Domenico Taiariol and Angela della Martini
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Husband: Domenico Tajariòl
Birth: 4 Jan 1825, Piagno di Corva, Azzano Decima, Friuli, Italy
Father: Giacomo Tajariòl Mother: Domenica Sartor
Death: abt 1890, Villotta, Azzano Decimo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia
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Wife: Pietra (Pierina) Marson
Birth: 11 Sep 1828, Visinale di Pasiano, Pordenone, Italy
Father: Sebastiano Marson Mother: AnnaMaria Sacilotto
Death: 4 Sep 1896, Zoppola
Marriage: 24 Nov 1847, Visinale di Pasiano, Pordenone, Italy
Children: Basilio (1851-1896)
Giovanna (1860-1885)
Agostino (1864-1891)
Vincenzo (1866-?)
Sebastiano (1869-?)
Rosa (1871-1948)
The Tajariòl family has been traced back to Domenico’s great-grandfather Battista, who was born in Piagno di Corva. The name is of Venetian origin and was a professional name meaning a woodcutter or someone who was “the person in charge of sawing timber to reduce trunks to size, or into boards / boards and the like.” At the beginning of the 20th Century, the spelling was changed to Taiariòl, which is the current spelling. Taiariòl is often contracted to Tariòl in Friulian.
Marson is a surname of early medieval French origin. It is a locational name from a place near Chalons-sur-Marne, fifty miles east of Paris. So called from Mars, a popular form of the saint’s name Medardus, with the diminutive suffix “-on.”
St. Medardus was Bishop of Noyon in the 5th and 6th Centuries, and his name is a Latinized form of the Germanic “math-hard,” a personal name composed of the words for strength and brave.
Domenico Tajariòl was born on January 4, 1825, in Piagno di Corva, Azzano Decimo. He was the oldest of the four sons of Giacomo Tajariòl and Domenica Sartor. Giacomo was a tenant-farmer, similar to a share cropper. Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. In Northern Italy, it was known as mezzadria (in France, as métayage), and it dated back to the Roman period, although it was not in widespread use. It proved useful after the emancipation of Roman slaves as the newly freed peasants had no land or cash.
Mezzadria and métayage mean “halving” and refer to the splitting of the produce of the soil between landowner and land-holder. The split was rarely 50-50, but rather defined by contract, which must have varied with the fertility of the soil and other circumstances. In practice, the split could vary so much that the landlord's share was sometimes as much as two-thirds, sometimes as little as one-third. Sometimes the landlord supplied all the stock, sometimes only part—the cattle and seed perhaps, while the farmer provided the implements; or perhaps only half the seed and half the cattle, the farmer finding the other halves. Taxes were also frequently divided, being paid wholly by one or the other, or jointly by both. By the 18th Century, métayage agreements began to give way to agreements to share profits from the sale of the crops and to straight tenant farming, although the practice in its original form could still be found in isolated communities until the early 20th Century.
The Tajariòl family moved around the Pordenone area quite a bit, living in Pasiano, Azzano, Visinale, Piagno di Corva, and Cesena. Tenants leaving their tenancy was common enough that it had developed a ritual, called “to make San Martino.” The feast of San Martino (St. Martin of Tours) falls on November 11th each year. To quote Nerio Petris:
A very old custom developed during the Middle Ages that on this occasion the tenants, by choice or if the owner imposed it, had to vacate the house and land and had to seek tenancy elsewhere. On this date, it was also tradition to start drinking new wine (San Martino is the protector of winemakers). In Zoppola, of which he is the patron saint, during the festivity from time immemorial, it was customary to bring to bless the cattle.
The tradition was well-enough known that it was part of Victor Emmanuel II’s speech before the Battle of San Martino during the Second War of Italian Independence (24 June 1859): “My children, we must retake San Martino and hold it, or our enemies will compel us to make San Martino.”
To be forced off the land at the beginning of winter would have been a true hardship, one which the Tajariòls seemed to have suffered repeatedly. Making San Martino also points to the lack of family assets. The transfer of tenancy only happened to the poor—those who were devoid of their own property (house, barn, fields) and often also devoid of movable property (furniture, work tools, etc.). The vast majority of Cassin, Pighin, Petris, and Quattrin families never make San Martino because they had multi-generational standing in Zoppola even before the move to peasant ownership of land which occurred with the Napoleonic Invasion.
