Rosario Fusco

Brief Life History of Rosario

Rosario Fusco was born on 20 October 1901, in Praiano, Salerno, Campania, Italy as the son of Rasario Fusco and Maria Ermellino. He had at least 4 sons with Concettina Ferro. He lived in The Bronx, New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1950. He died in 1968, in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 67.

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Family Time Line

Rosario Fusco
1901–1968
Concettina Ferro
1909–
John Loius Fusco
1932–2002
Rosario Fusco
1934–2020
Mario Fusco
1935–2020
Luca Fusco
1940–

Sources (7)

  • Rosario Fussco, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Rosairo Fusco nel documento di John Louis Fusco e Sondra Marlene Scheetz, “California, County Marriages, 1850-1952”
  • Rosario Fusco, "New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946"

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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

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Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Italian Salvatore, Angelo, Rocco, Sal, Carmine, Domenic, Luigi, Pasquale, Caesar, Carlo, Saverio.

Italian: nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Italian fusco ‘dark’ (from Latin fuscus); in some cases it may be from a medieval personal name derived from the Roman surname Fuscus, originally of the same meaning.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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