Rua Campos Salles, 350 Marília-SP

my second-cousin Paulo Roberto Camargo, his sister Mariângela and their aunt Beatriz Scarpetti having my grandfather Giovanni Battista Darin's house in the background. The original wooden house was torn down circa 1934 and a brick house was built circa 1949.

Beatriz holds her niece Mariângela Camargo & her cousin Herminia Maria Batista; the boys are her nephew Paulo Roberto Camargo and cousin José Carlos Batista.

Paulo Roberto Camargo, Marco Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan & Mariangela Camargo...

Beatriz Scarpetti resting on the stoop that leads to the causeway which connected my Grandfather's porch with the street gate. See the lamplight in the background. 

Paulo Roberto at the back yard of the house on Rua Campos Salles, 350. See the picket fence that divided my Grandfather's house from the house next door which was still made out of wood. 

In the backyard circa 1952: Rosa Darin, Angela Darin holds her grandson Paulo Roberto Camargo, Edson Scarpetti looks on from behind - between Paulo & Angela; Betty Scarpetti Camargo & Beatriz Scarpetti.

 Bia and some friends of hers... mind you, this is not Rua Campos Salles... 

Betty Scarpetti Camargo died on 10 November 2022, at 10:00 am. Her remains were buried on the same day at 5:00 pm. She was 90 years old. Betty was among the Darin-Scarpetti family who lived the most years. Maybe Salvatore Scarpetti, her paternal grandfather, lived longer than her.

Rua Campos Salles, 350 

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ROSA DARIN's religious articles

Rosa Darin (1915-1996) was a very religious lady. She was born in São José do Rio Pardo-SP and moved to Alto-Cafezal-Marília in November 1927 when she was only 12 years old. 

As the Darin Family always lived on the Alto Cafezal side of town, Rosa used to go to church at Santo Antonio's in its various phases. 

Here are some religious articles Rosa left when she died in 1996.

Prefeitura de Marilia

Prefeitura de Marilia on the corner of Rua 9 de Julho and Rua Sao Luiz. It was built in the early 1930s. My grandfather Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan had a mixed-business shop named Casa Riopardense on the very spot which he had opened in early 1928. The business went bankrupt due to my Grand-dad's naïveté in believing he could sell by credit.  Customers would take merchandise and never paid back. Mr. Darin who was born in Belluno, Italy in 1871, arrived in Brazil in 1888 and lived most of his life as a farmer in São José do Rio Pardo-SP. He was not definetely cut out to be a businessman. 

He made a little capital and at the age of 56 he thought he'd start a new life as a small business man and moved to Alto-Cafezal-Marilia in November 1927. He'd should've known better than enter a new medium at such a late age. 

After that he worked as a book-keeping man for a few sound business men in Marilia and found means to support his large family for 32 years until his death in 1959.

Rua 9 de Julho with Paço Municipal on the left-hand side and Hotel Lider on the right looking toward Avenida Sampaio Vidal. 

On the left-hand side half-block, is Antonio Hideharu Nakagawa's Farmácia Marília; Hotel Líder takes almost the whole block on the right-hand side.

A Predilecta, lottery shop started in the late 1930s on the corner of rua 9 de Julho and rua 4 de Abril.

Claudio Amorim 1934 - 1993 (uncle)

Claudio Amorim, born on 6 December 1931, in Ourinhos-SP. 

Claudio Amorim's 'Carteira de Saúde' (Health book) issued on 11 June 1947; Claudio lived on Avenida Rio Claro, 69, Marília-SP; on the right Claudio's 'Carteira de Trabalho' (Worker's book) shows he started working at Hospital Maríla S.A. as a nurse-assistant on 1st January 1958, having left the job 3 months later on 31st March 1958. 

