John S Gullo was born in 1887, in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Sicily, Italy. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Mary Scime. He immigrated to United States in 1909 and lived in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Limerick Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 31 October 1979, at the age of 92.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Salvatore, Sal, Angelo, Carmine, Santo, Valentino, Aldo, Biaggio, Carmelo, Egidio, Filippo, Filomena.
Italian (southern): nickname from southern Italian Greek kouddho, skouddho, from classical Greek dialect kolos ‘hornless’, a term used metaphorically to denote someone childless. The form Gulló, with the stress on the final syllable, may derive from Greek kyllos ‘bandy-legged’ or modern Greek koullos ‘mutilated’.
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