Giuseppe Camozzi Family Tree

The Giuseppe Camozzi Family Tree

The Giuseppe Camozzi Family Tree came from a 100 miles north of the city of Bergamo in the ancient village of Druogno, close to the Italian Swiss border. Druogno (altitude 835 m.) is the first center encountered while traveling on the state road that extends from Italy to Switzerland.  Four such Italian groups to the Netherlands (chimney sweeps, mosaic workers, makers of plaster figures and ice-cream vendors) demonstrated how the demand of their trades have shaped their social histories. The Camozzi’s were one of those families.

Giovanni Battista Camozzi was born in 1826 in Como, Italy. He married Maria Margherita Vietti who was born in 1835 at Druogno Italy and they settled in Druogno Italy. Giovanni worked as a coppersmith and at some point he worked his trade in Amsterdam, Holland. They had 6 children in the following order, Pietro, Giuseppe Emanual, a daughter Giovanina, Eugenio Antonio, a second daughter Lucìa and Severino Jacomo Antonio. Giovanni died in Druogno in 1900 and Maria died in 1921. Two of the sons immigrated to Canada and United States Giuseppe Emanual and Severino Jacomo Antonio. These are the two sons that I have done research on and have dedicated a page to each of them on this web site.

Giuseppe Camozzi was born March 27, 1864 at in Druogno, Italy. Giuseppe worked as a bartender on a boat travelling to the East Indies and South America. Then he returned to Holland and immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. He worked for a while as a Foreman on the Northern Pacific Railway. Giuseppe paid his future wife Carmina Veltri, fare from Italy to the United States so they could be married. She was born June 25, 1874 in Calabria, Italy and they wed in 1892 in Spokane Washington. They had eight children born in the U.S. in the town of Priest River, Idaho where they homesteaded on an 80 acre farm.

The 1900 US Census list Giuseppe Camozzi and family lines 79 to 84. It lists Guiseppe as a Farmer his year of birth as 1864, immigration as 1885 and was married in 1893. Some time before he moved his family to Canada in 1906, he came up to Canada and worked at the Nanaimo Coal Mine and the Hedley Mine. Guiseppe also worked in the Sandon Mine in the Kootenays. Around this time, Guiseppe took out his Canadian naturalization papers. Then he moved his family to Revelstoke, BC where he went to work for the C.P.R. He worked on the Rogers Pass in 1910, when 66 people were killed in the dreadful Rogers Pass Slide. The Camozzi family lived in the area of the Gallicano Bakery when they first came to Revelstoke and later bought a home on the corner of Fourth and Edward Street.

In the 1911 Canadian Census lines 23 to 31 it list Giuseppe Camozzi as Railroad Helper and his year of birth listed as 1864. Then in 1917 he moved his family south to Mt. Cartier to the 80-acre farm that was granted to his father-in-law Fransico Veltri in 1905.

Carmina’s parents, Fransico and Josephine Veltri (Nacarrato), arrived in Revelstoke from Italy in 1898, coming into this area by boat, up the Arrow lakes. They lived for a short, time in town and then purchased the land in 1905 in the Mt. Cartier area, where they built their farm house and cleared the land. This was about 7 miles south of Revelstoke. With only a wagon trail to get to town, supplies often came down by the old Arrowhead train.

Giuseppe Camozzi and his family farmed there until 1952. The farm house that Guisseppe built was later moved up to the town of Revelstoke before the building of the Mica Dam and the settlement of Mount Cartier was flooded. While living in Mount Cartier Guisseppe worked at Three Valley as a road foreman for the Department of Highways.

After immigrating to Canada 5 more children were born, and in 1935 Carmina had a stroke and was moved to Revelstoke. She died in their former home on Fourth and Edward Street at the age of 75 April 26, 1949. The farm was turned over to their daughter Margueita as she looked after it with her father Guiseppe along with her husband Basilio. Guisseppe died in Vernon March 13, 1956.

