Ciscomani family
Tomás Ciscomani Cecco
1899-1978 · Zoppola, Italy · Hermosillo, Mexico
Biography
Older brother of Herminio, born Tomaso Antonio Cismaconi in Zoppola on 19 January 1899. At 15 he sailed with his father from Naples to New York in September 1913 and stayed in California: he registered for the First World War draft in Fresno County, and in 1920 his brother Erminio came to join him in Nichols. In Sonora he was Herminio's partner in the Hacienda Friuli; he bought land in Hermosillo with money Herminio sent from San Francisco and farmed at Siete Cerros through the 1920s to 1940s.
On 13 April 1929 he married Catalina Valenzuela, daughter of Abraham Valenzuela and Josefa Álvarez, before the civil registrar of Hermosillo, and the 1930 census lists him in the city. In 1932 and 1934 he stood beside his brother when Herminio registered the deaths of two small children. In 1952 he crossed into Arizona at Nogales, giving Zoppola, Italy, as his birthplace. He died in Hermosillo on 8 February 1978, aged 79, recorded as a farmer of Mexican nationality, and Catalina survived him.
Facts
- Born
- 19 January 1899, in Zoppola, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
- Died
- 8 February 1978, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
- Also written as
- Tomas Ciscomani, Tomás Ciscomani, Tomaso Antonio Cismaconi, Tommaso Ciscomani
- Parents
- Giovanni Cismaconi (1869-1951), Luigia Cecco (1874-1952)
- Spouses
- Maria Catalina Valenzuela Alvarez (1907-?)
- Children
- Héctor Ciscomani (1936-1937), José Francisco Tomás Ciscomani Valenzuela (1932-1987), Maria Evelia Ciscomani Valenzuela (1937-1991)
- Siblings
- Herminio Ciscomani Cecco (1902-1973), Francisco Ciscomani, Giovana Ciscomani
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Sources
Juan Antonio Ruibal Corella, Personajes de la Ciudad (Hermosillo street-name biographies), Universidad Unilider epub, file dated 2018-02-03. Chapter 'Calle Herminio Ciscomani', which states that biographical data and photograph were supplied by his son a living relative. Original print edition and date not identified.
Transcribed 1945 press item 'Proyectan perforar una serie de pozos en siete cerros': the first well 'esta perforandose en el Rancho del senor Herminio Ciscomani por cuenta de el y de los senores Tomas Ciscomani, Valentin Cecco y Alberto Giotonini'. Original newspaper not named on the page. Related chapter: https://www.historiadehermosillo.com/htdocs/HHILLO/CAP08.htm
Ignacio Lagarda Lagarda, La Chicharra, 8 Jan 2019. Names Herminio and Tomas Ciscomani among well partners and says the lottery chose Herminio's field near Siete Cerros, named El Fundador.
Ruibal Corella, Juan Antonio. Personajes de la Ciudad. Hermosillo, c. 2010-2011 (e-book edition Universidad Unilider, 2018). Entry on Herminio Ciscomani; biographical data and photograph supplied by his son a living relative.
Master's thesis, Facultad de Historia, Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Culiacan, Feb 2020. Uses notarial records (AGES, Fondo Notarias). Mentions Hacienda Friuli (Tomas and Herminio Ciscomani, Miguel Fabbris, Valentin Cecco), the 2 Sep 1925 habilitacion contract, 'Erminio Ciscomani' in 1930s contracts, and the 1919-1920 Italian colonization letters. Cites Alfredo Noriega Leon, Cien anos de la costa de Hermosillo, Editorial Garabatos, 2010, p. 13.
Transcribed on historiadehermosillo.com. First well being drilled at the Rancho of Herminio Ciscomani for himself, Tomas Ciscomani, Valentin Cecco and Alberto Giotonini; driller Jorge Morgan.
Transcribed on historiadehermosillo.com; newspaper name not shown on the page. Visit of 10 Nov 1949 to the fields of Tomas Ciscomani and Herminio Ciscomani.
Book: Martinez de Castro, Ma. Belen N. de. Hermosillo de mis recuerdos. Hermosillo: Casa de la Cultura de Hermosillo / Instituto de Cultura Superior de Sonora, 1994. 170 p. LCCN 95217950 (no digital edition found). Not to be confused with a later, unrelated book of the same title by Jesus Alberto Pérez Najera. Read here only second-hand: Facebook post by Martin Huva ("tras la historia de Hermosillo"), 18 Aug 2023, quoting the book. Says Tomas and Herminio Ciscomani, from Zoppola, arrived in 1922 from Los Angeles, California, bought land on the Costa de Hermosillo, and that Herminio's field gave its name to the first pumped well, "Fundador". The post's two images have no captions.
