Z1205/012

Retired Italian mother of Italian male brick worker b. 29.10.1912 SIDE A - (00 mins) Family life in Faeto, Foggia province, southern Italy. Temporary emigration of father to America. Agricultural work in southern Italy. - (5 mins) Mother helping father in the fields. Childcare by older children. - (10 mins) Brothers emigrating to America. Elementary education. - (15 mins) Starting agricultural work at 10 years. - (20 mins) Meeting husband to be. Attending church. - (25 mins) Courting - (32 mins) END OF SIDE A SIDE B - (00 mins) Pressure to get married. Husband leaving to fight in war for Italy. Became prisoner of war. - (5 mins) Husband's return, disabled, after war. Didn't recognise children. - (10 mins) Visits to adult children in England. Death of husband. - (15 mins) Reluctant migration to live with family in England. - (20 mins) Pilgrimage to Yugoslavia. Dying in England & burial in Italy. - (25 mins) Children leaving home. Grandchildren being more English than Italian. - (32 mins) (End of Interview) Original interview 60 mins

9 May 2001

From: 1910 To: 2001

Italian translated into English.

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CHILDREN, MIGRATION, , burial grounds, , World War Two, brick worker, Italians, immigration, prisoners of war, deaths, emigration, Faeto, Yugoslavia, Italy