Vibo Valentia, Calabria
Briatico
The deepest line in this archive, and the one that does not carry the surname. A small comune on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria that sent its people to three different continents.
106
people recorded at Briatico or its hamlets
1697
the earliest birth the archive can name here
8
generations of Prostamo, unbroken
The town
Briatico stands on the Tyrrhenian coast about ten kilometres north of Vibo Valentia, on the stretch Italians call the Costa degli Dei. The town the family left is not quite the town on the map today: old Briatico was wrecked by the Calabrian earthquake of 1783 and again in 1905, and the modern comune is a rebuilding, a little inland of the ruins. Its hamlets — Potenzoni, Mandaradoni, San Costantino — appear in this archive as birthplaces in their own right, which is how Calabrian registers recorded them.
That 1783 earthquake matters for a practical reason. It destroyed archives across the province, and it is one of the reasons a line that reaches 1697 here is unusual enough to be worth checking rather than assuming.
The families
34 surnames are recorded at Briatico in this archive. Five of them are ancestral to the Brisbane family.
Anile · Averta · Barbuto · Birroca · Calogero · Carfosi · Collia · Delorenzo · Di Meio · Dileo · Fragala · Grasso · Ladroneria · Lesto · Lia · Lugara · Mazza · Melluso · Napoli · Nigrelli · Pagano · Pagnotta · Panella · Perri · Poleo · Polito · Prostamo · Sacco · Sandiuliano · Santoro · Scangiaterra · Vardi · Ventrice · Vitrale
Everyone the archive places here
| Name | Dates | Born | Died |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franco Antonino Prostamo | 1697 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Agnere Polito | 1699 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1726 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Caterina Sandiuliano | 1726 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Caterina Scangiaterra | 1746 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Pasquale Prostamo | 1760–1829 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Caterina Di Meio | 1762 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Nicola Prostamo | 1768 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Elizabetta Averta | 1768–1833 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Franco Ant Prostamo | 1768–1823 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Flavia Calogero | 1770 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Vincenzo Sacco | 1770 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Angela Prostamo | 1772–1848 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1785 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Maria Fragala | 1789 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1796–1827 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Pizzo, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Elizabetta Prostamo | 1798 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonio Barbuto | 1806–1876 | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonia Grasso | 1809 | Mandaradoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Filippo Pagnotta | 1816 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Izabella Prostamo | 1818 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Domenico Prostamo | 1820 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Nicola Prostamo | 1820 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Giovanna Ventrice | 1825 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonino Pagnotta | 1825 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Maria Teresa Santoro | 1825 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Sebastiano Prostamo | 1825 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Foca Prostamo | 1826 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Giovanna Perri | 1830 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Maria Teresa Fragala | 1830 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Francesco Anile | 1843 | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Saveria Barbuto | 1845–1892 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonio Prostamo | 1850 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1850 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | 1852 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Fillipo Melluso | 1855 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Pasquale Prostamo | 1857 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Saverio Lia | 1857 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Alfonso Prostamo | 1858 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1858 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Laura Prostamo | 1859 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Caterina Melluso | 1860–1957 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Rocco Prostamo | 1860 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1860 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Carmela Prostamo | 1863 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Carmela Anile | 1867–1891 | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonio Anile | 1870–1871 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Antonio Anile | 1873 | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Domenico Melluso | 1875–1919 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Giuseppe Anile | 1876 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Domenica Anile | 1880–1970 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Fortunata Lucia Anile | 1882–1929 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | New York, New York |
| Concetta Anile | 1888–1980 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | New York, New York |
| Domenico Prostamo | 1889 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonio Carfosi | 1889 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Nunziata (Nancy) Mary Anile | 1890–1939 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | New York, New York |
| Giovanna Prostamo | 1892 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Maria Rosa Melluso | 1895 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Mattea Prostamo | 1895 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Francessco Prostamo | 1900–1983 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Francesco Melluso | 1901 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Leone Prostamo | 1902 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Fillipo Melluso | 1903 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonino Prostamo | 1904 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Maria Rosa Melluso | 1907–1994 | New York, New York | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | 1907 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Teresa Grasso | 1907–1928 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Saveria Melluso | 1909–1944 | New York, New York | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Alfonso Prostamo | 1918 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Giovanni Lugara | 1918 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Caterina Prostamo | 1920 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Giuseppe Prostamo | 1927 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Anna Delorenzo | 1927 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Domenica Prostamo | 1928–2010 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Alfonso Prostamo | 1928 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Domenico Prostamo | 1930 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Pasquale Dileo | 1930 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Ernesto Pagano | 1930 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Antonio Giacomo Prostamo | 1934 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Mario Napoli | 1934 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Mattea Prostamo | 1934 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Gregorio Ladroneria | 1934 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Francesco Prostamo | 1935 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Alfonso Prostamo | 1936–1980 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
| Maria Melluso | 1936–1991 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Concetta Prostamo | 1936 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Giovanna Prostamo | 1938 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Francesca Prostamo | 1945 | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | |
| Salvatore Mazza | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Saveria Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Anunziata Panella | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Salvatore Poleo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Maria Rosa Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Margarita Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Domenico Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Guiseppi Vardi | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Carlo Nigrelli | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Laura Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Maria Teresa Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Domenico Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Antonia Prostamo | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Antonio Anile | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Carmela Collia | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Domenica Birroca | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Saveria Lesto | Potenzoni (Briatico), Vibo Valentia, Calabria | ||
| Rosa Vitrale | Briatico, Vibo Valentia, Calabria |
Three departures
Briatico did not empty in one direction. The Fillipo Melluso and Domenica Anile households sailed from Naples to New York on 2 August 1906. A Prostamo branch went to Buenos Aires, where children were being born from 1926 into the 1960s. And in 1951 Domenica Prostamo left Genoa for Fremantle with an infant son. The crossings →