Thank you for your messages, suanj and Peter Timber. Your help is much appreciated.

How can I find out about my Ellen Young nee Puccini (father Italian, mother Irish) born in England. Ellen was born in 1868 - would she have had to apply for Italian residency or would that status have been granted automatically?

Where would I look for any surviving records that may tell me ...

Any members of the Puccini family out there - do you know where my ancestor Leone Puccini was born in Italy? He was a carver gilder and looking glass maker also an ornamental plasterer. His father was Antonio Puccini a labourer. Leone married in 1865 an Irish lady called Ellen Roche/Roach at the ...

Hello Riccardo,

Thanks for your reply. I have the civil record of the marriage of Leone Puccini and Ellen Roche/Roach but not from the Church. Will the Church have extra details? I will try and contact the Church. Thanks. Sindy.

I am searching for the birthplace of Leone Puccini born circa 1836 somewhere in Italy. This ancestor lived in Holborn, London, England in the 1860s onwards, he married an irish lady called Ellen Roche or Roach in 1865 at the Italian Church in Holborn. They had seven children. Leone Puccini's father ...