When Rosa Primitiva Mariani was born on 19 September 1839, in San Pietro Avellana, Molise, Italy, her father, Giuseppe Angelo Mariani, was 30 and her mother, Maria Elisabetta Frazzini, was 31. She married Paolo Antonio Carlino on 8 May 1864, in San Pietro Avellana, Campobasso, Molise, Italy. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City Ward 3, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake City Ward 2, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 6 September 1923, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.