Not yet fully verified. Facts are tagged with their confidence level; family-supplied details have not all been checked against a primary record.
Biographical Information
Rosa Muratore was born in Nissoria, Sicily, on 25 June 1883 Confirmed, a daughter of Giuseppe Muratore and Filippa Rinaldi Confirmed. She married Agostino Basile at Nissoria in 1901 Confirmed and emigrated with him to Chicago, where she raised the family that included their son Phillip. Both her own mother and Agostino's were Rinaldis, which suggests the couple were cousins within the village Hypothesis.
Confidence of each fact: Confirmed primary record · Probable strong but unproven · Inherited family knowledge · Conflict sources disagree · Hypothesis working theory
Full Name & Name Variations
Rosa Muratore
Rosa Muratore - Italian original, 1908 Cook County birth certificateInherited
Rose Muratore - Americanised, son's Cook County death indexInherited
_Provenance:_ NAME CONFIRMED as ROSA - Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates record her as ROSA MURATORE, mother of Filippo Basilo b. 2 Jan 1908. The Cook County death index of her son gives the Americanised ROSE MURATORE. Both forms are attested; Rosa is the Italian original.
Birth & Death
Born: 25 June 1883 [CONFIRMED - Nissoria birth register]
Place: NISSORIA, Sicily (prov. of Catania until 1927, now Enna)
CONFIRMED as mother of Phillip N Basile (b. 2 Jan 1908 Chicago) by two independent primary records.Confirmed
Surname MURATORE is confirmed and correctly spelled on the chart - it needed no correction, unlike Locascio.Inherited
(Superseded) Her birth (~1883) is confirmed by her son's 1908 birth certificate, and her origin is Nissoria (prov. Catania, now Enna), not Messina — see below.Confirmed
CONFIRMED FROM A PRIMARY RECORD. Her son Filippo's 1908 Cook County birth certificate (certificate 861) records the mother as Rosa Muratore, AGE 25 - so born about 1883 - BIRTHPLACE 'Cattanea, Italy'. This independently CONFIRMS the chart's birth year of ~1882 (off by one) and gives her an Italian birthplace for the first time.Confirmed
Probable 'CATTANEA' = CATANIA, SICILY - the same clerk's spelling as her husband. She and Agostino are recorded from the SAME place, which fits a local marriage. Tagged PROBABLE pending a second record.Probable
The chart's 'Messina' is gently corrected to (probably) CATANIA - the adjacent eastern-Sicilian province. See Agostino Basile's page for the full reasoning and the caveat that a single clerk's spelling is not yet proof of the exact comune.Inherited
CONFIRMED - HER ARRIVAL. Rosa appears on the SS PRINZESS IRENE manifest, age 25, on the line directly below her husband Agostino, arriving Ellis Island 18 November 1906 from Naples. This independently confirms her ~1883 birth year and places her arrival with Agostino, a year before their son Filippo was born in Chicago. (NY passenger list T715, sheet 40, line 26.)Confirmed
ROSA WAS ALSO A RETURNING RESIDENT. On the 1906 manifest her residence column shows DITTO marks under Agostino's 'US' - so she too was already domiciled in the United States and returning, not a first-time immigrant. This means BOTH spouses had prior US residence by 1906: they lived in America, travelled to Italy together, and came back on the Prinzess Irene. It also means her line does NOT give the Italian town (it dittos 'US'). The comune must come from an earlier first-arrival record or the 1900 census.Inherited
TOWN: NISSORIA (with her husband). The 1906 manifest's place-of-birth column gives the Basile couple's birthplace as NISSORIA, a comune in the province of Catania until 1927 (now Enna), Sicily - reconciling the 1908 birth certificate's 'Cattanea'=Catania province. Her exact Nissoria birth record (~1883) on Portale Antenati would confirm it and name her parents.Inherited
CONFIRMED - HER BIRTH RECORD, NISSORIA. Portale Antenati, civil birth register of NISSORIA: ROSA MURATORE, born NISSORIA, 25 JUNE 1883; FATHER GIUSEPPE MURATORE, MOTHER FILIPPA RINALDI. She is the ONLY Rosa Muratore born 1883 in the index, and she was born in Nissoria - Agostino's own town - matching the 1906 manifest's place-of-birth for her exactly.Confirmed
IDENTITY: strong. Born Nissoria 1883, sole 1883 match, same town as her husband, and her mother's surname (Rinaldi) links into the Basile family (see below). The manifest age 25 (implying ~1881) runs a year or two ahead of a June 1883 birth - ordinary age-rounding on shipping/vital records; the 1908 certificate's 'age 25' also points to ~1883.Inherited
