Francois Mélone's father. Born in 1854, he was Italian. He came from the south of Italy, from a region the name of which is Campania. He lived in the interior, at 'Sesto Campano', part which was poor, mountainous and mainly rural. His father's name was Guiseppe Mélone and his mother Appolonia Pio. Both were Italian. Italy was in the middle of a deep move to unification, after several centuries of political chaos. In 1861, the Parliament met in Torino for the first time. He was 7... He was 11 when Florence was chosen as capital in 1865. In 1870, during his 16th year, Rome became the capital of Italy. It was that same year that he left for France with his family who wanted to emigrate to the United States (his father and mother had died). He was the eldest of his siblings and so, 'chief' of orphans, that is to say wage earner in the family. He arrived in France in the middle of the 'war of '70'. France was governed by Napoleon III. He was 16! He stayed in Toulon with his niece Maria, whom he looked after till her marriage. He met his lover, Maria-Concepta Lomiento, an Italian too, at the hospital of Toulon where he was for treatment. 19 years after his arrival in France, at the age of 35, he became dad of a little girl whom he called after his own father: Joséphine. They were living 14 rue Lamalgues, in Toulon, France. He worked as a day worker. He was a lumberjack. Four other children came: Jean, Jeanne, Laurent and Joseph. All of the four died early. He left back for Italy in 1897, at 43. There, he got a son: Louis, then 3 years later, another one: Paul. Four years after his arrival in Italy, he left again his birth village, Sesto Campano. He settled down definitely in Toulon in 1901. He was 47 and his youngest son, Paul, was 1 year old at the most. Four years after his arrival in Toulon, he got a last son: Francois. He was 51 then. He got an attack which left him paralyzed. He died on July 13, 1908 at the hospital at the age of 54. He was leaving behind him a little boy of 3, two boys of 8 and 11, his eldest daughter was 19 and his wife, then 44! He had not to live the difficult periods of WWI and WWII!

Return to Francois and Eglantine's Family Born at Sesto Campano, orphan of father and mother, came to France at the age of 18 on his way to the US, he stopped in France to work (lumberjack) in order to earn money before going on to the US. He had looked after the daughter of his sister, Maria, orphan of father and mother she too and had let her with a wet nurse in Italy. After his marriage with Maria-Concepta, they took Maria with them and brought her up till her marriage. A & MC went back to Sesto Campano in 1897 until 1901.