Registri dello stato civile di Zoppola (Udine), Nati 1899, act 12, registered 21 January 1899 (FamilySearch film 008622761, image 1056). Giovanni Cismaconi, son of the late Tomaso, 30, farmer, declares the birth of a boy named Tomaso Antonio at 10 p.m. on the 19th, to his wife Luigia Cecco. Margin: Cismaconi Tomaso Antonio.
NARA T715, roll 2174, lines 9 and 10; both manifest pages viewed on FamilySearch. Giovanni Ciscomani, 44, married, laborer, wife Cecco Luigia in Zoppola; with him his son Tommaso, 15, laborer, mother in Zoppola. Giovanni paid his own passage, carried 60 dollars and had been in the United States before, 1908 to 1911, in California; both were going to their friend Angelo Querin in Tulare, California.
FamilySearch index of NARA M1509: Tomaso Ciscomani, born 19 January 1899, citizen of Italy, registered in Fresno County, 1917-1918. Index read; the card image was not viewed.
NARA T715, roll 2729, line 20; both manifest pages viewed on FamilySearch. Erminio Ciscomani, 17, single, mechanic, Italian (North), from Zoppola, Udine; nearest relative his father Giovanni Ciscomani, Zoppola; passage paid by his father; 25 dollars; going to join his brother Tomaso Ciscomani in Nichols, California, intending to stay 10 years; 5 ft 2 in, chestnut hair, born in Zoppola.
FamilySearch index: Tomas Ciscomani, born 1899 in Italy, living in Hermosillo. Index read; the census image was not viewed.
Registro Civil de Hermosillo, marriages 1929, p. 96, act 63, 13 April 1929; a second index entry for the same couple (act 64, p. 98) is at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG9K-F3TV. Groom Tomás Ciscomani, son of Juan Ciscomani and Luisa Cecco; bride Catalina Valenzuela, daughter of Abraham Valenzuela and Josefa Álvarez. FamilySearch index read; the image was not viewed.
Civil registry of Villa de Seris, municipality of Hermosillo, deaths 1932, act 30, pp. 26-27 (FamilySearch DGS 004886316, item 2, image 17; image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95VK-9DHY). Recorded at 11 a.m. on 26 August 1932, when Herminio Ciscomani, 30, married, farmer, native of Italy, living at Siete Cerros, brought the health office's permit to move the body of his son from Hermosillo for burial in the Villa de Seris cemetery. The entry copies the Hermosillo death act: Mario Silvio Ciscomani, 14 months, died at 7 a.m. that day at Calle Hidalgo 32, of enterocolitis, son of the declarant and of Dolores Félix de Ciscomani (the index reads 'Dolores Toledo'); witnesses Manuel E. Ruiz and Tomás Ciscomani. Tomás Ciscomani also witnessed the burial.
Registro Civil de Hermosillo, deaths April-June 1934, act 279 (FamilySearch DGS 004886296, item 5, image 28; image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-95KM-SQR). At 2:20 p.m. on 15 May 1934 Herminio Ciscomani declared that the girl María Armida Ciscomani, one year and six months old, had died at noon that day at home on Calle Chihuahua, of gastroenteritis. First witness Tomás Ciscomani, 35, farmer, of Calle Matamoros 17, who declares himself her uncle; second witness a farmer of 38 whose signature appears to read Carlos Baranzini, one of the Costa farmers named in the 1945 well story. Burial in the municipal cemetery of Villa de Seris. The mother is not named.
Registro Civil de Hermosillo, deaths 1978-1979, act 230, p. 231 (FamilySearch image group 'Hermosillo. Death Records 1978-1979', item 1, image 122). Registered at 10:45 on 8 February 1978 by a son surnamed Ciscomani Valenzuela: Tomás Ciscomani Cecco (indexed as 'Ceno'), of Mexican nationality, 79, married, farmer, died at 5:15 a.m. that day in Hermosillo of respiratory arrest. Wife: Catalina Valenzuela de Ciscomani. Burial in a municipal cemetery of Hermosillo.
User-contributed tree, read while signed in. Gives his wife as María Catalina Valenzuela Álvarez (1907-deceased) and four children: José Francisco Tomás (1932-1987), María Evelia (1937-1991, died in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City; husband Flavio Perezgasga Tovar), Yolanda Catalina (deceased, Mexico City) and Josefina (deceased, Hermosillo). Its birthplace for Tomás (Modica, Sicily) is wrong: the Zoppola birth act of 1899 and his 1952 border records show he was born in Zoppola.
Border Crossings from Mexico to the United States, card dated 3 April 1952: Tomas Ciscomani-Cecco, born 1899 in 'Ioppola' (Zoppola), Italian, with Catalina Valenzuela de C. Also the Nogales, Arizona alien arrivals index, 1952: Tomas Ciscomani Cicco, 53, born in Zoppola, Italy (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WFKZ-GCMM). Indexes read; images not viewed.