When Guy MASSARO was born in 1944, in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France, his father, Henri François Sébastien Massaro, was 27 and his mother, Marguerite Alphonsine Rio, was 24. He died in 2012, in Riantec, Morbihan, Brittany, France, at the age of 68.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Angelo, Salvatore, Carmine, Pasquale, Rocco, Antonio, Gennaro, Vito, Carlo, Gaetano, Nunzio, Antoninette.
Italian: occupational or status name from massaro, which in northern Italy denoted a tenant farmer or share cropper and in central and southern Italy could also denote an agent or steward of a rural estate, from medieval Latin massarius, a derivative of massa ‘farm, estate’. Compare Massa and Massara .
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