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    Great great grandpa raised 5 kids alone after his wife went back to Italy with another man-1910’s


    His older children and family certainly helped a lot i’m sure but apparently it was common to split up the family or even put the kids on orphanages back then.

    My grandma would always tell me the story of her grandfather and his wife that fled back to Italy leaving him with their 5 kids, but now she’s not around to answer any more questions about it 🙁

    by Bitter-Performer-396

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    2. Autumnwood on

      Man. That’s a rough story. The fact that he stayed with those kids says volumes

    7. ClamatoDiver on

      You should drop this in one of the Photoshop/ photo restoration subs, some folks there can do wonders and fix that for you so you can get it printed and framed.

    8. NomDePlume007 on

      Gotta say… huge hands seems to be a family trait!

      And props to your great-great-grandpops, that was a pretty advanced approach for his era!

    15. jwern01 on

      He’s a good man. Those kids don’t look like they’re having a carefree life and Dad looks pretty serious, their faces speak volumes.

    18. forgethim4 on

      Man, my family has the opposite story. She came to America to find him and met her future husband on the boat when she couldn’t find him after a year in New York, she assumed he was dead and remarried with four kids and then they had one more together.

    28. pyrofox79 on

      Your Great Great Grandpa was a real one. Your great great grandma was a ho for sho

    29. My1point5cents on

      Good man. Is it possible she was getting together with the other man before the last two were born? They look alike, but different than the older three (cheeks, eyes, smaller hands). I work in family law and you’d be surprised the number of men who are unknowingly taking care of kids who are not their own. And with her actions in leaving with another man, I wouldn’t be that surprised.

    36. slonhr on

      It’s clear he was a gentle father. They are all looking to our right side of the lens, while he looks at the lens and holds his youngest gently.for.the photo (who was probably running around just a moment ago).

      He got help from his oldest son and daughter, for sure, they are all serious, but they also all seem like they’ll burst laughing/running around the place. Looks like a happy family (serious for a photo, which was a serious thing, and expensive back then).

    37. AtlantaGangBangGuys on

      As Italian, this is the one thing that I know. That picture right there reminds me of my grandmother and her sisters who knew how to cook and clean by the time they were seven. You can see how resilient they are as well.

    40. dzogchenism on

      That’s pretty rare – most men would remarry a sister or cousin. That happened on both sides of my family – first wife died so great grandpa married her sister and went on to have more kids.

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