The S. S. Moravia, a vessel owned and operated by the Hamburg America Line, was built in Glasgow, Scotland on 1883 and launched on its first voyage in November of that same year. Weighing 3,739 gross tons and containing one funnel and two masts, the ship accommodated 100 - 1st class passengers and 1,200 - 2nd class passengers (Norway Heritage, 2017).
On April 15, 1890, the S.S. Moravia sailed from the Ports of Hamburg, Germany and LeHavre, France on its journey to New York City. Included among the names on the ship's manifest were 62 men from the village of Pacentro, all of whom were listed as 'workmen' bound for the "United States of America" (Ancestry.com, 2017). While the men are not identified as being from Pacentro, the manifest provides a column with the heading "The country from which one is a citizen" and a line of '62 dittos' under the word "Italian". Reading the first ten names of this list was the major clue that each of these men emigrated from the village of Pacentro. Then, as I scanned the remaining names, it became unquestionable about their village of origin.
Here is the list of all 62 Pacentrani men aboard the S.S. Moravia with their assigned passenger numbers and ages:
826: Antonio Silvestri (46)
827: Nicola Silvestri (49)
828: Giuseppe Lepore (44)
829: Gennaro Mancini (48)
830: Raffaele Peluso (39)
831: Antonio Silvestri (54)
832: Loreto Battaglini (23)
833: Carlo Carabia (29)
834: Carmine Marchionda (55)
835: Antonio DiMatteo (42)
836: Raffaele Marchionda (24)
837: Carmine DiLisio (15)
838: Antonio Faccia (35)
839: Quintano Caraccia (20)
840: Carmine LaRocca (20)
841: Silvestre Ramunno (35)
842: Carmine Ramunno (38)
843: Franco Nardilli (25)
844: Leopardo Cercone (31)
845: Donato DiLisio (45)
846: Antonio Marsolo (25)
847: Concezio Roncone (36)
848: Rocco Casasanta (29)
849: Antonio Lalama (42)
850: Crescenzo Pompeo (31)
851: Gaetano Taglieri (44)
[Sulmonese name, but he was born in Pacentro, the village of his mother]
852: Teodoro DiNello (34)
853: Antonio Cavicchia (22)
854: Antonio Lalama (21)
855: Pasquale Zavatti (24)
856: Marco Caparso (48)
857: Concezio DeChelllis (23)
858: Federico DiCicco (31)
859: Antonio Giampietro (30)
Originally from Sulmona, he moved to Pacentro in the late 1800's]
860: Concezio Battaglino (32)
861: Franco Marchionda (35)
862: Mariano Rubino (34)
863: Concezio Rubino (44)
864: Saverio Caparso (33)
865: Nicola Cercone (35)
866: Marco Angelilli (25)
867: Giovanni Mancini (36)
868: Pasquale DiLisio (34)
869: Francesco Silvestri (37)
870: Constantino Pompeo (24)
871: Innocenzo Gentile (35)
872: Gaetano Tollis (35)
873: Mario Lalama (29)
874: Raffaele Pompeo (26)
875: Giosue Pompeo (22)
876: Antonio Lalama (37)
877: Carmine Battaglini (42)
878: Pasquale Fronzaglia (37)
879: Michele Cercone (33)
880: Pietro Cercone (26)
881: Gaetano Caparso (34)
882: Michele Ramunno (49)
883: Agostino Cavalcanti (23)
[Not a Pacentrani name, but possibly a foundling. He married
Maria Roncone of Pacentro].
884: Francesco Ramunno (55)
885: Salvatore Silvestri (54)
886: Raffaele Garofalo (27)
887: Gaetano Garofalo (15)
References:
Norway-Heritage. (2017). S/S Moravia, Hamburg America Line. Retrieved from: http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=morav
Ancestry.com. (2017). New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
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