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Frederick Cacace
This entry is about Frederick Cacace (Born about 1930; death not recorded). For other family members with the same first and family name, see Frederick Cacace, Frederick Cacace.
Born about 1930; death not recorded
Frederick Cacace was born in Brooklyn about 1930, the only recorded child of Carmine Cacace of Naples and Ruth Noga. On census day 1950 he was twenty, unmarried, and working a forty-hour week as a **helper for a television company** — a trade that had barely existed five years earlier. He married **Angelina Spatarella**, and the census sheet that records his job explains how they met: **the Spatarella family was enumerated on the very same page**, a few lines below his own. Angelina was nineteen and clerking in a tailor's shop; her father James was a tailor in a mending company. The two households were neighbours in Brooklyn, and the Cacace and Spatarella lines join in the next line of the census.
Proved by a record
Frederick Cacace was born in Brooklyn about 1930, the only recorded child of Carmine Cacace of Naples and Ruth Noga. On census day 1950 he was twenty, unmarried, and working a forty-hour week as a **helper for a television company** — a trade that had barely existed five years earlier. He married **Angelina Spatarella**, and the census sheet that records his job explains how they met: **the Spatarella family was enumerated on the very same page**, a few lines below his own. Angelina was nineteen and clerking in a tailor's shop; her father James was a tailor in a mending company. The two households were neighbours in Brooklyn, and the Cacace and Spatarella lines join in the next line of the census.
Born at Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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
- Miholani Cacace
- Catherine Cacace
- Frederick Cacace (this person)
Spouse
Children
See this family in the family treeWork and occupation
- helper, television company — 1950
[RECORD] 40 — Helper — Television Co.
- Helper, television company
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
- Naples, Campania, Italy
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Timeline
Carmine's son in Brooklyn
[RECORD] Age 20, never married, born New York. The census directly identifies Carmine as father; Ruth as mother remains an inference from household structure. [1]
Proved by a record
Aged twenty, a television helper in Brooklyn
ED 24-1062, sheet 73. Carmine 49 a painting contractor, Ruth 41 an operator at a bag company, and Frederick 20 a helper at a television company. The Spatarella household — James a tailor, Amelia, and their children Angelina 19, Esther 16 and Bobby 7 — is on the same sheet.
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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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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
Carmine Cacace 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.
- [CONFLICT, MINOR] The 1940 census makes him **12**, so born about 1928, where this archive carries about 1930 from the 1950 census, which made him 20. Two years. His birth record would settle it. The same sheet also gives him two sisters this archive did not have.
- His exact birth date and his death. Neither is recorded; a New York birth record of about 1930 and a Social Security entry would give both.
- His marriage to Angelina Spatarella is undated. Given both were still single and at home in April 1950, it falls after that.
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] Carmine Cacace household, 1940 census, Brooklyn Assembly District 8Back to citation 4