Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Indexed Marriage Records, 1896-1929

This database contains indexed marriage and marriage bann recoreds for comuni (towns) in the northern Italian region of Piedmont from 1896-1929 that were under the jurisdiction of the Verbania Tribunale in the provinces of Novara and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. A list of all the towns included can be seen in the browse table below. Some of these towns encompass frazioni (hamlets) and comuni soppressi (historical or extinct localities).

The keeping of vital records for the unified Kingdom of Italy started in 1866. In the southern part of the country, formerly under the Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, it started in 1809 with the exception of Sicily in 1820.

These indexed marriage records contain:

• Names of bride and groom
• Date of record
• Marriage date
• Marriage place
• Bride and groom’s parents’ names
• Bride and groom’s birth dates or ages at time of marriage
• Bride and groom’s birthplaces, residences, and occupations
• Witnesses’ names

Images contain other information such as professions of the couple and parents, and an indication of a deceased parent. This collection only contains images that have been indexed. The full, unindexed collection of images and records can be found in the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, Civil Registration Records, 1870-1937. The Civil Registration Records include birth, marriage, marriage banns, death, citizenship records and allegati (supplemental records).

Reading the Records:

Depending on the year, these records are either free-form hand written paragraphs or pre-printed forms with hand-written information entered into fields. Records from earlier years are of the hand written paragraph type, while records from more recent years contain the pre-printed forms.

Each record is assigned a record number that is unique to that year. This record number is written (either numerically or spelled out) in the margin. The primary person’s (or people’s) names are usually written below this. This makes searching for a particular person page by page fairly easy.

Sometimes there will be marginal notes written on a record. These marginal notes generally contain other vital information for the individual that the record is about.

Marriage banns or Pubblicazioni consist of copies of the marriage record. When a couple wanted to be married it was customary for them to post their intentions in a public place in the commune three consecutive Sundays before their marriage was to take place. These records were copied into volumes or books comprised only of pubblicazioni. Information in addition to the names of the bride and groom is available but is dependent on the specific documents provided for each marriage. There may not be pubblicazioni records included in this database for every year that there are marriages. Be sure to check the Civil Registration Records for allegati that contain other pubblicazioni records.