Alaria's and Copper Mining - 1907

The Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Michigan




We knew from oral history that the Alaria family at some point in time had moved from the Illinois coal mining communities to Michigan where they worked in the copper mines. But it took finding a passenger listing for my great-grandfather "Pietro Allaria" to pinpoint the exact location in Michigan and to establish that the move took place some time in between 1900 and 1907.

The 1907 passenger list for the French ship, the LaTouraine, lists Pietro as a "non immigrant alien" returning to his home at Box 19, Hancock, Michigan. Traveling with him is his sister's son and daughter-in-law (Maria and Massimo Allaria) and another niece, Angela Giulio. Two other passengers are of interest, one being Francesco Milano who was going to join her brother Giuseppe at Box 19, Hancock, Michigan. The other passenger of interest was Domenica Rogis-?oila who was going to join her husband, Giovanni, at Box 306 Hancock. That makes at least six people on the ship who appear to be traveling together. Pietro also named his place of birth as San Giorgio Canavese, Italy.

This document also establishes that Pietro had at least one sister living back in Italy because he named her as his nearest relative in the country he just left and she was living in the same place that he listed as his birth home---San Giorgio Canavese in Torino Province, Piedmont Region. (This is the same province and region as where the Riva side of the family comes from.) J. Riva © 2008



Medieval Castle at San Giorgio Canavese


Side one of the passenger list, click to enlarge.



Side two of the list.



Reference:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Pietro Allaria
Search Ship Database: View the La Touraine in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Departure: Havre
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Nativity: Italy
Line: 7
Microfilm Serial: T715
Microfilm Roll: T715_1015
Birth Location: Italy
Birth Location Other: s giorgio
Page Number: 182

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