Sheet number 62 

D.CARLO BELLINI.

He owns three rooms of a house, two above and one below, in the quarter near to S. Rocco, with another lower room used as a stable in the quarter of the Fossi. It borders with the little country house of Rosario Bellini, Andrea Porreca, Carlo Fica, Nicola Bellini and widow Domenica del Duca.

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ACT of BAPTISM

of Vincenzo Bellini, grandfather of the Great Composer,
which exists in the Parish records.

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 Year of our Lord 1744 – but (on) the fourteenth day of the month of May.[18] I the undersigned baptised the infant born on the twelfth day of this same month, son of the married couple Rosario Bellini and Francisca Mancini his wife, who has been given the name VINCENTIUS, Tobias, Nicolaus. – Most eminent were the Magnificent Lady Salvator Cocci and Lady Magdalena Gentile.  But Anna Fichi is standing for him; even in faith etc. Also the same Magdalena Gentile acting in the name of and on behalf of the Magnificent Rosa ***nicara from the town of Campo di Giove in the diocese of Sulmona and thus ….. in faith.

In Torricella in Pelignis on the twelfth day of the month of May in the year 1744.[19] 

BAPTISM CERTIFICATE
of the son Rosario
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 The twenty-eighth day of October 1775 – Reverend Priest D. Giuseppe ***ccioli by reason of license Most Illustrious Reverend Lord Vicar General D. Giuseppe ***zari and U.J. ris D. Salvatoris Pellegrino Provost Royal as above,

with my assistance D. Francisci Giuffrida by command of the Royal Chaplains, baptized the infant born yesterday in Catanae of Donna Michaela Ursi and procreated by Don Vincentio Bellini, who imposed on him the names Rosarium, Petrum, Vincentium, Josephum. The Godfather was Vincentius Maravigna.

The present commended copy was extracted from the General Archive of the Great Archiepiscopal Court of the City of Catania.
For the Chancellor - Aloysius Scuderi, secretary; Franciscus Belleni, archivist.

 Marriage Act
of the parents of the Great Musician

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 ΅ The present commended copy was extracted from the General 
Archive of the Great Archiepiscopal Court of the City of Catania.

 For the Chancellor = Aloysius Scuderi, secretary,                Franciscus Belleni, archivist.

A little more than three months after the five year (sacrifice) and precisely on the 17^th of January 1801, the young Rosario, Pietro, Vincenzo, Giuseppe Bellini conducted to her marriage the lady Agata Ferlito of Catania.

And here is the authentic act which consecrated this marriage.  

 ΅ From the General Archive of the Great Archiepiscopal Court and also the only Parochial Archive of the City of Catania.

“Read in the marriage book where (it was written) immediately after the contracted engagement, in the congregation of the Cathedral of Catania in the year 1801, sheet 4.”

Year of our Lord 1891 on 17^th January, Fourth Levy (Indiction), 1801.

The banns were read on three successive days (25^th, 26^th, 27^th December 1800) in three churches (the Holy Cathedral, at the Sacraments and Son of the congregation of S. Mariae de Elemosina and also in S. Mariae Auxilii) concerning

Translator’s Notes re Documents :-
Some abbreviations used in the past:
R.m or R.mi = Reverendissimo or Reverendissimus/Reverendissimi (The Very Reverend)
D.ni = Domini (Father)
S.T. = sine tempore (presently/currently)
Cinque lustri = period of five years
Quartae indictionis = fourth levy/indiction - a cyclic period of time  used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms …
U.J. ris = I did some research but could not find anything!