Husband: Domenico Tajariòl
Birth: 4 Jan 1825, Piagno di Corva, Azzano Decima, Friuli, Italy
Father: Giacomo Tajariòl Mother: Domenica Sartor
Death: abt 1890, Villotta, Azzano Decimo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia
No photo available
Wife: Pietra (Pierina) Marson
Birth: 11 Sep 1828, Visinale di Pasiano, Pordenone, Italy
Father: Sebastiano Marson Mother: AnnaMaria Sacilotto
Death: 4 Sep 1896, Zoppola
Marriage: 24 Nov 1847, Visinale di Pasiano, Pordenone, Italy
Children: Basilio (1851-1896)
Giovanna (1860-1885)
Agostino (1864-1891)
Vincenzo (1866-?)
Sebastiano (1869-?)
Rosa (1871-1948)
The Tajariòl family has been traced back to Domenico’s great-grandfather Battista, who was born in Piagno di Corva. The name is of Venetian origin and was a professional name meaning a woodcutter or someone who was “the person in charge of sawing timber to reduce trunks to size, or into boards / boards and the like.” At the beginning of the 20th Century, the spelling was changed to Taiariòl, which is the current spelling. Taiariòl is often contracted to Tariòl in Friulian.
Marson is a surname of early medieval French origin. It is a locational name from a place near Chalons-sur-Marne, fifty miles east of Paris. So called from Mars, a popular form of the saint’s name Medardus, with the diminutive suffix “-on.”
St. Medardus was Bishop of Noyon in the 5th and 6th Centuries, and his name is a Latinized form of the Germanic “math-hard,” a personal name composed of the words for strength and brave.
Domenico Tajariòl was born on January 4, 1825, in Piagno di Corva, Azzano Decimo. He was the oldest of the four sons of Giacomo Tajariòl and Domenica Sartor. Giacomo was a tenant-farmer, similar to a share cropper. Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. In Northern Italy, it was known as mezzadria (in France, as métayage), and it dated back to the Roman period, although it was not in widespread use. It proved useful after the emancipation of Roman slaves as the newly freed peasants had no land or cash.
Mezzadria and métayage mean “halving” and refer to the splitting of the produce of the soil between landowner and land-holder. The split was rarely 50-50, but rather defined by contract, which must have varied with the fertility of the soil and other circumstances. In practice, the split could vary so much that the landlord's share was sometimes as much as two-thirds, sometimes as little as one-third. Sometimes the landlord supplied all the stock, sometimes only part—the cattle and seed perhaps, while the farmer provided the implements; or perhaps only half the seed and half the cattle, the farmer finding the other halves. Taxes were also frequently divided, being paid wholly by one or the other, or jointly by both. By the 18th Century, métayage agreements began to give way to agreements to share profits from the sale of the crops and to straight tenant farming, although the practice in its original form could still be found in isolated communities until the early 20th Century.
The Tajariòl family moved around the Pordenone area quite a bit, living in Pasiano, Azzano, Visinale, Piagno di Corva, and Cesena. Tenants leaving their tenancy was common enough that it had developed a ritual, called “to make San Martino.” The feast of San Martino (St. Martin of Tours) falls on November 11th each year. To quote Nerio Petris:
A very old custom developed during the Middle Ages that on this occasion the tenants, by choice or if the owner imposed it, had to vacate the house and land and had to seek tenancy elsewhere. On this date, it was also tradition to start drinking new wine (San Martino is the protector of winemakers). In Zoppola, of which he is the patron saint, during the festivity from time immemorial, it was customary to bring to bless the cattle.
The tradition was well-enough known that it was part of Victor Emmanuel II’s speech before the Battle of San Martino during the Second War of Italian Independence (24 June 1859): “My children, we must retake San Martino and hold it, or our enemies will compel us to make San Martino.”
To be forced off the land at the beginning of winter would have been a true hardship, one which the Tajariòls seemed to have suffered repeatedly. Making San Martino also points to the lack of family assets. The transfer of tenancy only happened to the poor—those who were devoid of their own property (house, barn, fields) and often also devoid of movable property (furniture, work tools, etc.). The vast majority of Cassin, Pighin, Petris, and Quattrin families never make San Martino because they had multi-generational standing in Zoppola even before the move to peasant ownership of land which occurred with the Napoleonic Invasion.
