Corsini family

Maria Corsini (born on 17 January 1905, in São José do Rio Pardo-SP) married Jacomo Darin (born on 23rd November 1900).  and moved to Marilia-SP on 15 November 1927. As we have already seen at a previous post about Nilza Darin's tragic death in 1947, now we'll go into more details about the CORSINI family itself which stayed back in São José do Rio Pardo.


Dante Corsini was born in Pistoia in 1875. Eugenio Corsini and Clarinda were Dante's parents. Not much else is known about Dante's time in Italy or whenever he migrated to Brazil.

Fact is Dante Corsini married my grand-mother Erminia Billò's sister Antonia Billò aka Tonina some time around the turn of the century 1900 and had quite a few children:

1. Antonio Corsini was born on 30 June 1903 - Dante & Antonia's first child. Angela Uccela & Cartoi Tonini were his godparents. Antonio must have died in an outbreak of yellow-fever in 1903;

2. Maria Corsini was born on 17 January 1905 - she would marry her cousin Jacomo Darin on 23rd November 1924, his 24th birthday;

3. Octavio Corsini, born on 25 May 1907 - baptized on 7 July 1907 at Capella da Villa Costina; god-parents: Baptista Piva & Luiza Uccella; he would marry Laura M. Darin, Alegricia Pioltini & João Darin's daughter (note that João Darin is not my grandfather João Baptista Darin); 

4. Guido Corsini was born in 1910; he would marry Anna Buaro circa 1935;

5. Angelina Corsini was born on 13 October 1912; she would marry João Mello and would have 1. Dirce (married to Maldonado); 2. Dirceu; 3. Darcy aka Neguinho. Angelina was one of the last Corsini to die (on 1st May 1993);

6. Ferruccio Corsini was born circa 1915; aka Nego;

7. Olga Corsini was born in 1918; 7th child; Olga died on 19 November 1980, aged 62;

8. Orlando Corsini was born on 24 December 1920;

9. Geny Corsini was born circa 1923;

10. Helio Corsini was born on 6 November 1925.

Jacomo Darin & Maria Corsini circa 1924

Maria Corsini (19) marries Jacomo Darin on 23rd November 1924, the exact day Jacomo aka Jacó becomes 24 years old.

Jacomo Darin was the 3rd child born of Marco Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan & Erminia Billò. He had been named after Giacomo Darin (no relation) who shared the farm with his father Giovanni Darin. Jacomo's god-father was Giacomo's brother Giovanni Darin (no relation to his father). As the first born (Antonio Americo) died in infancy, Jacomo became the second boy, less than 2 years younger than  Rissieri Darin (born on 15 January 1899).

When Rissieri married the elementary school teacher Elisa Surian on 16 June 1924, Jacomo, who had been courting his cousin Maria Corsini (his mother's sister's daughter) pressured his parents to exert influence on Dante Corsini (Maria's very jealous father) to accept him as a son-in-law. Dante was dead set against this marriage but somehow ended up acquiescing to it and and they finally tied the knot 5 months later, before the year was out exactly on Jacomo's 24th birthday, a Monday.

Maria moved in with her in-laws and as the Darin family also had a Maria (born in 1902, three years Corsini's senior) she became known as Mariquinha, a way to tell them apart.

1. Mariquinha gave birth to a still-born boy on 21st August 1926, at 3 o'clock in the morning at Fazenda Apparecida. No name is shown in the obituary. Only 'still born baby boy from uterine trauma' (traumatismo uterino).

2. Nilza Darin was born on 11 September 1927 - Just a year after the still-birth of her baby-boy, Maria gives birth to her only daughter in Canoas-SP, a small town at the end of the line of Mogiana train track (see post about Nilza Darin for more information).

15 November 1927 - just when Nilza was 2 months old, Mother, Dad and the whole Darin Family moved from São José do Rio Pardo in the northern part the state to the new settlement of Alto Cafezal-Marilia in the south-west which was not even linked to the main railway line yet.