My Mother had 6 brothers & 5 sisters; my Father had 3 brothers & 3 sisters, so I ended up having 9 uncles and 8 aunts. Most married and had children too. I had a large family. From my Mother's side uncles & aunts were older people for she had been the baby daugher. On my Father's side they were younger for he was only the 2nd oldest. From all my 9 uncles, Claudio Amorim was # 7 and perhaps the one I had most contact with for a variety of reasons. 

1958 is the farthest back in time I remember uncle Claudio Amorim, when he lived with his wife Francisca and their 4 children in Lácio-SP, a town 8 km east of Marília. He probably lived there for rents must have been lower in the outskirts. One day I went to Lácio with him. He probably needed to fetch something at home and took his 9 year nephew along. It didn't take long for Claudio & his family to move back to Marília, to live on the small wooden house built on the backyard of aunt Dulce's brick house on Avenida Independência between rua Mato Grosso & rua Inconfidência. 

Claudio & his family must have lived in that small house for a few weeks for before 1958 was out they said goodbye and moved to São Paulo, where his brother Mario Amorim worked as a social worker at Hospital das Clinicas and managed to find Claudio employment at that hospital. 

I remember the day Claudio & family left Marília to move to São Paulo, 500 km east. It must have been September 1958, for Reinaldo, their fourth child had been born on 18 May 1958, was still a baby being carried in his mother's arms when they all walked past our house on Rua Mato Grosso, 393, on their way to Marília railway station to get the 7:00 o'clock evening train to São Paulo. Aunt Francisca waved goodbye to my Mother and us all who were at the balcony. 

It would be more than 2 years the next time I would see them again. My own family finally moved to São Paulo on 16 December 1960. My father with Dulce's husband José Coelho, had already moved there circa May 1960. Father & Zé Coelho rented a small place on Rua da Consolação where they set up a shoe repair shop while we waited in Marília until the school year was through for us to join them there. 

We went to live at Rua Simpatia, 42, in Vila Madalena. The very first week we were in the new house, Claudio showed up after work and took me with him to Rua Iperó, 11-A, where he lived with Francisca (29), Claudinho (8), Claudete (5), Jacinto (4) and Reinaldo (2). Francisca had yet another pregnancy while living in Vila Madalena but the baby-girl was still-born on 22nd November 1959.  

I still remember that particular day for Claudio and I walked up rua Simpatia all the way until we reached rua João Moura, turned left, went past rua Madalena and turned the next street which was rua Iperó and got to his place which was actually a bedroom with a double-bed, one bunkbed and a small kitchen. Claudio and family wouldn't live too much longer in Vila Madelena, for he had bought a lot in far-away Rio Pequeno where he planned to build a house so he didn't have to pay rent any more.

Vila Madalena-Pinheiros region: we lived on Rua Simpatia, 42; so to get to Uncle Claudio's place we went up rua Simpatia until we got to Rua João Moura, turned left, went past Rua Madalena, turned left the next street which was Rua Iperó, walked up some 100 metres and got to his little house. The irony of it all was that Uncle Mário (Claudio's older brother) lived at the beginning of Rua João Moura but on the other side of a great hill one could not cross. Much later circa 1964, aunt Dulce & family  moved up from Rua Girassol, next to São Paulo Cemetery to Rua Girassol corner with Rua Rodésia which was not far from Rua Iperó. 

5 March 1961 - I'm not sure the exact day I went to see Cecil B. de Mile's 'The Ten Commandments' at Cine Boulevard, but it was around this time. It could have been late January or early February. My uncle Claudio, who worked the night shift at the orthopaedic section of Hospital das Clínicas dropped by us and asked me if I wanted to go and see it. I jumped at the idea of going to the pictures in São Paulo, for I had just moved in from Marília-SP in late December 1960, and had never had the chance to visit any movie theatre in the big city. 

Little did I know that day will stay in my memory until the day I die. We took the Praça Ramos de Azevedo tram car # 28 in front of Padaria Novera at the corner of Rua Fradique Coutinho & Rua Aspicuelta and off we went downtown. I still looked at São Paulo's skyline with awe when we got off the tram at the final stop next to the imposing Theatro Municipal.  

