It was
once the family Augello.
Origin Sicily, Sutera year 1675.
Then find them in Montedoro and Serradifalco.
The war, the hunger and the misery oblige them to disperse.
One everywhere in the world. From other in, Argentina, France, Belgium, etc…
Year
1907 departure for the United States of America,
The crossing takes place on sailing boats. It lasts approximately five weeks
(starting from the ports of Western Northern Europe). Navigation with vapor
reduces the journey time to 12 days of Hamburg, Liverpool or Le Havre, but 21
days still of Naples or Fiume. However, this shortening of the duration, if it
is a positive point, does not make easier the voyage much. The immigrants are
piled up in the funds of hold where berths superimposed in a very great
promiscuity are arranged.
“Us others, the poor people, we were to go down by a hole, at the bottom of the boat. There was a large dark part with lines of racks out of wooden around where we were going to sleep - the Italians, the Germans, the Poles, Swedes, French - all the kinds. And at this time, the third class was not like now: the girls, the women and the men all slept in the same part. The men and the girls slept in the same bed with only half boards of separation so that wedo not fall the ones on the others. But I had chance: beside me, there were two girls. ”
Arrival Ellis Island
Located at the north of Liberty Island, in the state of the New Jersey, Ellis
Island is the anteroom of immigration. It is on this island that forwarded
between 1892 and 1924, more than 22 immigrants of the whole world, passenger
million and crew, of which all information was noted on known “ships passengers'
lists” under the name of “manifests”. Ellis Island was the door of entry towards
the United States.
Name of Passenger Residence Arrived Age on Arrival
Michela Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 7
Michele Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 24 - Salvatore Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 1
Stefana Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 23 - Giuseppe Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 26
Maria Antonia Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1907 10 - Barbaro Augello Serradifalco, Caltanissetta 1909 68
Giuseppe Augello Serradifalco, Caltanissetta 1909 37 - Maria G. Augello Serradi'falco, Sicily 1912 48
Giuseppe Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1920 16 - Giovanni Augello Montedoro, Sicily 1921 38
Luigi Augello Montedoro, Sicily 1921 29. - Antonino Augello Serradifalco, Sicily 1922 24
The reception with Ellis Island
This place of obliged transit is devoted to medical controls and the
administrative procedures. Duly recorded, questioned, measured and examined by
the American employees, the candidates with immigration screened by the services
of the administration. It is also their first contact with American citizens.
However, if the American government openly shows its organization and its power,
few men and women are driven back because the United States has immense needs
for labour.
Living conditions of the Italian immigrants
They are those of poor populations in the middle of large cities. The Italian
immigrants live in decayed districts, refitted warehouses or buildings of six
floors. Those which are originating in the same area gather in the same
districts, which it is North End in Boston or Mulberry Bend in New York. In
Chicago, the Italians of North are concentrated in some streets of West Side,
where the Italian trade and restaurants are legions. They are boys of coffee,
restorers, fruit merchants, confectioners, hairdressers… In New York, in Bronx
or in Brooklyn, they are the Italians of the South. Many large cities have their
Little Italy. In New-Orleans, it is Little Palermo. So the Italians preserve
beyond the seas, their regional identity. However, they are always perceived
like Italians by the Americans.
Reasons of this growth
They are varied:
- the development of the territory, vast and equipped with immense natural
resources, requires many installations, both for the road network the shoed
network. The exploitation of the iron and coal mines requires a very many
labour. The population increases quickly, as well thanks to the natural increase
in a young population, as thanks to the arrival of 25 million immigrants between
1880 and 1914. This situation offers enormous outlets. This market of consumers
in constant rise involves the development of industry. The iron and steel
industry in particular advances with forced march.
The entrepreneurship is stimulated by the immigrants who dream of fortune and new life.
The creation of a new identity
The economic and social difficulties of the Italian immigrants gradually grow
blurred, while a new identity appears, that of the Italian-American ones. During
the years 1930, Italians exile themselves to flee the fascistic mode. Many are
intellectuals, scientists or artists. The leader Arturo Toscanini, the physicist
Enrico Fermi, the statesman Carlo Sforza find refuge in the United States. In
parallel, the integration of the Italian community continues. Proof in is: a
half million Italian-American are useful under the American flag during the
second world war. The laws instituting of the quotas disappear in 1965. The
Italian press continues to be distributed for a hundred thousands of readers.
Today, approximately 21 millions Americans can assert a transalpine origin.
Among them, Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro or Al Pacino make live by their
films this Italian-American memory…
Joe Di Maggio (1914-1999) From 1936 to 1951, he gained 9 World Series. A prize list which could have been denser, if the interested party had not spent three years in the Pacific at the time of the Second world war. Always holds the record of greater matches number consecutive disputed with at least a sure blow of struck (56). Married to Marilyn Monroe on January 14, 1954 in Martinez small village of fisherman in California. His parents had a restaurant and his family was made up of 4 girls and 5 boys, the champion of baseball Joseph Paul Di Maggio, “the alive legend” of the American sport. It had ardently courted it during a whole year, and the anecdote, with all its advertising side, had even made the turn of the sphere. Marilyn will obtain 20th Century Fox thus that he revokes the disciplinary actions envisaged in the event of breach of contract. The honeymoon starts with Japan.
Franck Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra is born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, in the New
Jersey, not
far from New York. He goes down from a poor family of sicilian immigrants.
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939 in Detroit, in Michigan. His
first firstname comes to him from his sicilian maternal grandfather, Francesco
Peppino, and the second of the radio broadcast “Ford Evening hours”, in which
his/her father collaborated, the type-setter Carmine Coppola. The Coppola young
person passes his childhood in the district of Queens, in New York, where his
family had been established his birth shortly after. He is interested in the
cinema since 1948, being exerted to go up small films of amateurs in 8 mm from
which he draws his first tests: The Rich Millionaire, The Lost Servant, etc
Grandson of a Sicilian immigrant, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Little Italy, the Italian district of New York. His parents are both of the known painters who do not oppose his desire to become actor. He carries out a childhood and a rather free adolescence. He trails in the streets of his district, where also Martin Scorsese lives.
Martin Scorsese
Was born on November 17, 1942 in Flushing, State of New York. Grandson of
sicilian immigrants.
Al pacino
Born on April 25, 1940 in New York, Sicilian parents, his childhood in Bronx
passes and carries out its studies in High School of the Performing of
Manhattan. etc.
Vidéo:http://www.dailymotion.com/augellol/video/x2ougc_serradifalcoitalie_travel
