Nicola Sciascia
Category: Book
| Title | Nicola Sciascia |
|---|---|
| Author | Felicity Campbell |
| Year | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Format | PDF, 80 pages |
| Online resource | Available on this website - read only, may be printed and shared amongst the Sciascia family with the approval of the elders. |
| Topic | Nicola Sciascia |
Felicity Campbell has written a booklet about the life of Nicola Sciascia (1840-1898), one of the earliest Italian immigrants who became a lighthouse keeper at Māhia Peninsula. He married a Māori woman, Riria McGregor, and together they had 11 children. Nicola died in 1893 on Portland Island, off the peninsula, and today his descendants number over 2,000. Two of Riria and Nicola’s sons, John and Charles were in the 1913 Maori All Blacks. Charles Sciascia enlisted and fought at Flanders – tragically he was killed in action at La Basseville (now Warneton‐Comines) Belgium during the night of 31 July 1917 (registered as 1 August 1917). Through her own research and with much assistance from family Campbell has compiled the life story of Nicola, the history of his family and some detail of his known life in Italy and New Zealand (including copies of family letters and other historical documents). The booklet also includes the genealogy, and touches on the pilgrimage to Italy done by his descendants in 2007 (with selected photographs).
With foreword by Professor Piri Sciascia (1946-2020), great-grandson of Nicola (pictured here meeting a distant relative in Formia, Italy, in 2002).
More info about Sciascia can be found here:
The Italiano connection
Nicola Sciascia Family Pilgrimage 2007
