CHAPTER 4




MELOCCO
Genealogical Family History
by JOHN P. MELOCCO January 1994

Further to the history of the Melocco Family as written by my Father, Peter Oliver Melocco, dated August 1948,
I, John Peter Melocco take up the narrative.

 

 

Giovanni Battista Melocco (my Grandfather), son of Pietro, was born in Toppo a small town in Italy approximately 100 kilometres north of Venice, on 24th June, 1857. At the time this part of Italy (Friuli) was a protectorate of Austria. He had five brothers — Antonio, Valentino, Costante, Angelo and Vincenzo.


Giovanni Battista married Teresa Fabris from Vito d’Asio, a picturesque town some 10 Kilometres north east of Toppo. From this marriage 5 children were born.

Peter Oliver
(my Father)		 18.3.1883
Maria   24.1 .1885
Anthony  20.12.1886
Rosina   29.7.1888
Galliano  10.3.1897

                  

Peter in New York
age 11

Peter migrated to America on or about 1893 and lived with his Uncle Costante and Aunt Enfrasia, who were childless, in New York.

Peter finished his schooling and learned the trade of mosaic worker with his three Uncles who worked as a company in New York for several years. He returned to Toppo in 1907 and migrated to Sydney, Australia arriving in June 1908.



He married Josephine Victoria Asioli on 24th December 1922.
They had 3 children Helen, Jean & John.









Helen Therese
  26.12.1923
Jean Louise|
 29.9.1925
John Peter
27.1.1927
 


Antonio Cicutto

Toppo 1920














Maria married Anthony Gicutto and lived in Trenchin, Czechoslovakia until 1936 when she was widowed. She then travelled to Sydney to live with her five children.

Anthony
(Tony)
1.9.1919
Charles
20.3.1917
Remo
6.12.1909
Edith
11.10.1907
Romolo
3.12.1905

Albert  
  11.3.23
Lena 
  20. 10. 26













Anthony followed the trade of Mosaic worker initially in Paris and then New York. He migrated to Australia in 1912 to work with his brother Peter on the Irish Saint’s Altar at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. He married Victoria della Rosa from San Ciorgio in Italy in 1922 and had two children Albert & Lena

Frank
Anthony
with Galli
















Rosina married Umberto Fabris and came to Sydney with her husband in 1926.
They had two children Frank & Anthony.











Galliano the youngest brother, came to Sydney with his brother Anthony in 1910. He Married Eva Bell and had two children
Graham Peter 11.9.1933 &
Anne Elizabeth 17.3.1935







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