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CERINI Family History, Part II

Lodovico POMI (1887-1912)

121. Lodovico "Louie" Pomi was the first-born son of Annonziatta Cerini and Frank Pomi of Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. He was born in 1887 in Switzerland and immigrated with his mother in 1890. He married Corina Beatrice Soldati, also the daughter of Italian-Swiss immigrants, and had two sons:

1211.	Francis Louis Pomi	16 Oct 1910	13 Feb 1986	(75)
1212.	Ralph Alexander Pomi	29 Dec 1911	12 Dec 1985	(73)

Lodovico emigrated with his mother at the age of 2 by way of Le Havre, France, arriving in New York aboard the La Bretagne on September 29, 1890, and bound for San Francisco.^{[Pass 1890]}

During the 1910 census, the Pomis were living at 101 Upham Street in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. They had only been married for seven months at the time and Corina was likely pregnant with Francis. Louie was working in a grocery store at the time.^{[Cen 1910]}

Two years later, Lodovico "Louie" Pomi died in 1912 at about the age of 25 years. He is buried at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, along with his father and later joined by his mother and brothers.

During the 1920 census, Corina was enumerated living with her remarried mother, Louise (Bianchini Soldati) Bolla, in Petaluma, along with her young boys.^{[Cen 1920]}

By the 1930 census, Corina had remarried to Romildo Mazza, a dairyman born to Italian-Swiss immigrants, whom it appears had previously been married to Corina's sister, Jennie Soldati, and moved in at the Mazza residence along San Antonio Road, just across the county line from Petaluma in northern Marin County.^{[Cen 1930]}

Corina Beatrice (Soldati Pomi) Mazza died on March 29, 1982, in Sonoma County, a week short of her 95th birthday. She had been living in Petaluma at the time.

Henry J. POMI (1892-1985)

122. Henry J. Pomi was born in California on either October 31 or November 1, 1892. He married Theresa Andresen, an immigrant from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany of Danish lineage around 1913 and had three children:

1221.	Albert H. Pomi	20 Jan 1915	10 Feb 1987	(72)
1222.	Annabelle S. Pomi	1917
1223.	Corina Mabel Pomi	1919

After Theresa, Henry Pomi married the widow Lois Bernardine (Shepard) Platz who was born on November 22, 1897, in California.

Henry J. Pomi died in Sonoma County, while living in Rohnert Park, on December 30, 1968, at the age of 76. He is buried with his parents and brothers at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

Henry's widow, Lois Bernardine (Shepard Platz) Pomi died in October 1985 while living in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Candin POMI (1894-1916)

123. Candin/Candido Pomi was born in California in 1894. He died in 1916 at the early age of 22. He was buried at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, along with his father and eldest brother, and was later joined by his mother and next elder brother.

Mabel (POMI BELLON) BADENHOP (1896-1981)

124. Mabel Dorothy Pomi was born in California on February 8, 1896. She married Walter M. Bellon (151), her cousin on their mothers' side, about 1920.^{[Cen 1920,1930]} They lived with Mabel's stepfather, Luca Marci, along Gravenstein Highway, south of Sebastopol in Analy Township, and divorced after 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]}

Mabel adopted Beverly Poggi, who is believed to be the daughter of Sylvia (Yaeger) Poggi of Sebastopol.

1x.

Beverly Poggi

Walter moved to San Francisco, married a nurse named Marguerite, and moved to Lodi. They had two daughters.

Mabel later remarried to Christopher Badenhop, an immigrant from Hanover, Germany, who died in May 15, 1973, while residing in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

Mabel Dorothy (Pomi Bellon) Badenhop died eight years later on August 22, 1981, at the age of 85 while residing in Santa Rosa.

Olga (CERINI) CERINE (1891-1991)

14A. Olga R. Cerini was born in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland on December 5, 1891. She was the illegitimate daughter of Carolina Cerini and a man from Austria, likely an ethnic Italian from the northeast region of Trentino-Alto Adige, then controlled by the Austro-Hungary Empire. She immigrated to America at the age of 16 in 1907. She married Enrico "Henry" Cerine, said to be a third cousin, who had changed the spelling of his name after he immigrated to the United States. Together they had three daughters:

14A1.	Alice Cerine
14A2.	Henrietta Cerine	25 Apr 1921	24 Aug 2006	(85)
14A3.	Maybell Cerine

Olga immigrated to America at the age of 16 from Switzerland via Cherbourg, France aboard the Saint Paul, arriving at Ellis Island on December 15, 1907^{[Pass 1907]}. She rejoined her father, Prisiliano, in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

Olga married Enrico "Henry" Cerine, the immigrant son of Antonio Cerini and Maria Felice, on May 9, 1910, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She was 18 years old, he was 28.

