Mary Natoli was the second married name of Angelina Sgapponi the 13 year old who arrived in Australia in June 1877 with her adoptive father William Cagnacci and his wife Carlotta.
Read about Mary when she was known as Angelina Sgapponi and Mary Cagnacci before continuing.
William had assumed the name Pietro Eunandesi to marry his adopted daughter Angelina Sgapponi who is usually called Mary and recorded with the surnames Cagnacci, Sgapponi, Sgapone, Armindisi, Eunandesi, Ernandesi, Euandesi, Ermandisi, Ennendesi, Ervandesi and Eruandesi in birth, death and marriage certificates. Mary is given the surname Williams on the marriage certificate of her son Frank Natole from her second marriage to Antonio Natoli.
Mary had been married to William for 13 years when he died in 1896 and together they had 6 children, or 7 if William is the father of the deceased infant Raphael. The Cagnacci children were aged from 1 to 12 years when Mary married for the second time. Most of the misspellings of Eunandesi and other variations of her surname occur during this second marriage.
Mary was probably 32 years old when she married Antonio Natoli (aged between 30 and 38 years) in 1897. There is no known record of a registered marriage. The assumption of marriage is based on Maria’s death certificate. Antonio was 31 if other records are correct.
Between 1902 and 1913 Antonio (Anthony) NATOLI is recorded in the Queensland Post Office Directory as a farmer at Mudgeeraba.
Antonio and Mary had their first of 5 children, Angilo in 1897. Mary (age 33) is recorded on the birth certificate as Mary Ernedesi formerly Sgapone, resident of Wallace Street Breakfast Creek. Antonio Natoli is a resident of Gibson Street Woolloongabba. A second child, Alfred ‘Fred’ was born on 1899. Rosina ‘Rose’ was born in 1901, Louisa in 1903 and James in 1906.
The children were enrolled at the Mudgeeraba Lower Provisional School from about the age of 6 years, though the ages given at enrollment suggest different birthdates, by a few months, than obtained from other records. Rose spent 3 days at the Upper Mudgeeraba Provisional School (the Mill School). Some of the children also enrolled at Yandina Creek Provisional School and Brown’s Creek State School (North Arm) for various periods.
Antonio Natoli died in 1913 at ‘Whyengan’ Mudgeeraba aged 54 years and is buried at the Nerang Cemetary. He and Mary had been together 16 years. Mary had had her first child (Raphael) in 1880 at the age of 15 years. Her twelfth and last child (James) was born 26 years later when she was 41 years old. Her 11 surviving children were aged between 6 and 29 years when Antonio Natoli died.
Mary, born as Angelina Sgapponi, known as Mary Cagnacci and Mary Natoli died on 13 February 1942.