I felt Uncle Claudio was proud to know how to move easily in such a tumultous city as São Paulo, having only been living here for 2 years. We walked down rua Conselheiro Crispiniano, crossed Largo do Paisandú into rua Antonio de Godoy where dazzling Cine Boulevard was, having been opened in 1958, so it was less than 3 years old. I think we went to the 12:30 session. It lasted 4 hours including an intermission and when we left the cinema at 4:30 pm I was walking on clouds bedazzled by the enormity of the spectacle.

From that day on I found out São Paulo had a world of wonders concentrated in the its centre. There were countless cinema houses on the axis of Avenida São João and Avenida Ipiranga. In Rio de Janeiro they called it 'Cinelândia' (Land of Cinema) but in São Paulo they didn't bother to find a name for it. Sooner than later, I made a point of watching at least one major movie a week there. It was a pleasure to walk downtown streets looking at cinema's boards announcing next attractions.   

Three months after I had seen 'The 10 Commandments', uncle Claudio had some news for me. He found me employment at a laboratory on on the 2nd floor of a medium-sized building on Rua Theodoro Sampaio, 2112. It was a small private lab owned by doctor Flávio da Silveira Miranda, a scion of a Paulista family who never hit the big time but liked to be independent. He needed a boy to wash glassware used in the preparations of tests of blood, urine & faeces. Not a very healthy job for a 12 year boy. I started working for Laboratório Universal on 28 June 1961. At first it was only  part-time, from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. I used to go to night school at Ginásio da Vila Madalena, on Rua Morás (it can be seen at the above map below at the extreme left. I worked part-time in 1961, 1962 and 1963. From 1964 to 1967 I worked full time.

Around 1961 & 1962, uncle Claudio used to show up at Laboratório for he was the one who collected blood for tests. He stayed there for a couple of hours and only in the morning shift so I hardly ever saw him. Claudio taught Luiz Antonio Signore, a tall boy 1 year older than I to collect blood so after 1963, Claudio was out of his morning job. But I don't think he cared much for he was in the process of building his house in Rio Pequeno, so he needed time to help bricklayers to put up the house. 

Sometime in 1962, Claudio took me on another memorable trip. This time we took a bus on Rua Paes Leme next to Largo de Pinheiros and went all the way to Rio Pequeno, some 12 km away. I remember the year for the song that was playing then was 'As folhas verdes de verão' (The green leaves of summer) sung by Wilma Bentivegna (written by Dimitri Tionkin for the sound-track of 'Alamo'). 

The house where they lived was made out of wood, there was a deep water well where they got the water they needed by pumping it with a bucket attached to a long rope. The area was bare of resources. Hardly a bakery around... most streets were not paved and one could see an extensive vegetable plantation owned by Japanese who were the best growers of lettuce, tomatoes, cabbages etc. There was a clean rivulet that crossed the main road called Estrada do Rio Pequeno, where the Japanese got the water to irrigate their plantation. 

Claudio (45) & his older brother João (53) at their Mother's 80th birthday on 2nd August 1977. 

Claudio Amorim (45) with sons Claudinei & Arnaldo.  

Claudio died on 24 November 1993, at a hospital in São Paulo. As his Mother Albina and Father Fernando, Claudio had hyper tension aka high blood pressure.

Alto Cafezal, Novembro 1927 / 1928

15  NOVEMBRO  1927

Aqui vai um resumo da saga da Familia Darin, que abandonou fazenda de sua propriedade na região de São José do Rio Pardo-SP para se aventurar num lugar novo chamado 'Alto Cafezal', depois conhecido como Marilia.