Maria Corsini loses contact with the rest of the Corsini Family who stay back in the Mogiana Railroad area. It used to take more than 24 hours to get from A to B then. And it was expensive too.

3. Ecydir Darin was born on 28 September 1929, in Marilia. Ecydir aka Cidir was registered in 14 October 1929.

4. Odyr Darin is born in August 1931 in Marilia. Odyr is the 4th child of Corsini & Darin.

5. Jurandyr Darin aka Nezinho was born on 12 June 1934.

early in 1934, Angela Nani, mother of Maria, Erminia & Tonina Billò died in Itobi-SP; 

Erminia Billò died a few weeks later on 25 May 1934, far away in Marília-SP.

São José do Rio Pardo-SP on the Northern part of São Paulo State was served by Companhia Mogiana de Estrada de Ferro. 

 

Ecydir Darin told me this story on 4 May 1994, a Wednesday while we watched car-racer Ayrton Senna's funeral march through the streets of São Paulo. His casquet was paraded on top of a Fireman truck through the streets of São Paulo from Guarulhos Airport to the State Legislature at Ibirapuera, taking 2 and half hours.

Ecydir said, his grandmother Erminia, who suffered from high-blood-pressure, would ask people who had recently been to the Mogiana region about her dearest old Mother and everyone had to hide the fact that Angela Nani had already died in Itobi. Erminia succumbed to her death without being aware her Mother had died a few weeks before her. 

Maria Billò, the eldest daughter, was the first to marry; a man called Narciso Bartolozo and left São José do Rio Pardo and settled in São Sebastião da Grama-SP; much later on Maria Billò with some of her children moved further away to the ABC region, on the metropolitan area of São Paulo city. Angelina Corsini told me Maria Billò Bartolozo ended up losing one leg when she was already an old woman.

Jacomo Darin (38) dies in 14 November 1938, leaving Maria Corsini (33) widowed with 4 children to raise: Nilza (11), Ecidyr (9), Odyr (8) and Nezinho (4).

Some Marília citizens (apparently free-masons) concerned about the economic situation of Maria Corsini after she was left a widow with 4 children to rear, rallied around and arranged for her a position of servant at a primary school which was to open Vila São Miguel (III Grupo Escolar) in the outskirts of town. Maria worked there until she retired some 30 years later.

III Grupo Escolar - Vila São Miguel, on rua Bartolomeu de Gusmão, where Maria Corsini worked as a servant from 1949 until she retired in the 1970s. 

I remember Tia Mariquinha so well. Mother used to visit her every now and then when I was 7 or 9, until the time we moved out of Marilia on 16 December 1960. As we lived at rua Mato Grosso we had to walk about 10 or more blocks to reach her house on the other side of the tracks. 

Angelina Corsini in 1990. 

Most of the information I've got about the Corsini Family was told me by Angelina Corsini (*13 October 1912 + 1st May 1993) circa 1990, when I visited São José do Rio Pardo a few times in search of information concerning my grand-parents marriage date. Angelina Corsini was a nice lady who used to talk freely to me at the front gate of her house. It's funny she never invited me inside but I never considered that negatively... some people in small towns are just like that; they can talk for hours at their gate or front door.

Angelina shed a lot of light into the many subjects I was pursuing then. Angelina told me about my grand-father's only sister Marianna Darin, whose son Octavio was still alive and living on the other side of town with one of his daughters. Angelina told me family secrets that were corroborated by other people later. I was really sorry to know she died suddenly in 1993.

Angelina was 7 years younger than her sister Maria Corsini aka Mariquinha who became my aunt when she married my Mother's brother Jacomo in 1924. Mind you, my Mother was only 5 years old when her brother married their cousin. In those big families it was common for older siblings to marry and have children of their own while their old parents were still giving birth to kids that were younger than their nephews and nieces.

