NameAlbino Rugo
Birth1 Aug 1880, Tramonti Di Mezzo
FatherLorenzo Rugo (1837-1913)
MotherAnna Maria Marmai (1841-1929)
Spouses
Birth2 Mar 1881, Tramonti di Mezzo
Death1937
FatherCarlo Domenico Corrado (1842-1925)
MotherTeresa Maria Varnerin (1850-1930)
Marriage1906, Tramonti di Sotto, Italia
ChildrenBeniamino (1906-1944)
 Lucia (1907-1908)
 Domenico Carlo (1910-1914)
 Carlo (1914-1977)
Notes for Albino Rugo
“Youngest child”. (or maybe not)

RUGO ALBINO nato nel 1880 a TRAMONTI DI SOTTO da LORENZO e MARMAI ANNA MARIA
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Albino Rugo sailed from Liverpool, England to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1910. He then entered the US at St. Albans, Vermont in March of 1910. His wife is shown as “Corrado M.” He was traveling with Lawrence Varnerin whose wife was shown as “Corrado L.”. One month later, when the US Census of 1910 was taken in April, Albino was living with Maria Maddalena Rugo (1876-1961) and her husband Giuseppe Marmai (1874-1925) at 326 Norfolk Avenue, in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts.

When Albino again entered the US in April 1914 at Ellis Island, New York, he was going to join his cousin "G. B. Rugo" on Norfolk Avenue, Dorchester. This G. B. Rugo was the brother of Maddalena Rugo Marmai with whom Albino had been living 4 years earlier. Just a month later, in May of 1914, Giovanni Battista Rugo (1885-1971) and his wife Vittoria Corrado (1885/1886-1973) had their first child; they were living at 331 Norfolk Avenue at that time. It looks like Vittoria Corrado was the sister of Albino’s wife. I have not been able to find a relationship to G. B. Rugo, but it looks like Joseph Marmai was a first cousin once removed.

In 1918 Albino registered for the draft for World War I. The form says that he was living with a wife, Mary, at 131 Canal Street, Westerly, Rhode Island. He said that he was a naturalized citizen of the US; he had been naturalized in Rhode Island.

According to Nerina Rugo, his granddaughter, Albino never returned to his family in Tramonti and was still alive and living in the US in 1948. I have not been able to find any record of him beyond 1918 (no World War II draft, census, Social Security, death, etc.). There is a death record for an Albino Rugo who died in Philadelphia about a month after the draft registration in Rhode Island. There is very little information on the record; says he is married, a bricklayer, parents names and place of birth “not determined”, but the age is off by 6 years. He apparently went to an emergency hospital and died there a day later of pneumonia and influenza. I can find no other Albino Rugos in the US or in Tramonti, so perhaps he really did die in Philadelphia. The 131 Canal Street address in Westerly has different people living there in 1915 and in 1920. No sign of “Mary” in either Rhode Island of Philadelphia after the 1918 death record.
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