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In process and coming soon. Toni was born in CCantalupo and involved with Cutone, Martelli, Scioli and other families in Cantalupo nel Sannio.

ANTONIO CRIVELLONE -7 

and many others from Cantalupo nel Sannio were recruited in Cantalupo to come on the railroads. In 1902 Antonio - 7 came to America, through Ellis Island, New York, to work on the Butte. Anacpmda amd Pacific railroad. This raidlroad was based in Anaconda Montanta. One will note that many descendants’ children were born in Anaconda, Montana, North Dakota, and points west. An excellent photo of workers is on the photo page.

Antonio-7** worked for Antonio-124 (a cousin) on the railroad. Antonio-124 learned blacksmithing from Fernando Barbieri-59. All three from Cantalupo.

When Antonio-7 saw Spokane, not sure how he got there specifically, with it’s fruit trees, etc., he declared that this was the place he wanted to settle in America. He returned to Cantalupo and returned to America via Boston. His wife, Ersila-8 and their son Alfonso-5 came. aslso via Boston in 1907. Antonito opend opened a tailor shop. He specialized in making vests (part of suits - the pants and jackets tailored by others).

He raised 7 children, and moved to Chicago when suits started being mass produced combining jackes, vests and pants in one basic process.. Several of Antonio's brothers who also came to America and temporarily worked in his tailor shop... they painted in gold “Tony Crivellone and Brothers Tailor Shop” on the windows of the shop attached to the house. The brothers, were Salvatore-37, Pompilio-39, Dan-17 and Nicolo-40. Salvatore and Pompilio returned to Cantalupo. Nicolo went back and forth, but eventually stayed in Cantalupo - his wife always stayed in Cantalupo. Dan stayed in America and settled in Chicago.

Antonio-7 liked cars, but never learned to drive. He bought one of the original DeSoto touring cars and Alfonso-5 was in charge of driving while the other boys had jobs of washing the car, etc. He also owned a Stevens-Duryea.. Antonio and Ersilia were Godparents to Oresto Crivellone-503, who was born in Anaconda, Montana.

Antonio-7 went to Cantalupo in 1922 (we have the passport) to visit, but more important to bring back a potential wife for his son Alfonso-5. It was the normal practice that once a young girl made the trip it was "a done deal." However, Fernando Barbieri-59 told Carminia that if she didn't like the match she could come back to Cantalupo. The match worked and six children were born.

Antonio-7 bought a building in Chicago that unfortunately was lost in the great depression . Some of the boys swore they heard ghosts in the building and from time to time they would put “flour” on the floors to see if the ghost would leave footprints.

ALFONSO CRIVELLONE-5, worked for his father Anatonio above, in the tailor shop in Spokane, and moved to Chicago, sometime around 1930, with his father when “production” suits forced the “hand made” suits out of the market as they were too expensive. Alfonso-5 and his children use to go to Grace Spiotto's-185 mother's house to pick grapes and then go back to our house on 73st and Loomis in Chicago and made wine in the basement. In 1947 Alfonso moved his family to Milwaukie, Oregon as his son Anthony-30 already had moved there and lived with Lillie-22. Both he and Carminia-6, his wife are buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Chicago, head to head with Antonio-7 and Ersilia-8.

ERSILIA BARBIERI - 8 Motherr Pasqualla-62 smoked a pipe. And from what I understood Ersilia prepared the meals for the prisoners in the village jail. someday.

ROMOLO CRIVELLONE-9, worked for the City of Chicago. At one time he was a conductor or on the street car system. I, Don Crivellone-1, was always fascinated by his change machine. Romolo was always a jokester and storyteller. Romolo was very, very helpful in putting together information on the Crivellones. He was probably the most single knowledgeable person about the family. He was a great guy.

VINCENZO CRIVELLONE-11, taught tailoring to young men in Cantalupo, was paid in goods. Spouse Adlelaide Petrecca was sister to Arcangelo’s-121 spouse Sofia Petrecca.

