Joe,

Salve Signor Capecchi!

Roughly 10 years ago we had brief contact via email. I have since had a look at your website and it has most definitely evolved.

 

I’ve since asked questions and this is how the Capecchi family arrived in Australia.

 

Great Grandfather Oreste Capecchi

Born 1880s Bordo Cappuccio Livorno, Toscana

-departs port of Livorno Italy to resettle in Cairo Egypt (boom after Suez Canal opening).

-repatriates to Italy with 5 of his 6 children during the fascist period 1930s

:Denora Capecchi

:Tosca Capecchi

:Orlando Capecchi

:tba

:tba

Deceased 1950s Gastro rupture

 

Grandfather Silvio Capecchi

1900s is born in Cairo as an Italian national

-married Rosa Seisun (Maltese National - British Empire) who gave birth to 2 children who survived infancy

:incarcerated in an Allied Sahara desert concentration camp for duration of WWII.

:left Egypt under his wife's British Passport at outbreak of Egyptian nationalist revolution 1952, destination Imperial Territory of Australia.

Deceased 1985 Arthritic related

 

My father Leopoldo Baldassare Oreste Capecchi

May 1929 is born in Cairo as an Italian national

-was spared from incarceration in WWII under mother's nationality as he was a minor

-1949 set sail for Livorno where he was repatriated and eventually conscripted (unaware) into Army and then on to Navy whereby he remained for 8 years, thereafter reunited with his family in Australia.

-five offspring Mark, Christine, Catherine, Elizabeth and myself Robert.

Deceased 1990 Diabetes related

 

I am very happy to see our name proliferating in other parts of the world.

 

My website is www.capecchi.id.au my email is robert@capecch.id.au I would be most pleased to hear from other Capecchis.

 

-Posso leggere italiano se tu vuoi scrivame in italiano (ma non perfettamente)

 

Parliamo piu tardi.

Robert