 

 

Giuseppe Camozzi and Carmina’s children – Giuseppe Camozzi Family Tree

• John Batista Camozzi who was Born September 14 1894 in Priest River, Idaho, USA and he died October 20, 1967 in Trail BC. He married Rosa Frances Micielli in 1919. She died in 1948 at Rossland BC at the age of 45. John and Rosa had 4 children, Walter who died in 2000, Donald who died in 2009, Leonard who died in 2002 and Carmelita that died in 2007.
• Peter Paul Camozzi who was born December 4^th 1895 in Priest River, Idaho. He died August 11, 1949 in Revelstoke, BC. He married Victoria Mary Collia in Revelstoke BC July 5^th 1931. She died in Revelstoke in 1999 at the age of 88. Children of Peter and Victoria are, Barry and Yvonne.
• Alexander Chester Camozzi was born on December 15, 1896 in Priest River, Idaho. He died June 2, 1978 in Kelowna BC. He was married twice. His first married was to Marie Melenie Marty on February 1, 1921 in Kelowna BC. Marie died June 2, 1958 in Prince George BC at the age of 59. Alexander’s second marriage was to Leonie Mary Lambert around 1960 and she died December 25^th 1967 in Kelowna at the age of 59. Alexander and Marie had one son, Joseph Oliver who died in 1966.
• Marguerite Lucia Camozzi was born February 15, 1899 in Priest River, Idaho and died September 11, 1985 in Coquitlam BC. She was also married twice. First Margueita was married to Basilio Rebelato, January 16, 1916 in Revelstoke BC, due to her age, she had to get her father, Guisseppe’s written permission to wed. Basillio died December 29, 1957. Then a few years later around 1959 she married Secondo Salvatore Faoro. Secondo died December 29, 1977 in Burnaby BC. Margueita had 3 children with Basilio, they were Leo Peter who died in 1997, Eva Rita who died in 2002 and Ernest Basilio. There was also one son that was born and died in 1918.
• Thomas Moore Camozzi was born January 1900 in Priest River, Idaho. Thomas died around 1946 in Revelstoke BC. He was never married and had no children.
• Charles Emanual Camozzi was born March 27, 1902 in Priest River, Idaho. Charles died on June 24, 1987 in Revelstoke BC. Charles married a Alberta Mable Johnson and she died November 29, 1976 in Cranbrook, BC at the age of 65. They also had no children.
• Richard Eugene Camozzi was born December 9^th 1903 in Priest River, Idaho and died March 20^th 1980 in Revelstoke, BC. Richard was married November 4^th 1927 to Francis Graham Hay in Vancouver BC. Francis died April 11, 1976 in Vernon BC at the age of 67. Richard and Francis had 5 children, Lorne, Richard, Gerald who died in 1967, Agnes and David who died 1940 at the age of 3.
• Sylvester Sabastian Camozzi, the last child to be born in Priest River, Idaho . He was born on January of 1906 and died in Powell River BC on August 15^th 1989. Sylvester married a Vivian Louise Gardner September 9^th 1931. Vivian died May 28^th 1985 in Powell River, BC. Sylvester and Vivian had one daughter Murial and a son that died at birth.
• Victor Enrico Camozzi, the first child that was born in Revelstoke BC, August 27, 1908 and he also died in Revelstoke, BC January the 14^th 1997. Victor married Mary Hryniw (Renu) in 1937. Mary died December 6^th 1998 in Maple Ridge BC. Victor and Mary had 5 children altogether. Alice Marie who died in 1948 at the age of 10, Arnold who died in 1975, then Donald, Barbara and Sylvia.
• Elizabeth Assunta Camozzi was born May 24^th 1910 in Revelstoke BC and died in 1997 in Vancouver BC. She was married to Laughlan MacDonald November 4^th 1933 in Revelstoke, BC. Laughlan died in 1954 at the age of 47. Elizabeth went on to marry Lloyd Gaunce and he died in the early 1990’s. Elizabeth and Laughlan had two daughters, Marjorie Joan who died around 2002 and Patricia Nadine Ellen.
• Florence Antonetta Camozzi was born November 15^th 1912 in Revelstoke BC and died in about 1993. Florence was married 3 times to a Roy Vigue, Ted Parker and Russell Johnson. Florence had one child with Roy Vigue, Elaine.
• Frederick Theodore Camozzi was born June 23^rd 1914 in Revelstoke BC and died in around 1997. Frederick was married to a Mary Stuart. Frederick and Mary had one son Bruce who died in 2002 and Mary had a daughter Beverly.
• Arthur George Camozzi was born September 9^th 1919 in Revelstoke, BC and died in Vancouver BC on march the 14^th 2010. Arthur married in 1952 to a Dorothy Antonio Amatto. Dorothy died July 28^th 2007 in Burnaby BC at the age of 77. Children of Arthur and Dorothy are, Arthur, Rosemarie, Robert and Judy.

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