[TI] Question

[Rosalie]

Phil
There was the same thing in our family.  I don't have a clue why they sent 
children to others.  As I think about it, my grandmother was very sick and 
died very young.  Had, as the story goes, 19 children.

My father's sister Mary lived with her sister Teresa.  Teresa married a 
doctor also.  We were in Cleveland, Ohio and the two sisters were in 
Brooklyn, New York.  Wondered about it but they didn't speak about it at 
all.
Rosalie Amison

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From: "Pwb Bova" <pwbova at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Termini Imerese" <TerminiImerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:25 PM
Subject: [TI] Question


>
> Hi Everyone,
>
>     We have survived the great snow of 2008.  It was bad
> here in Ohio.
>     My grandmother came here in 1914 with her mother and
> five sisters (Martinos').  My grandmother lived in Toledo,
> with her husband and three children, but the other sisters
> were in the Boston/Providence area.  My question revolves
> around the fact that both my aunt and uncle stayed with an
> aunt in Providence for extended periods of time.  My
> stepmother thought it was terrible to send children to stay
> for a year or more with someone else.   She is not Italian
> and never knew my grandmother. My father is gone along with
> everyone else so there is no one to ask.  There was no
> apparent economical problem for my grandmother but she sent
> her children to live periods of their teenage lives with
> her sister in Providence.  Her sister was very well off
> having married a Doctor but she had three children of her
> own.  Is this unusual or was it a custom?
>
> Phil Bova
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