After a while I turned on the computer, to try out Mozilla's Firefox web browser recently installed, and went to Vitalsearch... I decided to look and see what was new, and found the marriage section pretty large, especially for Los Angeles county. First I tried to find a marriage date for Rocky and Lucy. They're indexed by Bride, alphabetically as best they could, so I searched 10 scanned pages of 1947... no Lucy... 42 pages in 1946... no Lucy... 10 pages of 1948... still no Lucy. Maybe they married in another county? Did they go to Vegas?
Not about to leave empty-handed, I looked for Frances Lambert Fragassi, just in case she remarried. I began searching 8 pages from 1939, on 'their' page 328 I found:
1939 - Oct 24
LAMBERT, FRANCES E to Harold J Thome or Thorne
recorded in book 1628, page 262
LAMBERT, FRANCES E to Harold J Thome or Thorne
recorded in book 1628, page 262
I'm not a hundred percent sure this is our Frances, but seeing as it's about a month after our Frances' husband died, it could be... and it certainly could be the reason her son wrote her off. So to be fair, I looked for any Fragassi... nope. I'll follow this lead later, to see if this was the name she died with...
So then I thought I'd take a look around the time between 1909 when Michele came back to the US and 1918 when Angelina was born... The first reasonably searchable bit was 1916 - 1918 Los Angeles County Brides, 4 pages to search. On the first page I found:
Now THAT one I'd really like to see. It may have parents' names and better dates and places... maybe even witnesses... I'm going to order that one soon. Haven't gotten any of the other certificates I ordered, yet.
April 24th the certificates arrived... Frances Lambert, 18 years old, white, single, first marriage, born in Mexico to Quandos Lambert (born in France) and C. Lambert (?) also born in France! (This being a legal document drawn up by adults with their wits about them, one would hope this was more accurate than the censuses who said because Frances was born in Mexico her parents must be Mexican... Verrrry interesting... And Michele Fragassi, 26 years old, white, single, first marriage, born in Italy, occupation : Gardener, father Rocco Fragassi of Bitritto, Italy and Angela Binetti of Bitritto, Italy... Witnessed by L. J. Gutierrez of 627 Alpine Street, married by Edward H. Fitzgerald, a priest, at 167 West 36th Place, LA.
(thankfully the certificate arrived and this was not our Frances!)
So then I thought I'd take a look around the time between 1909 when Michele came back to the US and 1918 when Angelina was born... The first reasonably searchable bit was 1916 - 1918 Los Angeles County Brides, 4 pages to search. On the first page I found:
1916 - Nov 13
LAMBERT, FRANCES to MICHELE FRAGASSI
Clerk file 5471, Book 268, page 59
LAMBERT, FRANCES to MICHELE FRAGASSI
Clerk file 5471, Book 268, page 59
Now THAT one I'd really like to see. It may have parents' names and better dates and places... maybe even witnesses... I'm going to order that one soon. Haven't gotten any of the other certificates I ordered, yet.
April 24th the certificates arrived... Frances Lambert, 18 years old, white, single, first marriage, born in Mexico to Quandos Lambert (born in France) and C. Lambert (?) also born in France! (This being a legal document drawn up by adults with their wits about them, one would hope this was more accurate than the censuses who said because Frances was born in Mexico her parents must be Mexican... Verrrry interesting... And Michele Fragassi, 26 years old, white, single, first marriage, born in Italy, occupation : Gardener, father Rocco Fragassi of Bitritto, Italy and Angela Binetti of Bitritto, Italy... Witnessed by L. J. Gutierrez of 627 Alpine Street, married by Edward H. Fitzgerald, a priest, at 167 West 36th Place, LA.
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