Italian Infant Abandonment: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Certificate of Abandonment of Merico Scherzi.jpg|left|Certificate recording the abandonment of male child born of "genitori ignoti"]]<br>  

[[Image:Record of Birth of Merico Scherzi.jpg|left|Record of Birth of Merico Scherzi born on 23 Apr 1902 in Orero, District of Chiavari, Province of Genoa]]<br>  

<br>On occasion, a person who was abandoned as a child might learn who one or both of his or her birth parents were, for example, when registering for the military or when marrying. Sometimes the records of the ''ospizio ''were coordinated with the birth or baptism record. The above two images show the birth and abandonment records of a baby boy named by the midwife and the priest as "Merico Scherzi"; the certificate of abandonment is interleaved in the volume of records of births facing the page on which the birth is recorded. In this case, in 1902, at a time when the system was virtually ended, the surname was given to the child at the time of baptism, without the mother or father being identified,&nbsp;with the birth occurring on 23 Apr 1902, the baptism occurring on&nbsp;24 Apr 1902, and the abandonment occurring on 25 Apr 1902, in Chiavari, 12.6 km (13.4 miles) away from Orero.<br>