João Baptista Darin, imigrado de Belluno, Italia em 1888, era dono de uma fazenda próspera, mas com 57 anos e já cansado da lavoura estava com vontade de mudar de ramo. Justamente nesta época, circa 1926-1927 chegava-se notícias boas do oeste do estado de São Paulo, região chamada Alta Paulista, que estava sendo desmatada para o plantio de mais cafezais e a construção da Cia.Paulista de Estrada de Ferro. Diziam que era um novo Eldorado, onde as pessoas faziam fortuna rapidamente. O Velho Darin cometeu a loucura de abandonar o certo pelo duvidoso. Abandonou a região de São José do Rio Pardo, bem desenvolvida e com bastante infra-estrutura, para se aventurar no ‘mato’, sem nem mesmo ter visitado o lugar primeiro, para se certificar se era facto ou lenda. 

Em São José as casas eram de tijolos, ao passo que no Alto Cafezal (Marília) as casas eram feitas de madeira recentemente retiradas dos desmatamentos frenéticos que aconteciam a toque de caixa.  Além do mais o solo de Marília provou ser um ‘areião’, que se esgotou logo com a agricultura intensiva, ao passo que a região da Mogiana era de solo fértil. 

E a familia Darin emigrou novamente, depois de exatos 39 anos que tinham chegado da Europa.  João Baptista & Erminia, seu irmão Francesco, e mais uma penca de mais de 20 pessoas tomaram trens, onibus, jardineiras, carroças e vai-lá-se-saber quais outros modos de transportes, para chegarem no meio da selva, Marília, que não era nem município ainda.

Vamos à contagem das pessoas que abandonaram São José do Rio Pardo para fazerem a viagem à Marília no dia 15 de Novembro de 1927:

1. João Baptista Darin (56); 2. Ermínia Billò (49);  3. Rissieri Darin (28); 4. Elisa Surian (34); 5. Ivo João (5 meses);  6. Jacomo (27); 7. Mariquinha Corsini (22);  8. Nilza Darin (1 mês e 4 dias);  9. Maria Darin Dutra (25);  10. Gumercindo Dutra (33);  11. Moacyr Dutra (3 anos);  12. Gecely Dutra (1 ano); 13. Angela Darin (23);  14. Luiz Darin (22);  15. America Darin (20); 16. Octavio (18);  17. João Baptista Filho (16); 18. Nina (Olimpia) (14); 19. Rosa (12);  20. Yolanda (8);  21. Valdemar (6);  22. Tio Chico - Francesco Darin (5)];  23. Antonio-Tóni (23); 24. Trindade (22) estava grávida de 6 meses;  25. Luiza-Giggia (19); 26. Joanin (16).

Vinte e seis pessoas em retirada para irem morar no ‘final da linha’.  Aliás, a linha férrea da Cia.Paulista ainda não tinha chegado em Marília.  Alí era mato puro, algumas ruas abertas no meio da mata.  E os Darin foram viver numa casa de táboas na esquina da Rua Minas Geraes (futura rua 9 de Julho) e rua São Luiz. No mesmo local o Velho abriu uma loja de secos & molhados.

Ermínia Billò ficou totalmente isolada das irmãs Tonina e Maria, e da própria mãe Angela Nani.

Da antiga familia Darin que tinha vindo da Italia em 1888, só Marianna Darin ficou na Mogiana e seus dois irmãos se aventuraram no sertão.

Logicamente não se sabe como foram os primeiros dias dessa nova realidade, mas não devem ter sido muito agradáveis.  Havia muita insalubridade nesses ambientes de ‘desmatamento’, e a primeira vítima não custou tombar.  Mas antes da primeira morte, houve o primeiro nascimento em novas terras.

Nina (Olimpia Darina), Irina, Analia, Rosa Darin & Lila sentadas num tronco na Avenida Rio Branco - não há data, mas sabendo-se que Nina tinha 14 anos e Rosa Darin tinha 12 anos quando chegaram em Marília em Novembro de 1927, eu arriscaria que essa foto foi tirada circa 1929; Nina não teria mais que 16... aliás, nenhuma dessas meninas tem cara de ter mais que 16 anos.  

