Sorry, it's something I know nothing about.

Perhaps the question should go to the Immigration/Naturalisation/Italian citizenship forum here:

http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/Foru ... m/f=4.html

Some of the previous posts there might be helpful too, I think

I put rodolfo's text into a translation programme and it came out as:

request to take over part of my grandfather antonio glabelen Florio calabria born 1886 died 1944 in Cosenza the joseflorio @ hotmail.com agradesco argentina

(the language is Spanish)

Garry, are you aware of this?:

Naturalisation Papers: Bordessa, Pietro Gaspare, from Austria. Certificate 391 issued 22 May 1846. National Archives:


http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-2198651&FullDetails=True&j=1&Gsm=2008-08-08

Unfortunately ...

Hello there! I joined this forum because of this thread.

My ancestor John Bordessa was born in Como around the 1820s and fetched up in London by the 1850s