Pierina Marson was born on September 11, 1828, in Visinale di Pasiano. She was the daughter of Sebastiano Marson and AnnaMaria Sacilotto. Visinale is a town of about 1000 people which is near Pasiano, in Pordenone. The existence of the Visinale is attested by documents dating back to the fourteenth century. In the past, the territory was linked to the Castellani di Prata, while the parish depended on the church of San Paolo di Pasiano, until the Napoleonic era, when it was integrated into the newly established municipality of Pasiano. Noteworthy are the parish church and several villas, such as Villa Gozzi (the home of Gasparo Gozzi, shown here), Villa Cavazza-Querini and Villa Capello-Tiepolo.
Domenico and Pierina were married on November 24, 1847, in Visinale. He was 22, and she was 19. They settled their new family in Pasiano, most likely with his father and unmarried siblings. The next year saw the first war of Italian independence, but, as far as we know, Domenico was not involved.
In 1851, Pierina bore Domenico his first child, a son whom they named Basilio. As far as is known, they had six children together. There were four years between their marriage and Basilio’s birth and nine years between Basilio’s birth and that of his sister Giovanna, the next known child. There likely were other children who did not survive, but no records of their names have been discovered. Sometime in the late 1850s, the family moved to Cesena, another hamlet of Azzano Decimo like Pasiano, but further east. (Cesena is now best known for the sports fishing in its artificial lakes and ponds which were formed as a result of excavations for a highway.) Giovanna was born in 1860 in Cesena. Agostino was born in 1864, Vincenzo in 1866, Sebastiano in 1869, and Rosa in 1871. Rosa’s civil registration of birth shows that Domenico and Pierina each signed with an “x,” indicating neither could write, nor could they probably read.
Life went on. The life of an itinerant tenant farmer was never easy, though. As Nerio has said, “Like the industrial workers in modern times, they (the mezzadria) were defined as ‘proletarians’—that is, those who could rely solely on the work of their own arms and those of the offspring (children).” Without any ownership of land, they were always under the threat of San Martino.
In 1881, Domenico and Pierina became grandparents for the first time when their son Basilio and his wife Maria Peressen had a son. He was named Domenico after his grandfather. There would be at least 31 grandchildren over the next 40 years. In the next year, their daughter Giovanna married Antonio Peressin and moved to Zoppola. Unfortunately, she died there just three years later.
Sometime in 1890, Domenico died in Villotta. He was 65 years old. The Family Tajariòl again made San Martino, migrating from Villotta to Zoppola on November 11, 1890. When they reached Zoppola, they were employed by Antonio Romanò, the prosperous and well-loved townsman who left most of his assets to the town when he died. The Tajariòl family—now led by Basilio—lived in a small house located at the back of the town hall (the same house would later be transformed into scuolùtis—makeshift classrooms). Later, their financial condition reestablished, they were able to buy or build their own house, dividing the patriarchal family into different branches. Unlike the Petrises, the branches do not seem to have acquired nicknames. Vincenzo and Sebastiano were not with the family in Zoppola, so either they did not survive childhood or had set out on their own earlier.
Pierina died on September 4, 1896, in Zoppola. She was 68 years old. In December of that year, Basilio and his branch moved to Malnisio, near Montereale Valcellina. Unfortunately, he drowned there a few days later. His widow moved the family back to Zoppola where she went back into sharecropping, living in via Cusano (later known as via C. Panciera) and then in via Risi until her death in 1943.
Unfortunately, nothing other than the above information is known about the Domenico Tajariòl and Pierina Marson. All knowledge of who they were as people or what their hopes and dreams might have been have faded over time. They are among the many ancestors for whom we only have names and dates. They are still among the reasons we are here and are who we are. They deserve to be remembered.
As a final note, other members of the Taiariol stayed in or moved back to Azzano Decimo. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII invites Catholics to take the problems of the weaker classes to heart. According to Guiseppe Bariviera (the town historian for Azzano),
The spokesperson, once again, is a priest, the parish priest Don Domenico Fabrici. "When the Catholic Movement became the continuer of the work begun by Wollemborg, the archpriest of Azzano Decimo, Don Domenico Fabrici, also promoted the establishment of a Cassa (bank) at the parish of San Pietro Apostolo in Azzano, after probably having begun to operate already the year before in an informal way, as some testimonies indicate.” The founding members met in the Municipal Office where, in the presence of the notary, they declared, as stated in the deed of incorporation, that they wanted to set up “a general partnership under the name Cassa Rurale dei Prestiti S. Pietro Apostolo (Rural Savings and Loans of St Peter the Apostle), a cooperative company in a collective name. The purpose of the company is to improve the moral and material condition of its shareholders, providing them with the necessary money, in the ways determined by the statute.”
