Ellis Island - Apparently his first trip to US, arriving on Sep. 8, 1920, age 26, married, from Tramonti di Sotto, sailed from Trieste on the America to join his uncle Riccardo Martini at 337 Norfolk Ave. Dorchester. Left his mother, Maddalena, in Tramonti di Sotto. Says that his uncle paid for the trip. Apparently not traveling with anyone else from Tramonti. If he was married in Tramonti, then what happened to his wife? Why does he say he is married but list his mother as the nearest relative left behind in Tramonti. At age 26 he might have been likely to be married but perhaps he was not and the indication on the Ellis Island manifest is wrong. His future wife was age 14 and unmarried in January 1920 when the Census was taken.

1925 directory lists him as a mason, living at 8 Batchelder Street.

Admitted to citizenship 22 August 1927, petitioned 2 April 1921, no residence or wife listed (wife was dead by then), children ages 2 and 3.

Arrived in New York 8 September 1929 having sailed from Trieste, living at 335 Norfolk Avenue, a widower. 1929 and 1930 city directories show him at 335 Norfolk Avenue.

1930 Census: Living with mother-in-law and his 2 children ages 4 and 6. He was 35 on his last birthday and 28 when he married. Says he immigrated to US in 1918.

8 June 1931, Peter and Peter, Jr. returned from Italy, having sailed from Genoa, living at 335 Norfolk Avenue.

Photo of the Marconi Club members in 1935? says that Pietro Rugo is the Vice-President.

1938 directory shows him at 335 Norfolk Avenue.

1940 Census shows his sons Peter and Joseph living with his mother-in-law at 335 Norfolk Avenue. It looks like he has re-married and is renting at 105 Batchelder Street, Boston with a wife who is 13 years younger and four children ages 16 to 9, all born in Massachusetts. Peter had been living in Orange, New Jersey five years earlier, but not the wife and children, so presumably none of the children were Peter’s. He is a mason.