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CARACCIOLO Cipriano Approx. date:1845 From the private collection of, John CARACCIOLI, New York, NY
Names given: Cipriano aka: surname: CARACCIOLO Birth 1 date: Saturday, 18 February 1785 place: Morsiglia/Mucchieta, Corsica Christening 1 age: 1 day place: Church of Saint Cipriano Marriage date: 14 November 1819 age: 34 years place: New York (?) Death 6 date: Sunday, 24 December 1848, 5:20 age: 63 years, 9 months, 24 days place: Woodbridge, New Jersey Burial date: place: Church affliation: Catholic Education: Occupation: (Corsica) sailor, privateersman in the French Navy; (New York) fruiter, confectionary store owner; (New Jersey) farm owner. Sources/Documents: 1. Cipriano Caracciolo, birth certificate no.--- (1785), Archives Departementales, Bastia, Corsica, France
submitted by John CARACCIOLI, New York, NY 2.Cipriano Caraccioli household, 1820 U.S. census, New York City, New York, sheet 221A, line 3; National Archives micropublication M33, roll 77, page 237. This 1820 census for the Caraccioli household is listed under Cyprian Carichola. The census indicates that there were three individuals living in the household; 2 "free white males 26 and under 40," and 1 "free white female from 16 years and under 20."It shows that there was a person engage in manufacturing at this address as well as an individual who was not naturalized. (Click here to view the original 1820 census) 3. Cipriano Caraccioli household, 1830 U.S. census, New York City, New York, page 465, line 1; National Archives micropublication M19, roll 96. In 1830, Cipriano continued to live in New York. The original census is rather faint, but you can still make out Cipriano's name. (Click here to view the original 1830 census 4.Cipriano Caraccioli household, 1840 U.S. census, New York City, New York, page 241, line 30; National Archives micropublication M704, roll 300. (Click here to view the original 1840 census 5. Cipriano Caraccioli will (1849), Middlesex County Surrogate Office, Woodbridge, New Jersey. 6. Family data, Cipriano Caraccioli Family Bible; original owned by Barbara McNamara. Believed to have belonged originally to the Gordon Family, inherited by Mariah (Gordon) Caraccioli, to Mariah & Cipriano's daughter Caroline Caraccioli, to her nephew Louis Napoleon Caraccioli, to his daughter Mabel (Caraccioli) Perkins, to her sister-in-law Mary (Sheridan) Caraccioli, to her daughter Barbara (Caraccioli) McNamara. Directories: 1822: Caraccioli, Cipriano, fruiter, 125 Fly-market. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1822...(New York: New York) 109. 1823-24: Caraccioli, Cypriano, confectioner, 456 Broadway. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1823-24...(New York: New York) 110. 1824-25: Caraccioli, Cypriano, confection, 456 Broadway. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1824-25...(New York: New York) 110. 1825-26: Caraccioli, Cypriano, confection, 456 Broadway. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1825-26...(New York: New York) 109. 1827-28: Caraccioli, Cypriano, confection, 456 Broadway. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1827-28...(New York: New York) 116. 1830-31: Caraccioli, Cipriano, confection, 321 Broadway & 42 Bower. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1830-31...(New York: New York) 170. 1831-32: Caraccioli, Cipriano, confection, 220 B.way & 42 Bowery. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1831-32...(New York: New York) 174. 1832: Caraccioli, Cipriano, confect. 222 &321 B.way h. 214 Fulton Thomas Longworth New York City Directory for 1832...(New York: New York) 191. 1833: Caraccioli, Cipriano, conf. 220 1/2 Broadway h. 65 Duane. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1833...(New York: New York) 165. 1835-6: Caraccioli, Cipriano, conf. 220 1/2 Broadway h. 65 Duane. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1835-6...(New York: New York) 144. 1837: Caraccioli, Cipriano, 220 1/2 Broadway J. Disturnell Directory, New York City, Confectioners entry for 1837...(New York: New York) 481. 1838-9: Caraccioli, Cipriano, conf. 220 1/2 Broadway h. 65 Duane. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1838-9...(New York: New York) 141. 1839-40: Caraccioli, Cipriano, conf. 220 1/2 Broadway h. 65 Duane. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1839-40...(New York: New York) 146. 1840: Caraccioli, Cipriano, 395 Broadway Blair HB and Company Directory, New York City, Confectioners entry for 1840...(New York: New York) 98. 1841: Caraccioli, Cipriano, confectioner, 395 Broadway. John Doggett Directory, Including New York, Albany and Troy, for 1841...entry for Confectioners (New York: John Doggett, Jr. Publisher and Proprietor) 42. 1841-42: Caraccioli, Cipriano, confectioner. 395 Broadway. Thomas Longworth New York City Directory, for 1841-42...(New York: New York) 153. Notes: Cipriano left NYC sometime in late 1839, or 1840, and died in 1848. In Corsica he was a sailor, his son Peter wrote that his father was known as a Privateersman for the French Navy. The story is that he sailed here on his own ship and took up residence in lower Manhattan, he is first listed in the 1821 Longworth's directory as a Fruiter at 125 Fly Market, he then had a confectionary store at 456 Broadway from 1823-1829 in 1830 he moved to 321 Broadway and he opened a second store at 42 Bowery. From 1831 to about 1840 he had a store at 220 or 222 Broadway (which was the building that later became the PT Barnum Museum) as well as having a store at 321 Broadway. His home address was first at 214 Fulton Street and then from 1833 to about 1842, 65 Duane Street. During this whole time he was buying land in Woodbridge and building a home there. He also became a citizen of the USA on April 14th 1829 in the Marine Court of the City of New York. {Information contributed by John Caraccioli, New York, NY.}