Occupations on Italian documents

[donnawright]

I see two occupations on documents I recently received.

One is Colona - Do I understand correctly that this is a farmer who works on a farm owned by someone else?


And... Campagnolo - countryman. Exactly what is a countryman.

Thanks.

[liviomoreno]

I see two occupations on documents I recently received.

One is Colono - Do I understand correctly that this is a farmer who works on a farm owned by someone else?

you are correct

And... Campagnolo - countryman. Exactly what is a countryman.

According to Webster: one living in the country or marked by country ways, rustic

[donnawright]

Thank you for this and your last translation. I am making progress. I have some help from an Italian who does not know English, and that is a challenge in itself. But together we figure a good bit of it out, and then I depend on this forum for clarification.

As for countryman, what kind of work does this indicate?

[liviomoreno]

I would say that he is a farmer