looking for a - Irene Nora MASERELLA

[suzard]

Just posted William Joseph's birth reg, Tati -that slotted together nicely

Suz

[AMBLY]

Hi Tati  
Indeed you could ! I couldn't for the life of me  , but now you say - it is of course, clearly Musician! A singing House painter! Marvelous !

Seems as if Irene Nora sprang from a large family...
Her grandparents married 1874:
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

If you search all MASSARELLA, Dorset 1871 to 1930 - there are oodles, starting with the 1874 marrriage and all Poole and Weymouth. No doubt all would track back to Joseph MASSARELLA the Italian Housepainter.

Cheers
AMBLY

[suzard]

Is this the son?

Birth
Brian J Hunt
mothers maiden name Massarella
Jun qtr 1943
Bathavon
5c788

we must remember to not include any information of living persons

Suz

[iasha]

Sorry Suz I am new to this, I have just started reseaching my family tree.  Thankyou for the information you have found.  It is interesting that there are so many Massarellas' as it is not a common name.

[AMBLY]

George Hubert HUNT and Irene N  MASSARELLA
married Sep Qtr 1932 in Poole, 5a 705

Iasha, it appears that Joseph MASSARELLA and his wife had abt 10 children.
Italian - possibly Catholic!! 

Do you want us to find and post up the Census for him in 1881 and 1891 also?

Cheers
AMBLY

[iasha]

Hi Ambly
That information would be most helpful.

Thankyou

[AMBLY]

Here's 1891:

1891: Poole St James Dorset
RG12 -  Piece: 1638 - Folio 40 -  Pg 11
Address: West Batts Street
Head: Joseph MASSARELLA 35, Musician, b Cassino Italy
Wife: Mary A 35, b Weymouth
Dau: Rosina 15, Factory Hand,  b Weymouth
Son: William A 14, Labourer in Pottery,  b Weymouth
Son: Ernest 12, Scholar,  b Weymouth
Dau: Edith M 10, Scholar,  b Weymouth
Dau: Augusta 6, Scholar,  b Weymouth
Son: Herbert 4, Scholar,  b Weymouth
Dau: Mabel S. 2,  b Weymouth
Son: Emanuel J 2 mths, b Poole

But can't find them 1881???  Can you,  Tati or Suz? 
By all accounts should be in Weymouth. Dau Edith was registered Sep Qt 1880..

Cheers
AMBLY

[suzard]

While fellow RootsChatters have been delving into the past, I have been looking at the present (makes a change!)

You may be linked somewhere along the line to these Massarellas???

The massarella catering Company is a multi million pound business with over 200 restaurants in the UK
In 1860 on their way from Setterfratte in Italy to build new lives in America, Giovanni Massarella and his three brothers arrived in England.So taken were they by S Yorks they decided to abandon their journey and settle there instead. Over the next 100 years the family established a substantial ice cream business and didtributed their products in the Midlands and North of England. They beecame the largest ice cream manufacturrs in Europe. The company was sold in the 1950's -and now there is the massarella Catering Group.

Poole Pottery -Living Glaze 1990-present
one off studo pieces designed by Nicola Massarella.

President of the British Show Jumping Association -R. Massarella

There is also a mrs Massarella involved with Faith and Humanist Groups and Community Services in Bournmouth and Poole.

Suz

[suzard]

Joseph wasn't at home in 1881
1 Crescent Court
Weymouth
Mary Massarella head M 24 Melcombe Regis Dorset
Rosina daughter 5 Scholar melcombe regis
William son 4 Scholar melcombe Regis
Ernest son 2 melcombe regis
Edith daughter 7 mths Weymouth
RG11 2105 114 13

Suz