1928

No início de 1928, os 26 membros da familia se acomodavam na casa que o Nonno comprou na esquina das ruas São Luiz e Minas Geraes (futura rua 9 de Julho), que era considerado o centro de Marília-Alto Cafezal.  Havia a grande família do Nonno Darin (1), mais as pequenas familias do tio Chico (2), da Maria & Gumercindo (3), Rissieri & Elisa (4), Jacó & Mariquinha (5) e Tóni & Trindade (6).  Seis sub-grupos familiares vivendo sob um mesmo teto.

Logo, o casal Gumercindo & Maria mudou-se, com seus filhos Moacyr (3) e Gecely (1) para uma casa que ele próprio construiu lá distante, dentro do mato, mas na própria rua São Luiz. Maria Dutra estava grávida pela 3^ª vez. Zuleide conta que seu pai desmatou (na foice) uma data, num mato e construiu uma casa de pau-a-pique. Mais tarde, quando a prefeitura delineou a rua São Luiz para aquele local, a casa ficou ‘fora-de-esquadro’,  lá em cima, no morro, desnivelada com a rua, e o povo achava graça dizendo que parecia uma ‘casa de pombos’. Só bem mais tarde é que Gumercindo construiu aquele sobradinho na linha certa da rua São Luiz, onde morou até o final de sua vida.

Gumercindo trabalhou no comércio de couro, fazendo sapatões (?). Talvez venha daí o contacto com o húngaro Francisco Vidrik, que tinha uma casa de couro na mesma rua São Luiz, onde o Nonno Darin terminou seus dias trabalhando de guarda-livros.

Em Março de 1928 nasce o primeiro filho de Tóni e Trindade, também chamado Antonio Darin.

15 de Setembro de 1928 casa-se Angela Darin (24) com Jayme Scarpetti (20). Não se sabe a razão de tanta pressa para esse casamento, já que os noivos se conheciam há menos de um ano.

Jayme e seu pai  Salvatore Scarpetti (50) eram pioneiros no lugar, tendo chegado no Alto Cafezal em 1925, quando só havia algumas picadas por ali.  Provenientes de Limeira, trabalharam na derrubada da mata, construindo a primeira serraria do Alto Cafezal, existindo foto dela nos livros sobre a história de Marília. Julgando que taboas de madeira era a matéria-prima para fabricação de todas as casas, inclusive edifícios públicos e hoteis, os Scarpetti deviam estar muito bem monetariamente. 

Alto Cafezal-Marília era um lugar com maioria esmagadora de homens, pois eles se aventuravam por lá sem suas esposas e filhos, para só depois de se assentarem, mandarem vir as cônjuges e a prole.  Talvez, porisso Jayme tenha sido tão rápido em casar com uma das Darin, já que mulher jovem era artigo raro por aquelas bandas.  Jayme tirou a sorte grande quando casou-se com Angela Darin. 

20 Setembro 1928 morre Francesco Darin, o querido ‘tio Chico’, as 6:00 horas, de colapso cardíaco, atestado pelo Dr. José Perri, sendo declarante João Baptista Darin, segundo documento da prefeitura de Marília.  Cinco dias depois do casamento de Angela Darin há o primeiro funeral na familia em terras marilienses.  Tio Chico é enterrado no Cemitério da Saudade, uma das primeiras sepulturas, alí perto da entrada.  Mais tarde, com a construção do muro e alargamento, seu túmulo foi removido e os ossos lançados no ossário coletivo.

13 Novembro 1928 nasce Zuleide Dutra, 3^ª criança de Maria & Gumercindo Dutra. 

Marilia ainda não era comarca, e para registrar a menina, Gumercindo teria que ir a Assis; então ele resolveu esperar um pouco mais e registrar Zuleide em São José do Rio Pardo, pois ele teria que ir até a Mogiana para tratar da venda da fazenda do Nonno.  Eram negócios ainda pendentes desde a retirada deles da região, em 15 de Novembro de 1927, exatamente um ano antes.