Henry had left his native town of Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, at the age of 17, departing from Le Havre, France, aboard the La Champagne and arriving at Ellis Island on June 4, 1899.^{[Pass 1899]}

By the 1900 census, Henry had taken up residence at Angelo and Mary Bulletti's hotel on Western Avenue in Petaluma, Sonoma County.^{[Cen 1900]} On September 26, 1904, Henry was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in Humboldt County, California.

Soon after they wed, the Cerines moved to Oregon and began a family. They first live at Shaniko, Wasco County, in north-central Oregon. Their first-born, Alice, was later born in Portland, Multnomah County. By 1920 the Cerines moved to Logsden, Lincoln County, in the Coast Range mountains about 90 miles southwest of Portland^{[Cen 1920]}. Henrietta and Maybell were both born in Logsden.

Two years after the Cerines settled in Logsden, Henry's brother Sam is recalled to have stopped by and helped Henry build a barn.

Olga R. (Cerini) Cerine died June 27, 1991, just five months shy of her 100th birthday.

Giulia (BERTELLI) MAGNAGHI (1895-1936)

14B. Giulia "Julia" Bertelli was born in 1895 in Preore, Trentino-Alto Adige, then under the Austro-Hungary Empire and now Italy. She and her family later moved to Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. She immigrated, accompanied by her father, arriving in New York on March 11, 1911. She married August Magnaghi about 1915 and had two children:

14B1.	Roy Ubaldo Magnaghi	29 Mar 1916	12 Jun 1985	(69)
14B2.	Inez Bianca Magnaghi	31 Jul 1920	6 Dec 1945	(25)

Julia immigrated, accompanied by her father who had previously settled in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. They departed Le Havre, France, aboard the La Provence on March 4, 1911, and arrived in New York on March 11. She was naturalized in 1915.^{[Pass 1911, Cen 1920]} At the time of the 1920 census, the Magnaghi family was residing at 101 G Street in San Rafael, Marin County, California, where August worked as a stone cutter at a marble works.

During the 1930 census, children Roy and Inez were enumerated with their maternal aunt Marie (Bertelli) Mazzina in Nicasio Township (Point Reyes Station), Marin County.^{[Cen 1930]} Julia, on the other hand, appears to have been enumerated at 1076 Rhode Island Street in San Francisco where she and August are inexplicably listed as the "Grandi" or "Graudi" family and August's age is off by 10 years. Furthermore, with them was enumerated Julia's nephew, Emil Bertelli, who at that time was a truck driver for August's coal business.

Julia (Bertelli) Magnaghi died in 1936. Her husband, August, died 8 years later on 4 September 1944, in Marin County, California.

Maria (BERTELLI) MAZZINA (1896-1992)

14C. Maria "Mary" Bertelli was born in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland on July 19, 1896. She immigated to America in May 1912^{[Pass 1912, Cen 1930]} and married Alemanno "Mike" Marco Mazzina about 1915^{[Cen 1930]} and had two sons:

14C1.	Guido H. Mazzina	23 Apr 1922	29 Jan 1994	(71)
14C2.	William J. Mazzina	5 Mar 1924	14 Sep 2009	(85)

Maria left her mother in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland, departing Le Havre, France, aboard the S.S. France on May 18, 1912, and arriving in New York on May 25, nearly a year after her father and elder sister emigrated, to join them in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

After Mary and Mike married they lived in Petaluma around the time that their second son was born and afterward moved to Point Reyes Station (Nicasio Township^{[Cen 1930]}), Marin County, where Mike worked for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), which ran 300 miles between the North Bay Area and Arcata on the northern coast of California. While living at Point Reyes Station, Maria's nephew and niece, Roy and Inez Magnaghi, lived with them for a while.^{[Cen 1930]}

The railroad transferred Mike to San Rafael about 1930 and they bought a house on Park Street where the boys grew up and attended San Rafael High School.^{[Obit 2009]}

Alemanno "Mike" Marco Mazzina died on June 20, 1959, in San Francisco County. He was 71 years old.

Maria "Mary" (Bertelli) Mazzina died on September 21, 1992, in Marin County, California. She was 96 years old.

Claudina (BERTELLI) PANDIANI (1898-1935)

14D. Claudina Bertelli was born July 4, 1898, in either Trione, Italy or Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. She emigrated to California and married Mario J. Pandiani of Aveno, Italy in Cotati, Sonoma County, California, in 1921. They had one child:

14D1.

James "Jim" Mario Pandiani

Claudina may have immigrated under the name of "Vittoria" with her brothers Emil and Doro, under the name of "Giovanni" ("John"). They departed Cherbourg, France aboard the Olympic, the first of three sister ships that included the ill-fated Titanic, on June 25, 1920, and arrived at Ellis Island, New York, on July 2. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

Claudina (Bertelli) Pandiani died in San Rafael, Marin County, on January 14, 1935. She was only 36 years old.