[HYPOTHESIS - THE TWO FAMILIES MAY BE RELATED] Agostino's mother is GIUSEPPA RINALDI; Rosa's mother is FILIPPA RINALDI. Two Rinaldi women marrying into the Basile and Muratore families in the same small comune strongly suggests the lines were connected - Agostino and Rosa may have been cousins through the Rinaldi line. Endogamy was normal in Sicilian hill towns. The 1906 shipmate Salvatore Rinaldi likely belongs to this same Rinaldi network. To be tested in the Nissoria registers.Hypothesis
The chart's 1882 is essentially right (off by one). Her town is Nissoria, not the neighbouring Leonforte where the Muratore surname is commonest - though her father's line may originate there.Inherited
MARRIAGE CONFIRMED - she married Agostino Basile at SAN GIUSEPPE, NISSORIA (banns 1 October 1901; Diocese of Nicosia church records). The banns name her parents as GIUSEPPE MURATORE and FILIPPA RINALDI - independently re-confirming the parents from her birth record.Confirmed
TOUCHING CORROBORATION: the same church records hold an ELDER Rosa Muratore, born 1873, DIED 28 SEPTEMBER 1878 at Nissoria, with the SAME parents (Giuseppe & Filippa Rinaldi). Our Rosa (b.1883) was named after this deceased older sister - a common Sicilian practice - which firmly ties her to the same family.Inherited
Sources & Documents (8 sources)
Diocese of Nicosia church records - Basile x Muratore marriage banns, Nissoria, 1 October 1901 ↗"Italy, Enna, Diocese of Nicosia, Catholic Church Records, 1535-1929", marriage banns 1 October 1901, church of SAN GIUSEPPE, NISSORIA: Augustinum Basile and Rosam Muratore; the bride's parents named as Giuseppe (Josephi) Muratore and Filippa (Philippae) Rinaldi. Confirms the marriage, the town, and Rosa's parents. The same collection records children Joseph and Josepha Basile baptised at Nissoria, and an elder Rosa Muratore (b.1873, d.1878 Nissoria) of the same parents. (FamilySearch / Diocese of Nicosia (Enna))
Nissoria civil birth register - Rosa Muratore, 25 June 1883 ↗Portale Antenati (Archivio di Stato di Enna), civil birth register of NISSORIA: Rosa Muratore, born Nissoria 25 June 1883; father GIUSEPPE MURATORE, mother FILIPPA RINALDI. The sole Rosa Muratore born 1883 in the index; born in Agostino's town, matching the 1906 manifest. Names her parents.Portale Antenati / Archivio di Stato di Enna
Nissoria, Sicily - comune and its provincial history ↗Nissoria is a comune in the Province of Enna, Sicily. The Province of Enna was created in 1927 from parts of the provinces of Catania and Caltanissetta - so before 1927 Nissoria belonged to the PROVINCE OF CATANIA. This reconciles the Basile records: 'Cattanea' (Catania) on the 1908 birth certificate is the province; Nissoria (read off the 1906 manifest's place-of-birth column) is the town. A second passenger on the same 1906 sheet is also recorded born in Nissoria.Wikipedia / FamilySearch Research Wiki
Ellis Island passenger manifest — Agostino & Rosa Basile, 18 November 1906 ↗"New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925", entry for Agostino Basile (age 31, occupation porter) and, on the line below, his wife Rosa (age 25); arriving Ellis Island 18 November 1906 aboard the SS PRINZESS IRENE, departed NAPLES. Nationality 'Italy, Italian South'; Agostino recorded going to his BROTHER FRANCESCO. NARA series T715, roll T715-0799, page 28; sheet 40, lines 25-26. FamilySearch DGS 1368704, image 327 of 888. Confirms the couple's arrival and ages (matching their son's 1908 birth certificate).FamilySearch / NARA T715
Surname distribution — BASILE and MURATORE (Geneanet) ↗BASILE ranked 73rd, among the most common surnames in Italy, clusters at Foggia, Carpino, Palermo, Casalnuovo di Napoli, Acerra, Biccari, Taranto, Campobasso - too common to localise. MURATORE ranked 1,137th, leading Italian cluster Agrigento, heavily skewed by a French-Riviera population. Cited as a NEGATIVE result. (Geneanet (user-submitted trees))
Cook County birth register — Filippo Basilo, 1908 ↗Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates 1871-1953, entry for Filippo Basilo (Phillip N Basile), born 2 January 1908, Chicago; certificate 861. FATHER Agostino Basilo, age 32 (b. c.1876), BIRTHPLACE 'Cattanea, Italy'. MOTHER Rosa Muratore, age 25 (b. c.1883), BIRTHPLACE 'Cattanea, Italy'. 'Cattanea' is a clerk's phonetic spelling, almost certainly CATANIA, Sicily. This is the record that first gave a birthplace and birth years for the Basile/Muratore couple.FamilySearch / Cook County
Cook County death record — Phillip N Basile, 1978Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998, entry for Phillip N Basile, born 2 January 1908, died 10 November 1978, Orland Park; buried 14 November 1978, Evergreen Park. Parents Agostino Basile and Rose Muratore.FamilySearch / Cook County
Family knowledge — supplied by BasileOral/handed-down family information supplied by P.J.B., July 2026, and the original family chart (Family Tree.rtf / FamilyTree.html).Family