Onciario Città Sant'Angelo 1746 - index of the Capofuochi

Alphabetical Index of Residing Citizens

Other Sections of the Catasto

• Widows not included in any family
• Residing Foreigners
• Residing Churchmen
• Secular Non-Residing Foreigners

Common Jobs and other Features

• bracciale= a countryside labourer, from the Italian "braccia" (arms), was a peasant that worked on the lands of others, receiving wages for that.
• massaro= the owner or co-owner of a manso, an agricultural lot, usually with livestock on a farm ("masseria" in southern Italy)
• bifolco = usually son of a massaro, is the one who looks after the livestock, especially oxen used in plowing. The name derives from the Latin "bubulcus".
• vive del suo, or also vive nobilmente = Person of means, often belonging to the aristocracy, living on rentals and other revenues from fields or farm animals.
• (monaca) bizzocca= a lady who takes vows but lives in her family home
• a soccida= an agricultural contract of an associative type relating to livestock breeding, with the parties sharing in various forms the ownership, breeding and revenues of oxen, cows, sows, sheep and goats.

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