866, replacing a previous approximate 1862) now computes her age at just 10 — below even the historical legal minimum documented on this page. That's a strong candidate for a transcription issue or a sibling mix-up rather than a real case, and worth checking against the original source before it's treated as settled.

The youngest recorded brides.

Mothers who may have died from childbirth.

Death records rarely stated a cause, so this can't be certain — but when a mother's death falls within days or weeks of one of her children being born, historically that's the classic signature of childbirth complications or puerperal (postpartum) fever, the leading cause of maternal death before antibiotics. 123 mothers in the tree show a death within 60 days of a birth; 11 died the very same day. Two joined this update: Arcangela d'Aletta, who died on 26 Apr 1875, the very day her daughter Raffaela Romaniello was born, and Filomena Concetta Domenica Lucia di Martino, who died on 15 Oct 1871, 55 days after giving birth to twins (see the Twins page). Several of these mothers were delivering twins at the time — consistent with twin births carrying meaningfully higher risk, then as now.

Married the most times.

Almost always widowhood remarriage rather than anything else — losing a spouse young and remarrying was simply how life worked for centuries before modern medicine. Living individuals are excluded.

Bride or groom, gone within a year.