DAN CRIVELLONE-17, came to America at the age of 16 years old. He was a tailor who went to Spokane and worked for some time with his brother Antonio-7. He also went to Chicago.

ADLELAIDE "LILLIE" CRIVELLONE-22, who inspired me, Don Crivellone-1 to start recording information about the Crivellone family which led to the Barbieri family. She did this while she had MS and was totally incapacitated, yet had a great outlook on life. Lillie was a tough disciplinary who made everyone tow the mark, but it was always in your best interest because she cared. She was an exceptional friend to her brothers and sister.

ANNA MARIE CRIVELLONE-36, came from Italy to Spokane. The marriage to Louis Manfred was arranged... it is believed.

SALVATORE CRIVELLONE-37 , was a happy, immaculate man who whistled a lot and the children always knew he was coming and he often had candy for the children. This story was related by Adlelaide-22 (Lillie) who had a great interest in the Crivellone family. He boarded for a while in Spokane with his brother Antonio-7 as he was also a tailor. He also worked for Unique Tailors in Spokane. He returned to Cantalupo with another brother Pompilio-39. Salvatore’s first wife died at the age of 33, while pregnant, working-building a house. The child, Victor, survived. His second wife Anna, also know as Mama Consiglia, was living in Cantalupo in the middle 70s and was in her early 90s. His children were from his first wife. Salvatore is buried in Cantalupo.

PETRONEILLA CRIVELLONE-38, died from heart failure cause by the shock of stopage of blood circulation. Both legs were amputated 6 months before her death.

POMPILIO CRIVELLONE-39, The information is very "fuzzy" at this time was married 2 times. Two of his wifes were sisters (Maria Anddolorata Crivellone-113 and Ellvira Crivellone-114) and they were sisters of Raffaele Crivellone-111. Also another Crivellone, Carmella-116? Assunta was his last wife - how can this be?

When he worked on the railroads in Anacona, Montana, he was a shoemaker. Some of his children may be in Montreal, Canada.

NICOLA CRIVELLONE-40, was a tailor, lived several times in Chicago, was known to many of us as Uncle Nic. It has been said that he traveled 11 times between Cantalupo and America. Carmella his wife was always in Cantalupo she was hit by a police car coming out of church in 1971. Nic worked for Vincenzo-55 on Harvard street in Chicago.

BENIAMINO CRIVELLONE-45, at times ran a bar in Cantalupo. Was the village lamplighter

UMBERTO CRIVELLONE-56, owned a tailor shop in Naples. His daughter Felicetta-101 spoke of him in revered terms. He must have been an exceptional person. He met an unfortunate death, he was killed in a hit and run accident while crossing the road to buy some fruit. Felicetta gave me, Don Crivellone-1, some photos and the crest that he used for his shop in Naples. .

VICTOR CRIVELLONE-57, was the secretary to Mrs. Mussolini after WWII

FERDINANDO BARBIERI-59, has always been referred to as "The Master." He was an artisan. He was an excellent iron worker, made guns & gunstocks, put tthe cross, along with his sone Elviro on the steple of the church and the clock in the church tower. I, Don-1 have a magnificent pizzelle iron he made for his daughter (my mother-6) and father-5 when they were married in 1922. He installed the clock in the tower of the Church, San Salvatore and fell to the ground in the process, but survived. Several Crivellones studied under him, they were Antonio Crivellone-124 and Antonio Crivellone-533..

ELVIRO-65 AND TULIA-605. Tulia is a sweet woman who Don-1 and Robin-2 had the good fortune to meet several times and Tulia always gave us "heck" for not speaking Italian. But we always communicated. She and Elviro gave us a lot of information via return addresses on letters, photos, etc. Through them we learned of Addolorato-606 and his family in Olten, Switzerland who we like to count among our friends and have visited them many times. Tulia was helpful in introducing us to people in Cantalupo, showing us the Church, the cemetery, etc

CARLOTTA BARBIERI-95 was the daughter of Alfredo Barbieri-622 and was married to Eusanio Crivellone-665. She was born in 1936and had two children. She died in 1963 of a very strange diease. Her photo on her crypt in the Cantalupo cemetery reveals a very pretty woman. Somewhere I have what was engraved on her crypt and when I find it I will insert it here. Since she was born in the same year as I was, but died so early I have a certain feeling for her.

