Casnate con Bernate, Como, Lombardia, Italy Genealogy

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Lombardia

Como

Casnate con Bernate

Guide to Casnate con Bernate municipality, Italy ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

History

Studies suggest Casnate and Bernate have pre-Roman, particularly Celtic, origins. The oldest records of the names date back to the mid-13th century, with the forms Castenate and Brinate.

Jurisdictions:

• Casnate was one of the oldest towns in the Pieve of Fino Mornasco.
• During the Ten Year War between Como and Milan, Casnate was occupied by the Milanese.
• The Pieve of Fino Mornasco, including Bernate and Casnate, was definitively ceded to Como after the conflict.
• In Napoleonic times, Bernate with Gussa was annexed to Como from 1808 to 1816.
• In 1853, after the provisional annexation of Lombardy to the Kingdom of Sardinia, it became autonomous again, later taking the simple name of Bernate.
• The municipalities of Casnate and Bernate Rosales were merged into a single municipality on July 1, 1937, effective October 10 of the same year.

Major events:

• The occupation of Casnate by Milan during the Ten Year War between Como and Milan.

Resources

Civil Registration

• 1866-1929 Registri dello stato civile di Bernate (Como) 1866-1929(*); Bernate (Como). Ufficio dello stato civile at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• 1866-1929 Registri dello stato civile 1866-1929(*); Archivio Tribunale di Como at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• 1930-1948 Italia, Como, Casnate con Bernate. Stato civile(*); Archivio di Stato di Como at FamilySearch Catalog - images

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