The Quilietti Family

ROSA BRATTISANI 1871-1929 the daughter of Giuseppe Brattisani and Lucia Coffrini.

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Rose Brattisani  married

Rosa’s death

Thank you Angela Giulianotti, grandaughter of Rosa and Giulio for helping Helen build this webpage.  It is meant only as a tribute to their lives  and as a gesture of love from her.  Angela has also forwarded some brilliant family photos which will be included as soon as we find out who is who.  You can see them on the Giulianotti unknown pages

ROSA BRATTISANI GIULIANOTTI

Rosa was the second child of  Giuseppe Brattisani and Lucia Coffrini.  Giuseppe and Lucia were from the Region of Borgo Val  di Taro in Emilia Romanga in  Northern Italy.  They married in Parma on 1st April 1864.

Rosa was born in Paris in 1871.  She had SIX   sisters and two brothers, both of who died in infancy.

• Valentina was born in 1870
• Lucy was born in 1872
• Mary was born in 1878
• Minni was born in 1885
• Louise and Julia in 1889
• Louie was born in 1898 but died in 1903.
• Domonique was born in 1884 and died in 1897

Rosa’s father Joe was a successful businessman and moved his family between cities.  They settled in Edinburgh circa 1885 but as the births of their children tell us they moved between Paris, Edinburgh and Parma for many years.

At the time Valentina and Rosa were  born in beautiful Paris in France there was great battles in the City born out of France being beaten in the French/Prussian War.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune The French Revolution was soon to follow.  The war driven streets of Paris must surely have contributed in the family moving from there to beautiful Edinburgh.

As Roman Catholics the family would have been frequent visitors to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh which was a hub for the Italian community.  It was here at this Cathedral that Rosa and Giulio would have been introduced.  This meeting would certainly flourish into romance and they married there in 1892.

Giulio was described as a Restaurant Keeper, as was Joseph Brattisani his new father-in-law.   Witnesses were John Fusco and Mary Brattisani, Rosa’s sister,  who were to marry soon thereafter

Even after Rosa and Giulio moved North to Aberdeen Giulio remained close with his brother-in-law and it was he who was at Emilio’s side when he died in 1898.

Rose and Giulio settled with their young family  in Church Street, Aberdeen where they continued to expand the Brattisani business ventures in fish-and-chips, confectionery and ice-cream.

Rosa and Giulio frequently returned to their homeland and to their village of Borga Val di Toro from where their respective families both originated.

Rosa and Giulio enjoyed a prosperous and  affluent lifestyle and their frequent visits back home would endorse this fact.  Rosa had ‘servants’ who helped her look after her children.

They had eleven children, but lost many of them as infants, and three from bronchitis.

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• GIUSEPPE [Joe] was born on 29th November 1894.  He married Susan Anderson Lamb on 5th April 1918 at St. Margaret’s in Loanhead,  At this time Joe was in the army and served as a Private No. 30560 in the 3rd Batallion of the Royal Scots.  He was serving in  Mulligan in Ireland at the time of their wedding.  Susan  who was born in 1899 lived in Roslin.  Her father was a coalminer.  Joe died on 30th September 1968 in Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen.  He was 74 years old and the longest living of Rosa’s children.  They had two sons, Albert and Freddie.  Bert still lives in Bedford in England. With thanks to Bob Munro for helping sort out this information – see comment below

Giulio’s father was Joseph [Giuseppe] Giulianotti.   His mother was Rose Zanrae.  Giulio was born in the year 1864 in Borgo Val da Taro in Emilia Romania in Italy.     In 1892 at the time of their marriage at St. Mary’s R.C. Church in Edinburgh

ADUARDO EMILIO GIULIANOTTI  born 17th January 1899 at 5 Broad Street, Aberdeen

GIULIETTA EMILIA was born on 26th January 1897 at 1 Longaere in Aberdeen.  She married into the Alizapiedi family but tragically died in dundee on 3rd May 1920 age only 23 years.  She died of Pheumonia due to the Flu

GIUSEPENA GIULIANOTTI was born in 1900.  She died of bronchitis in 1903

VITORIO GIOVACCHINO BARTOLOLEMO  GIULIANOTTI was born on 9th August 1901 at 2 Castle Terrace, Aberdeen.  Victor as he became known never married.  He died on 19th October 1948 in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary of a celebrial Haemorrhage.

ENRICO OTTAVIO GIULIANOTTI

was born on 7th October 1903 at 2 Castle Street, Aberdeen.  Enrico ran a fish and chip shop in Aberdeen.   On 29th November he married Isabella Finnie Milne who worked in the Flax Mill in the city.   They married in St. Peter’s R.C. Church in Aberdeen.    They  had a son Raymond Joseph Giulianotti.   Raymond’s son David has been in touch with us [see comment below]   Enrico or Rico as he was affectionately known moved down to London with his family.  He worked in the Savoy Hotel where he played the Saxaphone and the Piano.

VALENTINA LUCIA GIULIANOTTI was born in 1905 and named after Valentina Brattisani Quilietti and Valentina’s mother Lucia Coffrini who had both died earlier in this same year.  The baby Valentina died aged only 3 months.

ALFONSO FREDERICO GIULIANOTTI was born on 15th March 1907 at 5 Justice Street in Aberdeen.  He died in 1910.

GIULIO FRANCESCO GIULIANOTTI was born on  14th June 1908 at 5 Justice Street, Aberdeen

ANTONIO GIULIANOTTI

is the father of  Angela who is helping me with this webpage.  Antonio was born on 12th November 1915.  After the death of his parents Antonio joined the army.  He left Scotland and headed for London where he married and brought up his family. They lived in the Colinsdale area of London.     He died when he was 54 years  old London, England.

Giulio Giulianotti and Rosa Brattisani worked hard and in the 1901 Scottish Census the family are listed as living at their address of 58 Bread Street.   Giulio was the head of the family and was a Confectioner by now.   It seems from the census form that everyone in that address of 58 Broad Street were his employees and listed as Confectioners’ salespersons, and also as servants.   There were fourteen employees listed all from Italy with surnames Signorini, Orezzi, Barbareri, Casiseli, Busuni, Barbieri, Barzoni, Castelote, Ostacchine and Ferari.  They are all from Italy . The building itself is listed as having seven windows.

The 1911 Cencus shows us that the family have now moved to 5 Justice Street in North Aberdeen.   This census tells us that they had been married for 18 years and that they have had 10 children of whom only 5 survive.

• JULIO GIULIANOTTI, Head age 45, Confectioner, own business
• ROSA GIULIANOTTI, wife, age  37,
• JOSEPH GIULIANOTTI, son, age 16,Assistant Shopkeeper Confectioner,
• EDWARD GIULIANOTTI, son, age 12, school
• VICTOR GIULIANOTTI, son, age 9, school
• ENRICO GIULIANOTTI, son age 7, school
• ROSA CACCIOLA, servant, age 58,
• ANNIE CORRIERA, boarder, age 55, Carpet upholsterer
• DOMENICO GIULIANOTTI, boarder, age 38, restaurant owner
• BENEDETTO SANTO, boarder, age 78
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The children of Rose and Giulio remained close and mourned the deaths of their mother Rosa in 1929.  Giulio distraught with the death of his beloved Rosa died soon thereafter

of a broken heart.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ve3VjM933w&feature=related

The brothers Joe, Vittorio and Eduardo all died with heart disease at the end of the 1950s.    Antonio followed in the year 1974.