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Giovanni Urga (1864-) 
son of Francesco Urga & Maria Carmela Marone

Best wishes to all in this time of the Covid-19 epidemic.

I am pleased to report that I have discovered some new information on Giovanni Antonio Urga, son of Francesco Urga and Maria Carmela Marone, and half-brother of Vito Maria Sarli and Rocco Vincenzo Sarli.

Egidiantonio Sarli died in 1860 in Laurenzana. In 1862, his widow Maria Carmela Marone married the widower Francesco Urga. In 1864, Giovanni Urga was born. He married Mariantonia Laraja in 1892, but she died a year later in 1893. There were no children from that union.

I always wondered what happened to Giovanni after that. Today, I discovered that he married again. On April 15, 1894, He married Palma Antonia Donata D'Elisi of Anzi, a village 5 miles from Laurenzana. Her parents were Rocco D'Elisi and Maria Caterina Santomassimo.

Children born to this union:
1- Salvatore Urga born 1 Feb 1895, Laurenzana (born dead)
2- Carmela Urga born 2 Feb 1896, Laurenzana; died 10 Feb 1896, Laurenzana
3- Rocco Urga born 4 Apr 1900, Laurenzana; died 2 July 1901, Laurenzana
4- Rocco Urga born 28 Oct 1902, Laurenzana; died 12 Oct 1903, Laurenzana
5- Maria Carmela Urga born 29 Nov 1904, Laurenzana; died 4 Dec 1904  
6- Rocco Salvatore Urga born 17 May 1906, Laurenzana
    married Rosa Renna 25 Sep 1926, Laurenzana
7- Rocco Carmelo Urga born 11 July 1909, Laurenzana; died 29 July 1910, Laurenzana

I have searched the records through 1910. So far I have found 7 children. Only one, Rocco Salvatore Urga, lived to marry. He married Rosa Renna on September 25, 1926, in Laurenzana.