MARIO CRIVELLONE-98, worked for Minister of Belli Arti and when Don-1 and Robin-2 met him in Rome he was recently retired. We called him and his spouse Teresa-205 out of the blue and were invited immediately to their home and where we were treated like royalty. Don and Robin thought that next time they were in Rome perhaps we could put together a meeting of the Crivellones. Then we found out that Mario fell down an elevator shaft that was not protected, in a hospital he was visiting because he felt ill. Mario gave us pictures of his grandmother Adlelaide Petrecca spouse of Vincenzo-11. A rare find. Adledlaide had an artificial hand.

Mario’s son became a doctor and his daughter married an architect in Salareno.

ANTONIO CRIVELLONE-125, learned blacksmithing from Ferndinando Barbieri-59, came to work on the railroads in Anaconda, Montana as did many young men from Cantalupo. Was Antonio's-7 boss. His family is in and around Tacoma, Washington.

ANNIBALE CRIVELLONE-136, came to Pennsylvania for about 3 years, then to Missoula, Montana and was a cook on the railroad.

PILIPO CRIVELLONE-141, came to America, with his son Mike-538, to Anaconda Montana before the depression. Due to lack of work during the depression returned to Cantalupo. Beniamino-155 another son, return to Chicago and remained there and started a large family tree.

EUSANIO CRIVELLONE-144, was the postman in Cantalupo.

SALVATORE CRIVELLONE-145, was a shoemaker in Cantalup.

ALFREDO CRIVELLONE-161, owned a shoemakers shop in Chicago. He was the only one of his family to come to America. I Don-1, recall going to his shop many times and he was my Godfather

ANTONIO CRIVELLONE-187, owned a grocery store in Rome.

ERNEST CRIVELLONE-209, lost mother at 16, lived with priests and sistes.

ANTONIO CRIVELLONE-225, came to America with Luigi-224 and Concetta-230. Their ship landed in New York City on September 9, 1911. Family legend has it that Al Capone's mother was on the same ship. Antonio-235 died young at 35 years old of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was a tailor and his spouse Maria was a seamstress.

ENRICO CRIVELLONE-255, was a lieutenat in the Carabinieri.

LUIGI CRIVELLONE-488, was a Caribineri, WWII, a carpenter and I have a cryptic note about a vineyard in Cantalupo, I hope so, a least one Crivellone should have had a vineyard.

ANTONIO CRIVELLONE-533, was born in North Dakota, his father Alfonso Antonio-140 was a painter who painted railroad cars. He returned to Cantalupo in 1927. Antonio-533 was in the Italian Army during World War II and was captured by the Germans in the later part of the war and was a prisoner of war. He was interned in Stutgart, Germany and escaped with several other Italians. He walked mostly at night all the way back to Cantalupo, and when he arrived he looked so bad that no one recognized him. It took months to get himself clean. He recalls that a German farmer gave him some clothes and bread, without that help in the winter he might not have made it back to Cantalupo. He came back to America in 1955 with his wife Carmella-553 and two daughters and settled in Brooklyn. It was the year his father, who also returned to Cantalupo died. Eventually moved to Florida. Antonio was a carpenter by trade.

ANTHONY CRIVELLONE-540, ran a bar and grocery store (1980) in Cantalupo.

ALFREDO BARBIERI-622. He came to America and ran into some difficulties. He apparently shot his unfaithful girl friend and was jailed. Among those who helped raise bail money was Ersilia Barbieri Crivellone-8. Alfredo was deported. During Don-1 and Robin's-2 1969 trip to Cantalupo we meet Alfredo-622 and talked to him. An interesing fellow - he loved baseball and mentioned quite a few ball players. Funny they were all Italian.. like Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzo.Don't lie to publish the bad parts of stories, but they are history.

MIKE CRIVELLONE-667, postman and grocery store owner, Cantalupo