The Genealogy of Torre le Nocelle, Italy: 1923

Harold was the oldest child of William Anthony Moschella and Alfonsina Ardolino.
We can obtain his birth information from a travel manifest from 1929.

Saturnia Ship Manifest: 1929

Source: Ancestry.com, Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4628; Line: 1 & 2; Page Number: 115. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2015.

Ancestry.com, Year: 1929; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 4628; Line: 1 & 2; Page Number: 115. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2015.

Name: Harold Moschella

Arrival Date: 17 Nov 1929

Birth Date: 4 Aug 1923

Birth Location: Massachusetts

Birth Location Other: Boston, Massachusetts

Age: 6

Gender: Male

Port of Departure: Naples, Italy

Port of Arrival: New York, New York

Ship Name: Saturnia.

His Obituary Reads:

Harold J. "Harry Marshall" Moschella of Medford died Monday, February 23 in New London, CT. Born and raised in Boston's North End, he was a resident of Medford for the past 40 years.Harold was the cherished son of the late William and Alfonsina (Ardellino) Moschella, and the loving uncle of William Moschella of Everett, Joan Huggett of Medford, Joseph Moschella and his wife Jocelyn of New London, CT, Michael Moschella of Medford, Michelle Moschella of Lynn, and Evelyn Brogan of Cambridge. He is also survived by many loving great nieces and nephews.Funeral from the Dello Russo Funeral Home, 306 Main St, Medford on Saturday, February 28 at 10:30AM followed by a funeral mass celebrated in St. Francis Of Assisi Church, 441 Fellsway West, Medford, at 11:30AM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visiting hours Friday, February 27 from 4 - 8PM. Services will conclude with burial at St. Michael Cemetery, Boston.

Source: Ancestry.com, U.S. Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2015.

Source: Obituary of Harold J. Moschella: Boston Herald, Feb. 26, 2015; Copy on file; http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonherald/obituary.aspx?pid=174259108

This obituary had a slight variation from the one above.
Source: Dello Russo Funeral Service(accessed 14 Mar 2015), Obituary of Harold J. Moschella;
http://www.currentobituary.com/ShowObit.aspx?id=153342&member_id=8

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Note: Harry "Marshall" as seen above. There is a Boston birth index from 1923 listing a Harry Hamilton Moschella. Could this be one in the same person?

Erminio Eduardo Alessandro Cassano, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Wellesley, Massachusetts was born in Torre Le Nocelle on 25 Dec 1881, birth record # 67 from 1881. He was the son of Domenico Cassano and Maria Carolina Di Nuzzolo. He was a shoe maker and he developed a new way to make shoes with an all one piece upper. He was able to patent his new invention and over time created several other designs that also were patented. Here is a listing for a 1923 patent.