Nicholas SMITH - birth 'Italy'

[Possum 26]

Can anyone advise me how to go about finding out about my ggg grandfather
Nicholas SMITH all I know from his death cert.  27th Aug 1894 [He died in NZ] was he was born in Italy. I have the certs of all the family and none shed light on this further I thought perhaps on route [his father was a seaman] to NZ Nicholas was born and they registered in the nearest port Ive writteen to different places in Italy but have got no response [I wrote in english perhaps wrong??] What or where do i go from here any suggestions welcome
San's

[jorose]

Can you give us more information on the life of Nicholas Smith?

When was he born?
When/where married?
When did he come to NZ?

I believe that Italian civil records, like many European records, are organised by the town or the provincial archives and usually you can not get a lookup unless you have the exact place of birth (then you should contact that town directly, or get films from the LDS).  When you do write you should write in Italian, as there's no guarantee that anybody there speaks English, and usually include some Euros for their time.

His father was a seaman, do you know his name? If the father turns out to be English he might be on the overseas birth indexes, or his career might be able to be traced.  What was Nicholas' job?

[Possum 26]

Hi again
I've little info on the above Nicholas taking his age from death cert he would have been born around 1836
He married Mary Coleman  30 Jan 1864 Dunedin NZ
I cannot find his arrival in NZ
His father was Nicholas Smith - seaman and mother Louisa nee Jones [again from death cert]
Any help would be appreciated
San's

[Jed59]

a few links to try...
www.archivi.beniculturali.it

www.initaly.com/gene

http://home.att.net/~gaetano2/personal.html

www.italiangenealogy.tardio.com


and the british embassy in italy is at www.britain.it

hope that helps
jed

[rbangorreg]

hi sams,
        I  have used the following forum a few times

                   http://www.italiangenealogy.com

        It's free and anyone can join. It will take about 24 hours to receive your registration.
         Regards    Reg.
                     

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[jaywit]

Italy would not be en  route to New Zealand  at all, there would be no need for a ship going to New Zealand to enter the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal hadn't been built then, so I doubt that explanation. With the surname Smith and even if he was born in the UK you will have huge problems anyway. Civil registration didn't begin in England and Wales until 1837 so had he been born in England in 1836 you would not find a birth registration. I am sorry to be so negative, but don't raise your hopes of finding him.