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Marriage Promise File Cover — Alessandro Squitieri and Giuseppa Graziano, Sarno, 1837
Transcript
Uncertain readings are marked [?] or set in brackets; words that could not be read are marked as such. Each transcript is shown as written, with its transcriber’s notes.
The record
Printed/handwritten header: "Comune di Sarno" — "Num.o 87" — "Anno 1837". Upper right corner number: 924. Upper left corner: 100 (archive image/folio numbering, pencil).
Title (handwritten): "Atti della solenne promessa di matrimonio tra Alessandro Squitieri, e Giuseppa Graziano" (Records of the solemn promise of marriage between Alessandro Squitieri and Giuseppa Graziano).
Below the title: "G [?] Abignante" [flourished signature under the title; surname clear at 3x zoom, the initial looped into the A looks like a G but is uncertain]
Signature line: "Vincenzo Montoro [?] Can.re" [Can.re = abbreviation of Cancelliere (clerk); surname reading uncertain].
Circular seal: "Comune di Sarno" with the royal arms and inscription referring to Ferdinando (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies).
Note: this is the cover sheet only. The contents of the file (ages, parents, witnesses) are on later pages that are not in this image.