From Amalfi to Crewe - A Criscuolo Diaspora

The next official record we find of the Criscuolo family at St Pancras is the entry of Antonio on the crew manifest for the Majestic in 1926...

By the time Pasquale's and Pasqualina's son Nicola (my great grandfather) was born on 21 December 1875 the rebellion was over. In t...

By the time Pasquale and Pasqualina celebrated the birth of their first child, Luigi, on 17 August 1865, their world had been turned upside ...

By the time Garibaldi landed at Marsala with his 1,000 on 11 May 1860 with Royal Navy and Piedmontese navy ships protecting his landing to p...

The principal source (actually, it's the only source) for the story I am about to relate is a book published in 1904 called "La Pri...

... and the place was the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The Spanish Bourbon King Ferdinand II was on the throne and, on the whole, life wa...

I have almost finished reading Pino Aprile's 'Terroni' (2010 Edizioni Piemme, Milan) and it forces me to completely re-evaluate ...

I have just bought a book by a gentleman called Pino Aprile called 'Terroni'. It is a history of southern Italy - what used to be t...

Since I last spoke in October last year, I've made the mistake of starting to read a brilliant book called 'The Force of Destiny - ...

... or simply Marco Criscuolo? We went back to Amalfi this year. Flew out from Liverpool on Friday the 25th of September and back on Monday...

... do birds suddenly appear, every time I am near ... . No. I know the answer to that one. The question I don't know the answer to - o...

What a banal question. An inane question even. They're not necessarily banal or inane for the obvious politically correct reasons altho...

Of course, this all raises the question whether it matters, and if it does, why it matters. Why should I care whether I am categorized as E...

For the last 36 years I've expended a good deal of time and energy trying to keep the promise I made to grampa and 10 years ago, when I...

The last time I saw him Luigi Matteo Antonio Criscuolo didn't look very well but I couldn't be sure that he was ill. He'd alway...

This is the first time I've logged on for a good while. Over a month. I'm not sure why but it seems to me that it's because the...

In October 2003, we were back again. Just the three of us and we were staying in a bed & breakfast just outside Amalfi in Castiglione d...

In August 2002 we were back. Me, the missus and the kid (and one of his mates) was back in Amalfi. This time though we'd decided that w...

In the spring of 2001, dad phoned me, said that he, and his cousin Bob, were thinking of going over to Amalfi in September and asked me if ...

Most of the rest of that holiday was spent going to and fro' from Amalfi to Pontone with one trip out to Capri. You can see why Tiberiu...

Our trip to Pompeii was an organized trip. We spent the whole day following an ageing gentleman called Lorenzo around the city while he hel...

Before the first week of our holidays had passed, I had managed to fulfil another of my long-standing ambitions. Since I was in my early te...

The next day we got the bus up to Pontone to Maria's for lunch ... and dinner. I think we must have got the quarter past 10 and arrived...

On the second day in Amalfi (it must have been a Sunday), I plucked up the courage, and we decided to walk up the scalinata to Pontone. It...