In my last post, I described why I thought the ship record belongs to my great grandmother Vincenza Fontana. Based on the confirmation of the record, I had a hunch that Vincenza and Viola must have gotten married in Rockford, Illinios. None of the search engines were coming up with a match, but then again the name spelling has been highly variable. I found a resource called the Illinois USGenWeb Archives, which simply lists in alphabetical order all marriages by the groom's last name. I tried Mannina, Mannino, Manina, Minini, Minina, and Fontana and nothing was popping up. So I decided to simply type in Vincenza with the years 1921 and 1922. I found it!
M921-0393 04/18/1921 MAMINA, VIOLLE 28 VINCENZA, GATONA 19
The date makes sense, Vincenza arrived in January of 1921 and was headed to Rockford, Illinois, and I knew that Uncle Tony was born in 1922. Note the mis-spelled names. Here we have Mamina as the groom's last name and they completely botched the bride's name. They have her last name as Vincenza and her first name as Gatona. Being that Viola is such a unique name - I have no doubt that this is the mystery couple!
I sent a fax to the Winnebago County Clerk and will hopefully be able to purchase a copy of the marriage certificate - although they do say that they only issue them to the actual people who were married or their parents, I am hoping that since it is for genealogical purposes that perhaps they will send it to me anyway!
Additionally, I have 2 family trees - one on ancestry.com and one on familysearch.org. The family search tree found a record called an Alien Case File for Gregorio Mannina. I have written to the National Archives to request a copy of the record. On the index, it indicates an arrival date of October 30, 1913. This is one month different from the Naturalization record that I previously found - so I am hopeful that I may soon locate the ship record for Gregorio, aka Viola, Mannino.
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