VINCOLO surname project:

Project Background

BACKGROUND
My name is Gary VanCola.
My Grandfather's name is Pietro Vincolo.
My grandfather was a "Foundling".

That's what they called an Orphan in Italy, specifically Sicily when he was born on July 21,1896.

Never looking back when He was 17, he and his (future brother-in-law) buddy came to America in 1913 looking ahead for the American Dream.

Now, I'm looking back for my Grandfather's family. Only thing is, there aren't any Vincolo's in Sicily and I can't find that there ever were, other than a little boy having grown up in an orphanage and hired out to help tend goats and deliver milk at 10 year old.

What I did find was some very kind and gracious Vincolo's, living today in Salerno, Italy. Actually, I only found 15 Vincolo's in all of Italy from Top To Toe. The "Salerno" Vincolo's informed me of something quite interesting. Their Grandfather Lorenzo Vincolo, born Aug.11,1888: was a "Foundling". Lorenzo as a boy somehow was told he had some brothers somewhere, but never found them.

Switch to America today. With only 2 Vincolos discovered, both deceased but one of the widows had been told by her father-in-law, he: Robert Vincolo, Sr., born Sept. 27, 1904 (You guessed it - a "Foundling") was brought to the USA as an infant.

"Back to Italy & back over here through Ellis Island".
Only 2 Vincolo's pop-up, my Grandfather at age 17 in 1913 and a 47 year old gentleman, who was 33 the year My Grandfather was born and abandoned.
This man had made numerous trips back and forth from Italy, without any spouse, over those years visiting his brother-in-law, according to the ship's manifest!
In 1906 and 1908 and again in 1910 "visiting his Brother-in-law: Antonio Greco in Brooklyn, NY."

He always left from the Port of Naples, the port closest to his home town of Valva, near Salerno. May be coincidence, may be circumstance, but this guy might be a Romeo or Johnny Appleseed or just a travel'in man and his name was "Carmine Vincolo" in 1910,
but he was "Carmelo Vincolo" when he left the Port of Bordeaux, France Apr.28, 1888,
and that's where our search starts and maybe even ends for 3 Orphaned Foundlings.

There were a few other Vincolo families that had emigrated here in the late 1800s and early 1900s but they all seemed to have been large established families with lots of children.

The following Surnames have entered the United States over the decades back to the 1800s and though, by accident or design, these names changed along the way and many of them if not all on those ship's manifest records were originally spelled "VINCOLO",
as well as on many future US Census Records."

e.g. Now: Angelo Vincola
Was: [Angelo Vincolo] "clearly visible on the document"

e.g. Now: Raymond Vincols
Was: [Raymond Vincolo] "clearly visible on the document"

e.g. Now: Joe Vincalo
Was: [Joe Vincolo] "clearly visible on the document"