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Mattera

The strongest concentration of Mattera in US arrival records points to Campania, with 71 of 105 arrivals (68 percent) originating there.

105

US arrivals
1830 to 1912

35

Comuni of
origin

13

Regioni
represented

3

Notable on
Wikipedia

Arrivals by regioneN = 105
Abruzzo: 2 arrivalsPuglia: 5 arrivalsBasilicata: 1 arrivalsCalabria: 7 arrivalsCampania: 71 arrivalsEmilia-Romagna: 2 arrivalsLazio: 4 arrivalsLiguria: 1 arrivalsLombardia: 1 arrivalsSardegna: 1 arrivalsSicilia: 8 arrivalsTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol: 1 arrivalsUmbria: 1 arrivals

Top regione

Campania

71 of 105
68 percent of arrivals

Arrivals
0
< 2
2 to 7
7 to 21
21+

Distribuzione per regione

Concentration by regione

13 regioni represented

  • Campania7168%
  • Sicilia88%
  • Calabria77%
  • Puglia55%
  • Lazio44%
  • Emilia-Romagna22%
  • Abruzzo22%
  • Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol11%
  • Sardegna11%
  • Basilicata11%
  • Lombardia11%
  • Umbria11%
  • Liguria11%

Origini per comune

Arrival records by comune

Each row is a comune (municipality) where at least one passenger named Mattera was recorded between 1830 and 1912.

Persone notevoli

Notable Mattera on Wikipedia

Varianti grafiche

Spelling variants worth checking

  • The spelling you know may not be the one in the records. For example, a family remembers Mansini, but the records read Mancini.
  • If your spelling does not appear, a close variant in the list below may be the same family.

Related guide

Myths About Name Changes at Ellis Island

Names were never changed at the border. The spelling here is the original Italian: Giovinelli in the records, perhaps Jovanelli in the family today.

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Matera

167 US arrivals

Matter

1 US arrivals

Matteri

5 US arrivals

Mattero

1 US arrivals

Matterazzi

2 US arrivals

Della mattera

1 US arrivals

Matte

1 US arrivals

Maettera

2 US arrivals

Variants are surfaced from the surname index, not from per-name research. None of these is guaranteed to be the same family as Mattera.

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