Posted by
storylad- AT - earthlink  -- NAME: Rosemary
on 11/03/03 at 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: Nardone, Sepe, Longobardi, Ciferri from FONDI - Posted by
thepope- AT - ezy -- NAME: michael popoli
on February 22, 19100 at 09:59:46:
In Reply to: Re: Nardone, Sepe, Longobardi, Ciferri from FONDI posted by Dave Heney on 10/29/03 at 5:20 PM:
Hi Dave:
Just read your message.
I'm an old Millbrook gal myself and I knew all of the Sepe family. I'm a Sepe, too, but I belong to the "other Sepe family". Your mother will remember us.
She and my brother Vic were in the same graduating class from MMS (she'll know what that is) in the good old days.
We would always get the same question from others:
Are you related to _______Sepe? (Fill in the blank)
The response would always have to be "Well, we're probably related from way back but we don't know how."
Of course, we're related. But haven't found out just how yet although I'm working on it. Problem is I've been distracted by renovating the house from hell but that's almost over. Will resume my quest shortly.
I'll tell you this much. I've managed to trace the family name back with certainty to 1753 in Fondi and would you believe Sepe's in Germany in 1640's and England (Cambridgeshire) to 1538? Of course, there were countless Roman settlements in both of these areas so who knows? I have found out SO MUCH information about Fondi. I was shocked to find out that the people in that town received their Roman citizenship in 188 BC! Just to put it in perspective, that was before Julius Caesar, and somewhere between the second and third Punic Wars. (Hannibal and Scipio Africanus.) The church that the family attended in Fondi was San Pietro and was built in the 1400's on the remains of an old Roman temple. And, of course, the Appian Way runs right through the center of the town. Well, enough trivia for now. I can really get wound up about this stuff so I hope I haven't bored you.
There is one thing you could do for me to facilitate making the connection between our two families: find out the name of your grandfather's (Benedetto's) father. For reasons too complicated to go into here, the civil records stop at 1865 making it nearly impossible to find anyone born after that date. My grandparents, both born in 1860, got in just under the wire.
I don't know if your mother will remember me but I was the youngest and the only girl and we lived on Front Street. All of your aunts and uncles, and your grandparents had to walk by our house to get to theirs. I remember just about everything having to do with those days in Millbrook but then, I was a little kid and little kids look up to big kids. We not only knew their names and where they lived but also knew the names of their dogs, their cats, their goldfish....only kidding about the goldfish.
Hope this has given you some of what you want to know.
If not, your eyes must be glazed over by this time.
That's the reaction I usually get when I begin to wax poetic about the history, even from my brothers.
But what do they know?
Ciao
Rosemary Sepe Neilson
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