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Angelina Spatarella
This entry is about Angelina Spatarella (Born about 1931; death not recorded). For other family members with the same first and family name, see Angelina Spatarella (1879 – 1951).
Born about 1931; death not recorded
Angelina Spatarella was born in Brooklyn about 1931, a daughter of James Gennaro Spatarella of Frignano and Amelia Masino. At nineteen she was clerking in a tailor's shop — forty-five hours a week — while her father worked as a tailor in a mending company. She married **Frederick Cacace**, and the 1950 census shows how near at hand he was: **his family was enumerated on the same sheet as hers**, in the same Brooklyn district. She is the join between the Spatarella and Cacace lines.
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Angelina Spatarella was born in Brooklyn about 1931, a daughter of James Gennaro Spatarella of Frignano and Amelia Masino. At nineteen she was clerking in a tailor's shop — forty-five hours a week — while her father worked as a tailor in a mending company. She married **Frederick Cacace**, and the 1950 census shows how near at hand he was: **his family was enumerated on the same sheet as hers**, in the same Brooklyn district. She is the join between the Spatarella and Cacace lines.
Born at Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Recorded as: Cacace
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's grandparent (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s grandparent
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-grandparent
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Kevin Leahey’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
Life
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Family
Parents
Siblings · birth order
- Frank T. Spatarella
- Angelina Spatarella (this person)
- Nicholas Spatarella
- Esther Spatarella
- Ray Spatarella
- Robert Spatarella
- James Spatarella
Spouse
Children
See this family in the family treeWork and occupation
- clerk, tailor shop — 1950
[RECORD] 45 — Clerk — Tailor Shop.
- Clerk, tailor's shop
Where they lived
- 1950: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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Places listed on this page
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
- New Jersey
- New York
- Queens, New York City, New York
- Frignano, Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy
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Timeline
James's daughter in Brooklyn
[RECORD] Age 19, never married, born New York. The census directly identifies James as father. [1]
Proved by a record
Aged nineteen, a clerk in Brooklyn
ED 24-1062, sheet 73, in her father's household — and on the same page as the Cacace family she would marry into.
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What the records say
3 of 4 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
1950 census, Brooklyn ED 24-1062, sheet 73
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Proved by a record
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
[RECORD] STATE New York | COUNTY Kings | Brooklyn | E.D. No. 24-1062 | Sheet Number 73 | DATE SHEET STARTED April 6 1950 | Cacace Carmine — head — M — 49 — mar — N.Y. | 35 — Painter — Contractor | Ruth — wife — F — 41 — mar — N.Y. | 40 — Operator — Bag Co. | Frederick — Son — M — 20 — nev — N.Y. | 40 — Helper — Television Co. | Spatarella James — head — M — 48 — mar — Italy | yes | Tailor — Mending Co. | Amelia — wife — F — 37 — mar — N.Y. | Angelina — Daughter — F — 19 — nev — N.Y. | 45 — Clerk — Tailor Shop | Esther — Daughter — F — 16 — nev — N.Y. | Bobby — Son — M — 7 — nev — N.Y.
Record exhibit
Family-supplied correction to Fitzgerald and Cacace branch structure
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Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
[COMPILED] SANTANGELO is on the FITZGERALD side, not the Cacace side. Frank Santangelo married Maureen Ann Fitzgerald, the site owner's mother's sister. | SPATARELLA is on the Cacace side, correctly: Angelina Spatarella married Frederick Cacace
Record exhibit
Cacace branch search-scope correction
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Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
[NEGATIVE] This is the first burial location known for Gina's family, and it relocates that branch's centre of gravity to Long Island, not New Jersey — which is why a New Jersey-scoped search returned nothing. Future Cacace searching should target Suffolk and Queens, not Hudson County.
Record exhibit
James Spatarella household, 1940 census, Brooklyn Assembly District 8
A census is a government list of the people who were living in a home.
Partly proved
Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
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Historical context
These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.
What we still don't know
- [THEY WERE NEIGHBOURS AS CHILDREN] In the 1940 census the **Spatarellas were in Brooklyn Assembly District 8, Enumeration District 24-883**, and the **Cacaces in the same Assembly District 8, Enumeration District 24-887** — tracts 125 and 131, a few streets apart. **Angelina Spatarella was nine and Frederick Cacace twelve**, and they would marry and become Gina Cacace's grandparents. Two enumeration districts is a short walk, not a coincidence to be marvelled at in a Brooklyn Italian neighbourhood — but it is the answer to how they met, and it is the closest this archive has come to catching two of its families before they joined.
- Dates, places, occupations and relationships imported from the 1 August 2026 Geni export require verification against original records.
- [INFERENCE] Amelia is a strong mother candidate because she is James's wife in the household, but the census relationship field is only to James.
References
- [1] 1950 census, Brooklyn ED 24-1062, sheet 73Back to citation 1a Back to citation 1b Back to citation 1c
- [2] Family-supplied correction to Fitzgerald and Cacace branch structureBack to citation 2
- [3] Cacace branch search-scope correctionBack to citation 3
- [4] James Spatarella household, 1940 census, Brooklyn Assembly District 8Back to citation 4