Silvia (Sylvia) Ambruso
married Antonio (Anthony) Saraco at Our Lady of Mount Virgin Church in
Garfield, NJ in November, 1923. The church
record mentions that they were also married in a civil ceremony about a month earlier. Sylvia was born in Salandra in 1893. She arrived in America in 1913 with her older brother and sister, Michael and Felicia. Anthony was born in 1891 or 1893 in Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy.
They lived on Farnham Avenue in Garfield, just behind Felicia
and Lawrence. Their first child, Carmela
(Millie) was born in Garfield in 1925. A
few years later, when Sylvia’s brother Nick bought a house in Jackson Heights,
Queens, New York, the family moved there.
They were living there in 1930 according to the census records. Anthony worked in a doll making factory in New
York. It was probably the Horsman Doll
Company. In 1933 Horsman was acquired by
Regal Doll Company of Trenton, NJ and some of the manufacturing operation was
moved to Trenton. The family moved to
Trenton when Anthony started working for Regal Doll. Anthony is listed as a doll maker in the 1931
Trenton City Directory and living at 147 Cummings Ave. It would seem that Anthony moved to Trenton
by himself, at first, until he found a house and brought the family there. In the 1933 Directory he is listed as living
on Adeline Avenue, where the family finally settled. Dante, their next child, was born in Trenton
in August of 1933. Then Esther Rose was
born in 1936.
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