Jacomo Darin & Maria Corsini before they married. 

Jacomo & Maria around the same time... 

from left to right: Helio Corsini, Angelina C., ?, ?, ?,?, Lauro Miotto, Wanda Darin, Maria Raquel Miotto, ?, ?, ?, Geny's husband, Geny Corsini, Zueleide Dutra, Maria Corsini, Valdemar Darin, Jurandyr Corsini aka Nezinho, his bride Lu.

from left to right: Zuleide Dutra, Maria Corsini, Valdemar Darin, the bride Lucineide, ?, Lu's friend, Odyr Darin's wife, Odyr, Yolanda Darin, Corina Lopes, Ecydir Darin, Rosa Darin, Maria Darin Dutra, America Darin, Deoclides Nogueira, Maria da Gloria Redondo & João Baptista Darin Filho.

Maria Corsini's youngst son Jurandyr Darin marries Lucineide in mid-1976 in Marilia.

Dante Corsini was born in the Province of Pistoia in Italy. We don't know exactly what 'comune'.

Amelia Paiva Bertonha wrote at Facebook's group Memoria de Marilia in 4 October 2014: Em 1948, 1949, 1950 e 1951 dei aula no 3o. Grupo da Vila São Miguel como professora substituta. Só me formei em 1950, mas mesmo sem me formar, me chamavam pois havia falta de substitutas. Devo ter conhecido sua tia Maria Corsini, Carlus Maximus. Há um fato interessante sobre esse Grupo Escolar. Minha irmã Maria Nilce estava dando aula, como substituta na sala do 4º ano primário, cheio de meninos grandes, quando percebeu que caiu algo do telhado, não havia forro, que entrou em seu decote. Ela, aos gritos, constatou que era uma baratona voadora. Houve um alvoroço e os meninos queriam salva-la da tal barata... mas... teriam que por as mãos dentro do decote. Então uma servente, correu e tirou a barata. Nessa altura, Maria Nilce estava "derrotada", enojada, começou a vomitar. Poderia ser essa moça da foto. Tal fato deu-se em 1948.......

Calus Maximus answered:  olha, Amelia Paiva Bertonha, essa minha tia Mariquinha era do tipo que 'resolvia qualquer parada'. Ela era tipo 'elétrica', relativamente baixa, mas falava rápido. Seus olhos chispavam. Na verdade ela 'puxou' para o pai dela, italiano de Pistoia, que era 'duro'. Dizem que o velho Dante Corsini era tão duro, que mesmo no leito de morte (1947), ele olhava p'ra cima e 'cuspia em Deus', exclamando 'Dio cane'! Isso só p'ra você ter uma noção da 'dureza' do velho. Mariquinha não xingava Deus, mas era 'dura'. Uma barata para ela não seria nada. rs! Nessa sua história, está me parecendo que houve intervenção da tia Mariquinha. Só ela teria tido uma atitude tão rápida  e certeira assim. Obrigado por relatá-la. E me lembro também de ouvir que a Mariquinha não tinha medo de aluno 'marmanjo', pois mesmo depois de adultos eles ainda a tratavam com reverência, quando a encontravam pela cidade por acaso.

Mariquinha foi um apelido dado pelas suas cunhadas, já que já havia uma Maria (minha tia mais velha, nascida em 1902) quando ela veio morar na casa de meus avós na Fazenda Apparecida. Maria Corsini, na verdade era prima de 1o. grau do marido Jacomo Darin. Tonina Billò era a irmã mais nova de Ermina Billò, minha avó materna. 

Não tenho certeza se no III Grupo ela era conhecida como 'dona Mariquinha' ou 'dona Maria'. Ela ficou viúva em Novembro de 1938, e começou a trabalhar no III Grupo em 1939 ou 1940.

Jardineira (smaller bus) that ran between Lins and Marília. Ecidyr Darin rode this bus many times for he went to Lins to become a priest in the 1930s.