Nota-se que Gumercindo funcionava como ‘mão-direita’ (lugar-tenente) do Velho Darin, que preferia que o genro tratasse de seus assuntos financeiros, invés dos próprios filhos.  Parece que havia um bom entendimento entre genro e sogro. 

1929

Em Janeiro de 1929 nasce a terceira criança de Rissieri & Elisa, a linda Lilia Therezinha, talvez homenagem à Therezinha de Liseux, que tinha sido canonizada em Roma 4 anos anos (1925).

Fevereiro de 1929 casa-se America (21) com Deoclydes Carlos Nogueira (21).

Não sabe-se muito sobre o casamento de America, apenas 5 meses depois de Angela. Eu ouvi dizer que Erminia Billò não queria que a filha se casasse com Deoclydes, pois ele ‘tinha amante’.  Na verdade, America casou-se grávida, pois Milton, seu primeiro filho, nasce no início de Novembro, 7 meses depois do casamento.  Não sei a profissão de Deoclydes nesses tempos;  mais tarde ele se tornou motorista de caminhão.  Não sei a proveniencia de Deoclydes tampouco.

4 de Abril de 1929 – Marília se emancipa e torna-se município.

28 de Setembro de 1929 nasce Ecidyr Darin, que será mais conhecido como Cidir; terceira criança de Jacomo & Mariquinha.  Ecidyr foi registrado no dia 14 de Outubro de 1929.

29 Setembro 1929 morre Antonio Darin Filho, com 19 meses, filhinho do Tóni.  No atestado de óbito diz:  “morto às 3 horas de 29 Outubro 1929, filho de Antonio Darin, profissão: lavrador e Trindade Alcaide Darin, prendas domésticas, tendo sido declarante Luiz Darin e o Atestado de óbito firmado por Dr. Coriolano Carvalho, que deu como causa mortis Dispepsia Crônica, sendo enterrado no Cemitério de Marilia, quadra 16, chapa 84.”

Assim era Marília... no dia 28 de Setembro nasceu o Cydir e no dia seguinte morreu o Toninho... um verdadeiro inferno tropical.

25 Outubro 1929 morre a menina Lilia Therezinha, com apenas 9 meses de idade.  No livro está: Lilia faleceu as 13 horas. Foi declarante João Baptista Darin, sendo o atestado de óbito firmado pelo dr. José Sampaio, sendo enterrada no Cemitério de Marília, Quadra 16, chapa 75.

5 de Novembro de 1929 nasce Milton Carlos Nogueira, 1^º filho de America Darin e Euclides Carlos Nogueira.

Cemitério da Saudade em foto dos anos 1930s, antes da construção do muro de tijolos. Ai foram enterrados os corpos do tio Francesco Darin (20 Setembro 1928), do filho do primo Toni Darin, Antonio Darin Filho (29 Setembro 1929) e da prima Lilia Therezinha (25 Outubro 1929). Depois de 3 mortes em apenas 2 anos, parte da familia Darin, apavorada, voltou para a região de São José do Rio Pardo. A sepultura dos Darin ficava perto do portão principal, que aparece prominente na foto. Nos anos 1940s a Prefeitura construiu um muro de tijolos e as sepulturas proximas da cerca e da entrada foram 'desapropriadas' e os restos mortais jogados em vala comum, que se denominou de 'cruzeiro'. 

1930 

Rissieri & Elisa &  Primos Darin retornam a São José do Rio Pardo em 1930 

A coisa estava ruim entre os Darin. Elisa, inconformada da perda de mais um filho, dessa vez sua Lilia Therezinha, temia pela segurança do pequeno Ivo João (3), já que em Marília se morria só de tomar água não fervida.  Elisa arranjou uma maneira de ir embora daquele lugar insalubre e começou a preparar a viagem, já que tinha cadeira como professora do Grupo Escolar de São José.

