Immigration Passenger List
for Luca Durante and Annunziata di Lorenzo Durante
I'm not 100% certain that this is our Luca and Annunziata. It doesn't say Annunziata, it says Maria. But it says her maiden name is di Lorenzo.
They are from San Lupo and are about the right age (Maria/Annunziata is 68). They arrived aboard the S.S. Duilio in April of 1928.
We don't know why they traveled from Italy to America, but our Annunziata died in San Lupo on Christmas Eve of 1932 at the age of 72.
That means she was born in 1860, and she would have been 68 in 1928.
On the second page of the manifest, below, we see that Luca and Maria say that their nearest relative in San Lupo was a son named Giulio,
their final destination is Matawan, NJ, they were carrying $25 each, this was their first time in America, and they were going to meet their son Giovanni in Matawan.
Giovanni, or John, was Luca and Annunziata's youngest son who, along with his brother Lorenzo, emigrated to Matawan from San Lupo years before Luca and Annunziata arrived.
Luca was 5 feet 4 inches tall, with brown eyes and grey hair. Maria was 5 feet tall and also had brown eyes and grey hair.
LANZARA-LANZARO FAMILY HISTORY
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