Among the founding members was a Marco Taiariol. Domenico and Pietra’s great grandson John Quattrin would have been very proud.
In 1851, Pierina bore Domenico his first child, a son whom they named Basilio. As far as is known, they had six children together. There were four years between their marriage and Basilio’s birth and nine years between Basilio’s birth and that of his sister Giovanna, the next known child. There likely were other children who did not survive, but no records of their names have been discovered. Sometime in the late 1850s, the family moved to Cesena, another hamlet of Azzano Decimo like Pasiano, but further east. (Cesena is now best known for the sports fishing in its artificial lakes and ponds which were formed as a result of excavations for a highway.) Giovanna was born in 1860 in Cesena. Agostino was born in 1864, Vincenzo in 1866, Sebastiano in 1869, and Rosa in 1871. Rosa’s civil registration of birth shows that Domenico and Pierina each signed with an “x,” indicating neither could write, nor could they probably read.
Life went on. The life of an itinerant tenant farmer was never easy, though. As Nerio has said, “Like the industrial workers in modern times, they (the mezzadria) were defined as ‘proletarians’—that is, those who could rely solely on the work of their own arms and those of the offspring (children).” Without any ownership of land, they were always under the threat of San Martino.
In 1881, Domenico and Pierina became grandparents for the first time when their son Basilio and his wife Maria Peressen had a son. He was named Domenico after his grandfather. There would be at least 31 grandchildren over the next 40 years. In the next year, their daughter Giovanna married Antonio Peressin and moved to Zoppola. Unfortunately, she died there just three years later.
Sometime in 1890, Domenico died in Villotta. He was 65 years old. The Family Tajariòl again made San Martino, migrating from Villotta to Zoppola on November 11, 1890. When they reached Zoppola, they were employed by Antonio Romanò, the prosperous and well-loved townsman who left most of his assets to the town when he died. The Tajariòl family—now led by Basilio—lived in a small house located at the back of the town hall (the same house would later be transformed into scuolùtis—makeshift classrooms). Later, their financial condition reestablished, they were able to buy or build their own house, dividing the patriarchal family into different branches. Unlike the Petrises, the branches do not seem to have acquired nicknames. Vincenzo and Sebastiano were not with the family in Zoppola, so either they did not survive childhood or had set out on their own earlier.
Pierina died on September 4, 1896, in Zoppola. She was 68 years old. In December of that year, Basilio and his branch moved to Malnisio, near Montereale Valcellina. Unfortunately, he drowned there a few days later. His widow moved the family back to Zoppola where she went back into sharecropping, living in via Cusano (later known as via C. Panciera) and then in via Risi until her death in 1943.
Unfortunately, nothing other than the above information is known about the Domenico Tajariòl and Pierina Marson. All knowledge of who they were as people or what their hopes and dreams might have been have faded over time. They are among the many ancestors for whom we only have names and dates. They are still among the reasons we are here and are who we are. They deserve to be remembered.
As a final note, other members of the Taiariol stayed in or moved back to Azzano Decimo. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII invites Catholics to take the problems of the weaker classes to heart. According to Guiseppe Bariviera (the town historian for Azzano),
The spokesperson, once again, is a priest, the parish priest Don Domenico Fabrici. "When the Catholic Movement became the continuer of the work begun by Wollemborg, the archpriest of Azzano Decimo, Don Domenico Fabrici, also promoted the establishment of a Cassa (bank) at the parish of San Pietro Apostolo in Azzano, after probably having begun to operate already the year before in an informal way, as some testimonies indicate.” The founding members met in the Municipal Office where, in the presence of the notary, they declared, as stated in the deed of incorporation, that they wanted to set up “a general partnership under the name Cassa Rurale dei Prestiti S. Pietro Apostolo (Rural Savings and Loans of St Peter the Apostle), a cooperative company in a collective name. The purpose of the company is to improve the moral and material condition of its shareholders, providing them with the necessary money, in the ways determined by the statute.”
Among the founding members was a Marco Taiariol. Domenico and Pietra’s great grandson John Quattrin would have been very proud.