Angela Nani is the name of this nice old lady with straight hair having a fringe on her forehead sitting on a chair, looking at the camera some afternoon in the early part of the 20th Century.
Angela Nani was born circa 1858 (all dates are approximately reckoned) in either Treviso or Belluno.
We supposed she married Domenico Billò when she was 18 years old (it could have been earlier but we're sticking to 18) in 1872.
Angela Nani & Domenico Billò had 3 daughters:
1. Maria Billò - married Narcizo Bartolozo on 21st December 1895, settling in São Sebastião da Grama-SP and much later moving to Santo André-SP.
2. Pasqua Billò aka Erminia - born on 16 April 1878, in Piave di Cadore; later married Marco Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan on 31st October 1896, in São José do Rio Pardo-SP. They had 13 children (only Américo Antonio, the first died still an infant) which were all raised at a rural property belonging to the municipality of São José do Rio Pardo-SP. The whole family moved to Marília-SP in November 1927, when she was already in her 50s.
3. Antonia Billò aka Tonina (born on 28 July 1881) for according to her daughter Angelina Antonina used to tell her children she had arrived in Brazil when she was only 7 years old. As we're almost sure she arrived in Brazil in 1888, she must have been born in 1881. Tonina married Dante Corsini in 1900.
We don't know exactly when but Domenico Billò died in an accident when they were still in their native Italy, a tree fell on top of him while he was mounted on a horse. Let's supposed that was 1882.
As Angela Nani was left a widow so young and with 3 young daughters to raise, her mother advised her to accept the offer of Luigi Uccella and they were married circa 1884.
Angela Nani & Luigi Uccella had 6 children; some still in Italy before they set sail to South America and the others in Brazil to where they migrated in 1888, settling around São José do Rio Pardo-SP.
1. Luigia Uccella (who was Olímpio Uccella's mother)
2. Lucia
3. João aka 'tio Nei' - had 5 children
4. Angelina
5. Luiz
6. Joana Uccella married Victor Caroni and lived most of their married life in Campinas-SP where he worked for Cia. Paulista de Estrada de Ferro. They had a son called Geraldo.
Luigi Uccella had bought some land (sitio) in Itobi-SP (the town next to São José do Rio Pardo) and everything looked good circa 1915. He had a good wife, a big family and now he also had a brand new house they had just finished building. The afternoon they finally set the roof on, there was a big party and Luigi drank a little more than he should. Someone took a boat and everyone was making merry in and around the lake. The boat in which Luigi was suddenly capsized and he was drawned. Angela Nani had lost her 2nd husband in yet another tragedy.
Angela kept on living at the farm house in Itobi where all her children visited her now and then. They say Angela Nani was a small woman... but very strong. She died in early 1934, when she was 76 years old. Her daughter Pasqua aka Erminia Billò Darin (53 years old) passed away on 25 May 1934, a few weeks after her mother died. Her children made a point of not telling Erminia her dear mother had died in Itobi. So Erminia died in peace in Marilia.
We don't know exactly when but Domenico Billò died in an accident when they were still in their native Italy, a tree fell on top of him while he was mounted on a horse. Let's supposed that was 1882.
As Angela Nani was left a widow so young and with 3 young daughters to raise, her mother advised her to accept the offer of Luigi Uccella and they were married circa 1884.
Angela Nani & Luigi Uccella had 6 children; some still in Italy before they set sail to South America and the others in Brazil to where they migrated in 1888, settling around São José do Rio Pardo-SP.
1. Luigia Uccella (who was Olímpio Uccella's mother)
2. Lucia
3. João aka 'tio Nei' - had 5 children
4. Angelina
5. Luiz
6. Joana Uccella married Victor Caroni and lived most of their married life in Campinas-SP where he worked for Cia. Paulista de Estrada de Ferro. They had a son called Geraldo.
Luigi Uccella had bought some land (sitio) in Itobi-SP (the town next to São José do Rio Pardo) and everything looked good circa 1915. He had a good wife, a big family and now he also had a brand new house they had just finished building. The afternoon they finally set the roof on, there was a big party and Luigi drank a little more than he should. Someone took a boat and everyone was making merry in and around the lake. The boat in which Luigi was suddenly capsized and he was drawned. Angela Nani had lost her 2nd husband in yet another tragedy.
Angela kept on living at the farm house in Itobi where all her children visited her now and then. They say Angela Nani was a small woman... but very strong. She died in early 1934, when she was 76 years old. Her daughter Pasqua aka Erminia Billò Darin (53 years old) passed away on 25 May 1934, a few weeks after her mother died. Her children made a point of not telling Erminia her dear mother had died in Itobi. So Erminia died in peace in Marilia.
Maria Billò was Angela Nani's eldest daughter.
Rissieri Darin, Erminia Pasqua's oldest surving child with his wife Elisa Surian in São José do Rio Pardo-SP.
Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan, Nani's son-in-law, with his son Octavio Darin.
Yolanda Darin, Sebastiana Macera, Octavio Darin & their pet Jolie.
