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NEWS & PROJECTS

“The Times” of Campello”

was produced during the years 1999-2003.

If you wish to read these newsletters please follow the links below to read the relevant newsletter in PDF format.

Issue 1 October 1999

Issue 2 July 2000

Issue 3 February 2001

Issue 4 August 2001

Issue 5 February 2002

Issue 6 August 2002

Issue 7 February 2003

Issue 8 December 2003

Deviany/Diviany

Meuse (France) on-line records are being examined to piece together the descent of the 3 Diviani brothers who settled in France in the 19th Century.

Recent contacts:-

Autumn 2009	Meetings in with descendants of Pietro Diviani in Melbourne,Sussex Inlet & Sydney Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.
August 2009	www.genealogywise.com
August 2009	Argentinian family member makes contact. Two Diviani family members are living in Sweden.
July 2009	Diviani One Name Study joins Why not become a fan?
March 2009	Descendant (resident in Australia) of Pietro Diviani (born Campello, baptised Calpiogna, Switzerland, died London, England) visits website & makes contact

Finds

Spring 2010:- Meuse (France) records now on-line. Three brothers Giuseppe, Giacomo and Pierre Diviani (Diviany/Deviany) all born in Switzerland between 1773-1785 marry local women in Fresne-en-Woevre or Deuxnouds- Aux- Bois (France) between 1808 and 1819.

Summer 2009:- Passenger lists for SS Demosthenes "Miss Lily Diviani, shop assistant, age 33" and "Mr John Diviani age 69" departing from UK for Australia on 5 March 1920.

Rossura Parish Registers

from 1661 are currently being transcribed and entered into a new database for the village. Currently there are 2000 entries but the process is very slow as the documents are difficult to read. Rossura is situated between Faido and Calpiogna/Campello and when Fontanedo was abandoned some families moved to Rossura whilst others went to Campello.

When transcription is complete the database will be merged into the main Diviani database and a copy of the transcript lodged with L’Archivio Cantonale, The Comune of Rossura and the Society of Genealogists in London.

There appears to be a derivative of the name of Diviani in Rossura, in the early registers the name is shown as Diviani but then changes to Diani. All incidences of Diani are also being researched and recorded.

This project will complete many families and the descendancy for some of the females of the Diviani and Brentini families who married men from the Rossura parish.