• General Notes

  Marianna De Rosa was born in Calvanico, Italy on April 16, 1868. According to the Diocese of Salerno, her given name is Maria Angela De Rosa. Her parents were Antonio Michele De Rosa and Maria Sabarese.
  Marianna came to America with her husband in 1895 and returned with him to Italy in 1904
  Marianna’s brother came into to New York and went into business with what was apparently a famous canned produce called Pope Tomatoes. Her brother was Michele DeRosa, who on the Ellis Island website show him and his brother Gerardo DeRosa and his wife Maria Franquello coming to America together.
  Mike was 18 when they arrived in 1899 and Gerardo and Maria were 20. They apparently lived their lives in the Bronx as businessmen and went back and forth to Italy often on business.
  Maria eventually parented 9 children, 4 boys and 5 girls.
  Marianna returned to the United States in 1921 with 4 of her children, Assunta, Carmela, Pasquale and Annina.
  Marianna was blind in her later years and died after falling through a second floor window that she thought was a door. She is buried in Ascension Cemetery in Jeannette, but interestingly not next to her husband or children.
  

Details of Maria's family with Domenico Rega