52 Ancestors - Week 2...Maria Eufrosina Pineschi Petrini

This is week 2 of my 52 Ancestors in 2017 challenge. You can read more about the challenge here.
This week I am highlighting my great-great grandmother, Maria Eufrosina Pineschi Petrini.
(I need to mention here that even though I am listing my great-great granmother as Maria Eufrosina Pineschi Petrini, she never used the name Petrini as part of her name. In Italy it was common at the time, as it is today, for women to use their birthname for their entire life. I only include her husband's surname here to make it more likely that other researchers will recognize her as part of the PETRINI family.)

Eufrosina Pineshci
Photo from the collection of AM Bain
digitized by KM Kolk - 2016

 

Maria Anna Eufrosina Pineschi was the daughter of Massimiliano PINESCHI and Isabella MATTEUCCI, born and baptized on March 11, 1850 in Compito Sant’ Andrea, Capannori, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. The birth date comes from a family tree prepared by her great-granddaughter Irene in the early 1970s. The year 1850 correlates well with the age given on Eufrosina’s marriage and death  records. I've not been able to confirm the day of birth, however it was common at that time for babies to be baptized the day of their birth. The death certificate of her oldest son Umberto states that his mother’s name was Rosena (with surname unknown). It took me more time than it should have to realize that Rosena was a shortened form of Eufrosina.

Eufrosina was a farmer and housewife in Compito Sant’ Andrea, where she probably lived her entire life. She married Bartolomeo Daniele Petrini on July 19, 1873 in Sant’ Andrea. She was the mother of at least ten children:

1. Roberto aka Umberto Alberto (1873-1953)
2. Giovanni Egisto (1876- )
3. Maria Enrichetta (1876- )
4. Maria Argentina Dina Annita (1881-)
5. Maria Armida Argentina (1883-1971)
6. Maria Amabilia (1885-1926)
7. Giovanni Alessandro (1887-1979)
8. Maria (1892-1892) (634)
9. Gemma
10. Armando

Eufrosina died at age 75 on July 13, 1925 in Sant’ Andrea, Capannori, Lucca, Italy, just a few months after her husband, Bartolomeo Petrini. Her burial site is unknown.

Questions for further research:

1. What is the exact date of Eufrosina's birth?
2. Where is Eufrosina buried?
3. Is her godmother related to our family?
   

You can view the family group sheet for the family of Bartolomeo and Eufrosina here.

 

Sources

• PETRINI, Umberto, “Death Certificate,” File #40992, St. Louis City, Missouri, 7 Nov 1953, Missouri State Archives, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/, accessed 5 Mar 2007.
• “PETRINI Family Tree,” Irene Petrini Wichmann , Apr 1973, updated 27 July 2002.
• PETRINI, Roberto, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 18 Aug 1873, Family Search, familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32553-2775-86?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-468:349802601,350153701,350154001, accessed 11 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Giovanni Alessandro, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 12 May 1887, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99W7-KVJY?wc=MCR6-4WL%3A349802601%2C350153701%2C350154701&cc=2043811, 11 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Maria Amabilia, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 5 Mar 1885, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32569-21023-28?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-4WL:349802601,350153701,350154701, 28 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Maria, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 19 Jul 1892, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32562-6908-70?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-429:349802601,350153701,350155101, 31 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Maria Argentina Dina Annita, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 8 Mar 1881, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32554-15865-32?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-4M9:349802601,350153701,350154501, accessed 31 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Giovanni Egisto, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 28 Jan 1876, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32558-15676-36?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-438:349802601,350153701,350154201, 31 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Maria Enrirchetta, “Birth Record,” Lucca, Italy, 28 Jan 1876, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32558-15456-33?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-438:349802601,350153701,350154201 : accessed 31 March 2015, accessed 31 Mar 2015.
• PINESHCI, Eufrosina, “Death Record,” Capannori, Lucca, Italy, 14 Jul 1925, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32572-17087-72?cc=2043811&wc=MCR6-2WL:349802601,350153701,350168401, 30 Mar 2015.
• PETRINI, Bartolomeo - PINESCHI, Eufrosina, “Marriage Record,” Lucca, Italy, 19 Jul 1873, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32571-9416-63?cc=2043811, accessed 15 Feb 2016.
• PETRINI, Bartolomeo - PINESCHI, Eufrosina, “Marriage Allegati,” Lucca, Italy, 19 Jul 1873, Family Search, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32580-11502-19?cc=2043811, accessed 30 Oct 2016.