Adelfio:
My cousins also thank you for producing the Violetta birth act, which I have shared with all our family. It is better than a simple translation because we can see the language, script and still understand.
Many thanks, Robin

Paul, this is a gift. If you knew how long I've looked for these records, thinking that the children's distinctive first names would help and instead they were just incorrect. This also places them in Italy a year earlier than I thought.
The ages in census and ship records were a little vague and ...

British by birth rather than Italian, my family spent significant years in Taormina, Sicily, and I'd love to know when. I don't know how to use Italian records and these would have been civil rather than parish records. Any ideas are very welcome.

Edward Henry RAINFORD probably came from Middlesex ...