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Ray Spatarella
29 January 1937 – 21 March 1938
Ray Spatarella was born at Brooklyn on 29 January 1937 and died there on 21 March 1938, **aged fourteen months**, and was buried three days later. She was a daughter of James Gennaro Spatarella of Frignano and Amelia Masino, and a younger sister of Angelina, Gina Cacace's grandmother. This archive held her as a name with no dates and nothing else; her death certificate is the only record of her, and it is the record that says she was a girl and a baby.
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Ray Spatarella was born at Brooklyn on 29 January 1937 and died there on 21 March 1938, **aged fourteen months**, and was buried three days later. She was a daughter of James Gennaro Spatarella of Frignano and Amelia Masino, and a younger sister of Angelina, Gina Cacace's grandmother. This archive held her as a name with no dates and nothing else; her death certificate is the only record of her, and it is the record that says she was a girl and a baby.
Born at Brooklyn, New York City, New York Died at Brooklyn, New York City, New York
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's grandparent's sibling (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s grandparent's sibling
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-grandparent's sibling
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
- New York
- Frignano, Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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What the records say
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Spatarella child death record naming Amelia Masino
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New York, New York City Municipal Deaths: father James Spatarella, born Italy; mother Amelia Masino; child Ray Spatarella.
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Death of Ray Spatarella, aged one, Brooklyn, 21 March 1938
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What we still don't know
- What she died of. The certificate carries a cause and the index does not.
- Where she is buried. A burial date of 24 March 1938 is recorded and no cemetery.
- Whether **Ray** is the name as given. For a girl in an Italian Brooklyn family it may be a clerk's rendering of Rae, or of an Italian name — the certificate image would show it.