Como and Lecco, Lombardy, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1866-1936

The keeping of vital records for the unified Kingdom of Italy started in 1866. In the southern part of the country, formerly under the Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, it started in 1809 with the exception of Sicily in 1820.

This database contains births, marriages, marriage banns, deaths, allegati (enclosures or supplemental records), and citizenship records for comuni (towns) in the northern Italian region of Lombardia from 1866-1936. This database currently contains records for some towns in the provinces of Como and Lecco. A list of all the towns included can be seen in the browse table below. Some of these towns encompass frazioni (hamlets) and comuni soppressi (historical or extinct localities). Records for these localities will also be found among these records. For a list of frazioni and comuni soppressi and the corresponding towns to which they belong, see the bottom of this description.

Reading the Records:

Depending on the year, these records are either free-form hand written paragraphs or pre-printed forms with hand-written information entered into fields. Records from earlier years are of the hand written paragraph type, while records from more recent years contain the pre-printed forms.

Each record is assigned a record number that is unique to that year. This record number is written (either numerically or spelled out) in the margin. The primary person’s (or people’s) names are usually written below this. This makes searching for a particular person page by page fairly easy.

Sometimes there will be marginal notes written on a record. These marginal notes generally contain other vital information for the individual that the record is about. For example, on a person’s birth record you may see information written in the margin regarding that person’s marriage and/or death.

What Information is Listed:

The amount of information listed for an individual can vary according to record type, form type, year, and the regulations governing vital records at the time they were recorded. However, the following information, generally available for each record type, has been transcribed by Ancestry.

Births (Nascite):

• Name of child


• Date of record


• Child’s birthplace


• Parents’ names

Additional information may be listed in the record and can be found by viewing the corresponding image. For example, besides the exact date of birth, also the age, profession and place of residence of the parents are listed, in addition to the witnesses’ names, age, profession and place of residence.

Marriages (Matrimoni):

• Names of bride and groom


• Marriage date


• Bride and groom’s parents’ names


• Marriage place

Additional information may be listed in the record and can be found by viewing the corresponding image. For example, the bride and groom’s birthplaces, residences, and occupations are often listed. If their birthdates are not listed, their ages at the time of the marriage may be listed instead. Moreover, witnesses’ names, age, profession and place of residence are also included.

Deaths (Decessi):

• Name of deceased


• Date of record


• Deceased’s parent’s names


• Place of death

Additional information may be listed in the record and can be found by viewing the corresponding image. For example, in addition to the exact date of death, there will be also listed the age, residence, profession, birthplace, parents’ names, and if married also the name of the spouse of the deceased. Further more, the name, age, profession, and place of residence of the people reporting the death (who are sometimes family members or neighbors) will be also included.

Enclosures (Allegati):

Allegati are enclosures or supplemental records and documents that were needed, in some cases, to compile the actual birth, marriage, or death record. There are many different types of records and documents that could be included as allegati Some examples include notes from hospitals regarding births or deaths, notes from other towns or foreign countries if a birth or death occurred in that place and not the person’s usual place of residence, marriage files, marriage banns, declarations of intention to marry, and birth certificates of the bride and groom.

Information available in the allegati varies greatly according to the types of records and documents included. There may be several pages of records that pertain to an individual or couple. Be sure to view the next few images following the first image on which you locate an individual in order to obtain all possible information from the record.

Marriage Banns (Pubblicazioni):

Pubblicazoni consist of copies of the marriage banns. When a couple wanted to be married it was customary for them to post their intentions in a public place in the comune three consecutive Sundays before their marriage was to take place. These records were copied into volumes or books comprised only of pubblicazioni. The original banns posted in the town may be found in the marriage allegati.

Information in addition to the names of the bride and groom is available but is dependent on the specific documents provided for each marriage.

There may not be pubblicazioni records included in this database for every year that there are marriages. Be sure to also check the allegati though for other pubblicazioni records.

Citizenship Records (Cittadinanze):

Citizenship regulations changed in Italy over the years. Examples of reasons for listing individuals on these records includes:

• Italian citizen declares a change in residence (moving in or out of a town)


• Foreign-born individual of Italian parents receives Italian citizenship


• Foreign-born individual living in Italy becomes naturalized and gains citizenship


• Native-born individual with a foreign-born father decides to renounce Italian citizenship and elects that of the father

Indexes:

There are hand-written annual and decennial indexes for many of the records. These indexes have not been transcribed and so are only searchable by image. They are organized according to record type and year. Generally these indexes will list the name of the primary person and their record number. Sometimes the primary person’s father’s and mother’s names will be listed as well. This is helpful for distinguishing between primary individuals who have the same name. Once you have located someone in an index, use the information you’ve gathered to then locate the same individual in the actual records.

Frazioni and Comuni Soppressi:

The following is a list of frazioni and comuni soppressi and the corresponding towns in which they were incorporated by or to which they belong.

Type	Name	Town (Comune)	Type	Name	Town (Comune)
Frazione	Arcellasco	Erba	Frazione	Piano Porlezza	Carlazzo
Frazione	Asnago	Cantù	Frazione	Piazza Santo Stefano	Cernobbio
Frazione	Breccia	Como	Frazione	Rebbio	Como
Frazione	Breglia	Plesio	Frazione	Romanò Brianza	Inverigo
Frazione	Buccinigo	Erba	Frazione	Rovenna	Cernobbio
Frazione	Buggiolo	Val Rezzo	Frazione	Scaria	Lanzo D'Intelvi
Frazione	Camerlata	Como	Frazione	Trevano	Uggiate Trevano
Frazione	Camnago Volta	Como	Frazione	Verzago	Alzate Brianza
Frazione	Civiglio	Como	Frazione	Vill'Albese	Albaville
Frazione	Cressogno	Valsolda	Frazione	Villa Romanò	Inverigo
Frazione	Crevenna	Erba	Comune Soppresso	Beregazzo	Beregazzo con Figliaro
Frazione	Fabrica Durini	Alzate Brianza	Comune Soppresso	Bernate Rosales	Casnate con Bernate
Frazione	Gaggino	Faloppio	Comune Soppresso	Camnago Faloppia	Faloppio
Frazione	Gottro	Carlazzo	Comune Soppresso	Campione	Campione D'Italia
Frazione	Gressogno	Valsolda	Comune Soppresso	Civello	Villa Guardia
Frazione	Incino	Erba	Comune Soppresso	Colciago D'Erba	Lurago D'Erba
Frazione	Isola Comacina	Ossuccio	Comune Soppresso	Cremnago	Inverigo
Frazione	Lieto Colle	Como	Comune Soppresso	Lezza	Pontelezza
Frazione	Loveno	Menaggio	Comune Soppresso	Loveno Sopra Menaggio	Menaggio
Frazione	Lucino	Montana Lucino	Comune Soppresso	Lurate Abbate	Como
Frazione	Maccio	Villa Guardia	Comune Soppresso	Mirabello Comasco	Beregazzo con Figliaro
Frazione	Moiana	Merone	Comune Soppresso	Ponte Lezza	Ponte Lambro
Frazione	Molina	Faggeto Lario	Comune Soppresso	San Siro	Santa Maria Rezzonico
Frazione	Monte Olimpino	Como	Comune Soppresso	Santa Valeria	Sormano
Frazione	Monticello	Como	Comune Soppresso	Santa Valeria Sotto	Sormano