Sale Marasino, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy Genealogy
Guide to Sale Marasino municipality, Italy ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.
History[edit | edit source]
Sale Marasino's origins are Medieval, but the area was inhabited even earlier. Marasino, located on a hill, was inhabited in Roman times. Sale was crossed by a Roman consular road connecting Brescia and Val Camonica.
Jurisdictions:
- In the Middle Ages, the Lake Iseo area was contested between Brescia and Bergamo.
- Sale Marasino, known as Vallis Renovata in the 12th century, had its own ecclesiastical circumscription.
Major events:
- Benedictine monks reclaimed the marshy coast, leading to Sale's development in the 16th century, during which many noble homes were built.
- Costanzo Ferrari, a writer, journalist, and essayist, was born in Sale Marasino in the 19th century. He participated in the Risorgimento uprisings and later went into exile. The municipal library is dedicated to him.
- Until the 19th century, key economic activities included charcoal production, wool processing, and olive cultivation.
- Sale Marasino was a commercial port for peat from the lower Sebino peat bogs.
- In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it became a wool center and saw the rise of spinning mills and silkworm breeding.[1]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Census[edit | edit source]
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Civil Registration[edit | edit source]
- 1806-1815 Italia, Brescia, Sale Marasino. Stato civile 1806-1815(*); Sale Marasino (Brescia). Ufficio dello stato civile at FamilySearch Catalog - images
Repositories[edit | edit source]
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Archives[edit | edit source]
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Societies[edit | edit source]
Research Helps[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Sale Marasino," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sale_Marasino, accessed 25 April 2025.