Re: Pete Arduini/Arduino
ARDUINI OR ARDUINO
Posted By: Jim Stuber (email) In Response To: Pete Arduini/Arduino (Susan)
Date: 12/29/2009 at 15:00:57
I have free access to Ancestry.com at my local library and found two additional records for your Peter.
He arrived in America on the ship La Bretagre sailing from LeHavre to New York, arriving on October 18, 1911. That date agrees with his 1920 census immigration year. The ship contained passengers from Northern Italy. He listed his place of origin as Villanova, Italy and listed as contact there his wife Arvinio Josephina Arduino. His destination was Chicago, IL, so moving to Centerville and then Milwaukee (see below) after his arrival is very possible.
Then I found him living in Milwaukee, WI in the 1930 census, age 46, with his wife Josephine, age 39, and two children Anna, age 20, and son Lino, age 15. In that census he listed his occupation as "Retail Store" and "Grocery meats". That matches well with his occupation in the 1920 census.
I suspect the information on his marital status in the 1920 is one of those errors often found in the censuses, particularly when the respondent does not speak the language very well. The census taker may well have asked "Do you have a wife" and and he answered "No", meaning "not here", but not that he wasn't married.
Does that match up with the family information you have?
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