Explore the journeys of San Cassiano’s emigrants, tracing their paths across continents and documenting their new lives abroad.
Journeys Across Continents.
The story of San Cassiano is not confined within its borders but spans across oceans and continents through the journeys of its emigrants. From the early 19th century to the present day, individuals born in San Cassiano have ventured far and wide, seeking new opportunities and forging new lives abroad.
Explore. We are compiling an overview of emigrants from San Cassiano, detailing their journeys and destinations. Whether they settled permanently abroad or returned to Italy later in life, these individuals have left an indelible mark on the global diaspora of our village.
Note. You will find many emigrants in our database. However, there is no way to tell whether they emigrated unless you study each person’s profile. The purpose of this page is, therefore, to make an additional register to better find and follow each emigrant’s journey.
Contribute. If you have information, photographs, or personal stories related to the emigrants from San Cassiano, we encourage you to contribute. Your contributions help us piece together the journeys and experiences of our global community. Visit our Contribute page to learn more about how you can submit your contributions or contact us with your findings.
Explore unique emigration patterns through this interactive map featuring pins representing the villages and towns connected to San Cassiano. Each pin marks locations that native people from San Cassiano are known to have emigrated to.
Learn more: What are we working with?
Passenger lists: All passengers onboard ships to the United States, Canada and the UK were listed in passenger lists available online. This is a particularly unique passenger list with nine (!) men from San Cassiano who travelled to the United States in 1907, including Giovanni Menchini, Stefano Bastiani, Domenico Fabbri, Alessio Lucchesi, Nicodemo Menchini, Ugo Menchini, Giuseppe Lucchesi, Iacopo Bastiani and Astolfo Bastiani (see Astolfo Bastiani’s passport application above, including a photo). All men travelled to Cleveland, Ohio to Francesco and Giovanni Bastiani, who were registered as friends of the group.
Emigration cards: For those who emigrated to Brazil, we can find useful information in emigration cards obtained from the Brazilian consulate in Livorno and Firenze. This is the emigration card from Raffaello Lucchesi (1893-?), who emigrated to Brazil in 1947. Raffaello was born in Livizzano, San Cassiano, and it is unknown what happened with Raffaello once he reached Brazil.
Census records: Censuses were typically conducted every 5 or 10 years, depending on the country. Through these records, we can learn about the lives of those who emigrated. In this record from Winnipeg, Canada from 1916, we find Amabile Menchini (1879-?) with two young daughters, one of whom was named Assunta Menchini / Graceffo (1914-1999). Amabile first arrived in Winnipeg in 1907, where she joined a larger group of emigrants from San Cassiano to run a restaurant and deli run by two Fabbri brothers from San Cassiano in downtown Winnipeg.
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