Hi Cornwall rootschatters. I am usually on the Hertfordshire site. Having got stuck with my Goodman ancestors, I decided to try Ambrosone. Does anyone please have information about Ambrosone and descendants in Cornwall. Also, whether there was any connection with the Uren surname.
I had some information already from Italy, my husband's ancestors. Going back as far as 1833 on the direct paternal side. They appeard to originate from Montesarchio, Benevento, Italy.
I did a DNA swab test on my son, just out of interest, expecting to find Italian matches or perhaps none at all. I requested for a 37 male YDNA marker test.
I was very successful, previously, with this male marker test on my Goodman ancestors. Direct descendant, five generations in common, with another male Goodman who had agreed to be swabbed. Later still, finding documented evidence to also support the results.
Recently, I was surprised to find that my son matched 25 out of 37 with Frank Uren, Cornwall.
In the 1861 census St Mawes, St Just, Truro, Cornwall- Elizabeth Collins, head, was a Lodging House Keeper and although she had some children with the surname Collins, she also had two Ambrosone children. She was listed as being a widow. Her daughter Elizabeth Ambrosone was born in 1849 in Cornwall and her son born in 1853. Her mother's name was Lawer and she was also a widow. I hope that I have interpreted that correctly.
Although probably unrelated, there was a Thomas Uren who married a Sally Collins 24th August 1805 Kenwyn, Cornwall. I was unable to find any Uren and Ambrosone match.
Having not expected there to be any Ambrosone families in England, especially before 1830. I decided to look outside of Cornwall. I found Francis Ambrosone who actually married in 1830, Somerset, by banns, although it doesn't state ages and where Francis or his wife Keziah Knapton were born.
In 1817, a John Francis Ambrosone was living and married in Portsea Hampshire to Lucy May. Annoyingly, this information also failed to mention where the parties were born.
There were Ambrosone families in Brighton, Anna Maria Ambrosone, who married in 1840 to John Maria Gancia, he was born in Italy, although Anna Maria was born in Brighton.
There was a John A Ambrosone, Jeweller, born in Brighton in 1820, living with his brother and sister. Interesting to know who his father was and where his father was born.
Later on, there were Bradford born Ambrosone families. My daughter, in jest, said "it is bad enough having a crap surname, but to discover that it is not even that unusual is another thing".
