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My G-G-mother Rosa Gattorna came from the little town Gattorna which belongs to Moconesi.
Her mother, my G-G-G-mother, was a Casagrande. She probably came also from Gattorna /
Moconesi. The family story told that the name Casagrande comes from "orphange",
so that we cannot find ancestors from this line anymore.
Rosa Gattorna was probably a very good musician, but I do not have further information.
She emigrated to Hamburg (Germany) and never to the States. But possibly relatives from
her. Now you wrote that somebody of the Sinatra-family was called also Casagrande may
be from a local orphanage in the suurrounding of Genoa? If you know more, please write.
Thanks a lot. Rosemarie Brieger