Claudina's cousin Hazel (Malugani) Goss recalls that Claudina was one of Aurelia (Cerini) Malugani's favorite nieces--a real sweetheart.

After Claudina's death, 11-year old son Jim is believed to have lived with his maternal aunt Maria (Bertelli) Mazzina.

Mario J. Pandiani died on August 3, 1975, in Marin County at the age of 78 years.

Giacomo BERTELLI (1900-1907)

14E. Giacomo Bertelli was born in 1900 in Switzerland, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, as at least two of his sisters had been. He died at the age of 7 from a fall off a mountain in 1907.

Doro BERTELLI (1905-2000)

14F. Doro Bertelli was born in January 21, 1905, in either Trione, Italy or Switzerland, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, as at least two of his sisters had been. He married Linda Cesio but had no children.

Doro may have immigrated under the name of "Giovanni" ("John") with his brother Emil and sister Claudina, under the name of "Vittoria." They departed Cherbourg, France, aboard the Olympic on June 25, 1920, and arrived at Ellis Island, New York on July 2. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

During the 1930 census, Doro was living with his widower uncle Luca S. Marci along Gravenstein Highway (Highway 116) in Analy Township, Sonoma County, California.

Doro Bertelli died at the age of 95 on June 29, 2000.

Emil BERTELLI (1906-1994)

14G. Emilio "Emil" Bertelli was born on August 31, 1906, in Switzerland, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, as at least two of his sisters had been. He married Laurette Allen and had five children:

14G1.	Daniel Bertelli
14G2.	Carol Bertelli
14G3.	Patricia Bertelli
14G4.	Diane Bertelli
14G5.	Dorthea Bertelli

Emil Bertelli immigrated at the age of 14, departing Cherbourg, France, aboard the Olympic on June 25, 1920, and arriving Ellis Island, New York, on July 2. He was traveling with Vittoria Bertelli*, age 22, and Giovanni*, age 15. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

Emil appears to have been enumerated with his maternal aunt Julia (Bertelli) Magnaghi in the 1930 census of San Francisco where they lived on 1076 Rhode Island Street and Emil worked as a truck driver for a coal dealer. According to this record, Emil immigrated in 1921.

Emil Bertelli died on October 29, 1994, in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County, California. He was 88 years old.

Giuseppina BERTELLI (1909->1986)

14H. Giuseppina "Pina" Bertelli was born in 1909, a twin with Tridolena who died in infancy. By the time Giuseppina was about 11 years old, her older siblings all emigrated to America between about 1907 and 1920. She, her mother, and her younger brother stayed behind in Giumaglio.

Giuseppina's grandnephew Dell visited her in Giumaglio in 1986. She lived in a facility there and worked in the kitchen. A Bertelli relative (nephew?), who showed Dell the sites of Giumaglio, noted that she was "always happy."

Giacomo BERTELLI (1911-1985)

14J. Giacomo "Giacomino" Bertelli was born in 1911, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, as at least two of his sisters had been. He was likely named after an older brother, who died in childhood before his birth, and was called "Giacomino" ("Jimmy"). All of his older siblings, except Giuseppina and his mother, emigrated to America between about 1907 and 1920.

Giacomo married Angelica Zapella, but they had no children.

Angelica Zapella died in 1979 at about the age of 72 and is buried in Giumaglio.

Giacomo Bertelli died in 1985 at about the age of 74 and is buried with Angelica in Giumagalio.

Walter M. BELLON (1893-1969)

151. Walter M. Bellon was born on May 5, 1893, in Pennsylvania. He moved to Analy township, Sonoma County, California, and married his cousin, Mabel Dorothy Pomi (124) around 1920.^{[Cen 1920,1930]} They lived with Mabel's stepfather, Luca Marci, along Gravenstein Highway, south of Sebastopol in Analy Township, and divorced some time after 1930.^{[Cen 1930]}

Walter moved to San Francisco where he married a nurse named Marguerite and moved to Lodi. They had two daughters:

15x.	Susan/Shirley Bellon
15x.	Corrine Bellon

Walter M. Bellon died in on May 7, 1969, in Alameda County, California, just two days after his 76th birthday. He had been residing in Lodi, San Joaquin County, California, at the time of his death.

Albert POMI (1915-1989)

1321. Albert Pomi was born January 20, 1915. He probably married Florence Virginia Weeks.

Albert Pomi died on February 10, 1987, at the age of 72 years, when he was living in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Florence Virginia (Weeks) Pomi died two years later on June 27, 1989, in San Luis Obispo County. She was two weeks shy of her 71st birthday.