Pezzati Siblings 1924

Mary, Albert and Peter Pezzati on January 7, 1924 Dorchester. This photograph was taken by my grandmother Josephine V. Pezzati.

Peter S. Pezzati sketch of his mother Cesarina - 1930s.

My great grandmother Cesarina (Opizzi) Pezzati sketched by her son Peter S. Pezzati in the 1930s. (Photograph taken by Robert Harrington of Robert Harrington Studios, CT)

Bruno Ferroli on the day of his marriage February 19, 1928.

Mary T. (Pezzati) Rotolo and Family

Mary T. (Pezzati) Rotolo circa 1943 with her husband "Pete" and daughter Carla. Mary at one time worked as a journalist and newspaper editor.

Sisto A. Pezzati

 

Sisto Alfonso Pezzati (1867-1915) was the Pezzati family partiarch in the United States. This photograph was likely to have been taken around the time of his wedding in May 1898. Two days after he married Cesarina Opizzi on May 2, 1898 in Momeliano the newlyweds boarded a steamer for the United States. They settled in Boston, Massachusetts and would have a total of eight children with only half living to adulthood.

Albert Theodore Pezzati (1912-1973)

Albert T. Pezzati was the youngest of the eight children of Sisto and Cesarina Pezzati. He was born in Allston, Massachusetts on July 23, 1912.

He served in World War II and was attached to OSS. After the war he became Secretary-Treasurer of the Mine, Mill and Smelters Union.

Albert married twice and had four children. In his later years he moved to Florence, Italy with his family. He died on June 23, 1973 and is buried in Florence at the Cimitero Evangelico deli Allori.

Find A Grave Memorial

Josephine V. Ferroli Archives

What is the Josephine V. Ferroli Archives? Simple. It is the life time collections of Josephine Victoria (Pezzati) Ferroli. Josephine was the daughter of Italian immigrants Sisto and Cesarina (Opizzi) Pezzati who immigrated to Boston in 1898.

Josephine was born on January 30, 1906 in Boston and in 1927 married Italian immigrant Bruno Ferroli. They had two daughters Patricia and Janet.

Josephine throughout her life had a strong belief in family. She collected and saved the family photographs, books, letters and family papers. She kept the memory of her parents and her ancestry alive through her stories and genealogical research. She preserved her childhood memories and stories of her brothers and sisters in hours of video and audio recordings.

Now all her years of work and preservation is being safe guarded and cataloged. Some of that information will be published here from time to time. Including information on the Pezzati, Opizzi, Ferroli, Repetti and Borre families. Short biographies and histories of family members and photographs will be posted in time.

Josephine's unpublished autobiography, Angels Watching Over Me, detailing her family and early years growing up in Boston in the early 1900s is hoped to be published one day.