I am not sure they are the same person. I have thought that they were because Salvadore's birth record is part of the allegati for both marriages however, I do have doubts. Below are links to documents covering the first marriage to Maria Teresa Cosentino. Interestingly, the allegati includes a note ...

Here are a couple links to the registration of the second marriage to Vincenza Catanzaro. I did not see the term "vedovo" or any reference to the first marriage. Can you?

Pages 1 and 2
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ua36073506/LDEYaQG
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an ...

PippoM,

Thanks for your response. I agree with you. I will look for the term that you mention in the second set of allegati.

Could marriage to a second wife be allowable for the sake of legitimizing the birth of a child born out of wedlock? I do not think so, but I am unsure because of information that I have come across in my own research. I have a Great-great grandfather (born 1839 in Termini Imerese, Palermo, Sicily ...

mmogno,

Thanks very much for the additional information and the links to the reports. It confirms what I thought. Salvador must have stayed with his wet nurse because she and her husband, Giuseppe are identified later in the Allegati records of his marriage in 1859.

Joe

PippoM,

Thank you so much for that information! You have confirmed what I have suspected and what I've read about how unwed mothers, at the time, may have given their babies up in hopes that they would be taken in. In the U.S. the location is often a Fire Station. I have a couple other questions ...

I am looking for help with the translation of these records. They are in script and not easy to read. Thank you in advance. - Joe Comello