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Nicola Cacace
Dates not recorded
Nicola Cacace is named as the father of Carmine Cacace on Carmine's 1927 Brooklyn marriage record, alongside Caterina Picone. Nothing else about them is recorded, and they may never have left Italy — their son gave his birthplace as Naples and the family's comune is not yet known. **The route to them is Carmine's naturalisation petition, certificate 142652**, which names the exact town he was born in and would give the Italian civil registers something to search.
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Nicola Cacace is named as the father of Carmine Cacace on Carmine's 1927 Brooklyn marriage record, alongside Caterina Picone. Nothing else about them is recorded, and they may never have left Italy — their son gave his birthplace as Naples and the family's comune is not yet known. **The route to them is Carmine's naturalisation petition, certificate 142652**, which names the exact town he was born in and would give the Italian civil registers something to search.
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s great-great-grandparent
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-great-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.
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- New York City, New York
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
- Naples, Campania, Italy
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Carmine Cacace and Ruth Noga marriage, Brooklyn, 28 February 1927
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New York, New York City Marriage Records: Carmine Cacace, 24, father Nicola, mother Caterina Picone; married Ruth Noga, 17, on 28 February 1927 at Brooklyn. Also on the record: John Noga and Florence Meyer. Source details 3044.
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Carmine Cacace household, 1940 census, Brooklyn Assembly District 8
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What we still don't know
- Nicola is known only as a name on his son's marriage record. Carmine's naturalization petition file (certificate 142652, Eastern District of New York, 21 October 1927) should give the exact Italian birthplace and arrival details, which would identify the comune whose civil registers hold Nicola's own marriage and his children's births. Those registers are free on Antenati.
- His grandson's household in 1940 contains a **Catherine**, and the eldest girl's mangled name may be **Nicolina** — Italian families named the first daughter for the paternal grandmother and often a child for the grandfather. That is a custom, not a record, but it is consistent with him and Caterina Picone being who the 1927 marriage says they are.
- [LEAD, UNTESTED] A **Nicola Cacace and Caterina Picone** appear in the civil registers of **Lipari, in the Messina province of Sicily**, losing two infant daughters both named Luisa, in 1888 and 1889. The pairing of those two names is not common. Against it, Carmine was born at Naples in 1901, which is a different region — though families moved. It is written down because it is the only other Nicola-and-Caterina couple found, and because it would be tested by Carmine's own birth record.