Os primos Tóni, Giggia e Joanin muito tristes por terem perdido o pai logo depois da chegada a esse lugar estranho, aproveitaram a ‘carona’ e voltaram à região da Mogiana. Concluíram que a melhor saída era voltar para São José do Rio Pardo, e lá se foram.

Não se sabe a data exata de quando foram embora, mas foram.  Rissieri nunca mais voltou ao seio da família, e os primos Tóni, Giggia e Joanin também se desgarraram do resto dos Darin.  E aí os laços se perderam.

A turma que voltou para São José do Rio Pardo nos primeiros dias de 1930 são:  1. Rissieri; 2. Elisa; 3. Ivo; 4. Tóni; 5. Trindade; 6. Giggia; 7. Joanin.

Luiza (Giggia) Darin

Nos anos 1990 eu tentei achar esses primos, mas eles já deviam estar mortos.  Angelina Corsini disse à Thereza Favero (neta de Marianna Darin) que Luiza (Giggia) Darin tinha morrido nos anos 90, mas tinha ainda duas filhas, Nilza e Cleide morando em Mocóca-SP e outra (Elza) em São José do Rio Pardo-SP.  Giggia teve um filho de nome Roque, que vivia em São Paulo. Giggia casou-se com Anselmo Ludovic; informação de Angelina Corsini,  irmã mais nova da tia Mariquinha Corsini, que eu visitei algumas vezes nos anos 1990.  Angelina faleceu em 1º Maio 1993. 

Giggia era muito querida entre as primas.  Yolanda diz que ela era bordadeira de ‘mão-cheia’.

Joanin Darin

Irmão mais novo de Tóni & Giggia, tb. era muito querido entre os primos.  Yolanda diz que Joanin era um ‘gozador’ e gostava da pinga tb., embora essa ultima informação não pode ter sido dada por Yolanda, pois Joanin tinha 18 anos (a idade do tio João Darin), quando voltaram para São José.  E pelo que se saiba, era muito difícil esses dois grupos se visitarem devido aos troncos ferroviários de então serem totalmente diferentes.  Os únicos tios que visitaram São José novamente foram o Jácomo, pois seu sogro Dante ainda morava lá, e Valdemar, o caçula, que durante sua fase atlética de corredor-amador visitou a região da Mogiana.

Joanin, digo João Baptista Darin Sobrinho, nascido em 20 Outubro 1911, casou-se com Gertrudes Lucas (não há mais informação que isso) e morreu em 5 Dezembro 1980, em Itobi, com 69 anos. 

E aqui ficam todas as informações que temos sobre esse ramo da familia Darin, que voltou para as origens de São José, tendo tido os laços de amizade desfeitos.

Saint Anthony Chapel on top of the hill that would become Avenida Santo Antonio a few years later. It was 1928, the same year Cia Paulista de Estrada de Ferro arrived with its railways...

Brand-new railway station just built in 1928. 

COELHO Family in Marilia-SP early 1960

back row: standing from left to right: João Egas, Mario Alves, Antonio Coelho, Dulce (Antonio's wife), Alice holding her daughter Maria do Carmo, Arlete (?), Marcolino, Pedro, José Coelho,

2nd row: (sitting down) Ana Coelho Egas with Angela with Junior & Marco: Edwiges Coelho Alves, João Marcolino Coelho, Rosa Quitéria da Conceição, Cristina Coelho, ?,  ... Luzia Coelho with ..., Dulce Roza with Paulo Cesar

front row: Aline, Maria Cristina (Ana Coelho's daughter), Roberto (Antonio's son) Dulcinéia, Celso Silverio & Gabriel Marcolino.

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.

This is a note written by João Amorim, my Father in the 1970s; he took the address of Angelina Corsini's son who lived on Rua Ismael Rodrigues, 221 (Bairro Santo Antonio) in São José do Rio Pardo-SP.