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Background information on Albert Beyer by his daughter Alberta on September 24th 1985 at Bay St Louis.
ALBERT BEYER married Mathilde Spotorno in Bay St Louis Mississippi. The following is a background on the mother's side.
There were two families of interest, the Olivari and the Spotorno.
There were four Olivari children, Lazaras, Catherine, Mathilda and John Baptist.There were three Spotorno children, Eugine,
Andrew,and Jenis. Three of the Olivaris married three of the Louis Spotornos as follows:
Mathilde married Jenis and they had twelve children, two died when they were small.
Catherine married Andrew and they had three children Julia, Oscar, and Andrew.
Lazaros married Eugine. They had one daughter, Mathilde who married Albert Beyer. Eugine died at the age of 33 and Alberta's mother (Afathilde) died when Alberta was 7. Her father died three ? days before Alberta was born. Mathilda had four or five children that died at birth.Lazaros died in August 1920.
Lazaros was born in Camozli Province of Genoa, Italy in 1848 and died in Bay St. Louis August 1920, where he is buried. He married Eugine Spotorno in Bay St. Louis and she is buried in NOLa.
Spotorne - Born in Spotorno Italy (near Monaco) and was grandfather of Eugina, Andrew, Jenis and John Baptist. He studied to be a priest but left to marry. Vowed to make his oldest son a priest. He objected and went to Spain, from there he decided to go to New York but a storm drove the ship south and he landed in New Orleans.
Olivari was a sea faring family. John Baptist stayed in Italy and went to live with Aunt Katherine. He became a sea faring man (captain)and was lost at sea. He married Fortunata Schiafina in Italy and had two children:
Julia, born in Italy. Came to US at age of 6, and married Reginald Blaize in Bay St. Louis. They had four children, Julia, Regina,
Reginald ( who married and had one son who was killed) and Tt?iji ni. .JcHfJ 8
Erasmus born in Italy, came to the US at the age of three (?) and married Bessie (?) in Ocean Springs ( Pass Christian). Bessie was a school teacher and he worked for an oil company and lived in Houston. They had three children:
Alicia who married Beuhing Pike and live in Ventura, California.
They had two children:
Elizabeth who married Elton Quinton and live in Louisville, Ky and
Martha who did not married and is with a Museum in New