User:Based American1776

Italian-American

Born in Mirano, Veneto.

My passions are History, Culture and Politics, along with Theology.

I'm studying Law in Mestre, Italy.

My mother is American from (mainly) the states of Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Florida, but our ancestors were also from Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Arizona.

She is of mainly Irish ancestry but also with English, Scottish, German, Dutch and Spanish roots.

She's mainly from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sarasota, Florida and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Politically I'm a Moderate/Conservative Republican and I'm a Populist. I oppose cuts to Medicare or to Social Security, I support lower taxes and I'm socially conservative.

I'm a Rugby player and also a Football fan and my favorite teams are the the Cowboys, the Titans. I'm also a soccer fan and I cheer for AC Milan and Arsenal FC.

I'm appassionate in American History, especially Civil War and Revolutionary War.

I'm a Roman Catholic and I was born and raised as it.

My father is a local Rugby Coach and was the Head Coach for 4 years. His mother is Italian and his father was Scottish and German. He has a terrain in the Lower Highlands from his father that died in 2018. Until 2019, we had a movie rental shop in Munich and Mirano, that closed after the death of my grandfather. He's the coach of Jesolo Rugby and played for Mirano Rugby.

I speak Italian, English and a bit of French and Spanish and I want to learn Irish Gaelic, Dutch and German.

My ancestors (from my mother's side) emigrated from England and Scotland in the 1620s to Plymouth, Massachusetts. They were mainly Puritans, with some English Catholics that follow them. They lived in Massachusetts until the American Revolution, when most of the family emigrated both North and South: my mainly family emigrated to Philadelphia, with other relatives to Indiana and Illinois. Meanwhile, the others in the South emigrated in: Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina until 1812, when they emigrated to Florida to fight in the Patriot War. I've a lot of relatives and ancestors mainly from Tennessee and Virginia.

My mainly family branch arrived in Philadelphia after the Boston Tea Party and then emigrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Here they mixed themselves with native Pennsylvanians and mainly Irish and German Catholics of Lancaster.

My ancestors were Patriots during the Revolutionary War and they fought in the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Lines. During the first years of the war, most of my relatives that remained in Massachusetts emigrated in the South and they mainly settled in Virginia and Tennessee with some in North Carolina. Here, they mixed with local slaveowners families. The exception for that was in Tennessee, because they settled in Knoxville, East Tennessee, where there wasn't need for slaves.

In 1820, from Philadelphia some of my relatives emigrated to Indianapolis and others to Chicago, Springfield and later to Wichita.

During the 1840s, the family that was mainly Scottish and English was influenced by the Irish and German immigration, especially in Pennsylvania & in Texas, where they emigrated from Tennessee and from Prussia. My mainly Irish family emigrated from Cork, Ireland, to Boston during the 40s, but they left the city after some discriminations and went firstly to New York and finally to Philadelphia, where they met the original branch of the family. This created some tensions in my family, because the new Irish Branch was Roman Catholic while the Old Anglo-Saxon branch was Protestant, but my mainly ancestor decided to married an Irish Catholic woman and their son, a my direct ancestor, fought in the Civil War. From then until now, Irish and German Catholics influenced the Original Branch and now most of my family is Roman Catholic.

During the American Civil War, my ancestors were predominantly Unionists, especially in Tennessee and Virginia. My mainly ancestors fought in the 69th Pennsylvania and my closest ancestor was John Barrett, Company F, that came from Lancaster to Philadelphia to join the Pennsylvania Irish Brigade. My Virginian ancestors were enlisted in the West Virginians regiments while my Texan ancestors fought in the Texan Brigade. My Texan-German ancestors were obligated to escape from the Fredericksburg area to the Forth Worth-Dallas area because of discrimination.

After the war, John returned to Lancaster and married a Bavarian Catholic woman.

After Reconstruction, half of my ancestors from Texas, Florida, Virginia and Tennessee emigrated to Italy after the destruction of their economy by the Civil War and they settled to Bagheria, Sicily.

They were followed by my ancestors from Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.

During the Second World War, my great grandfather fought in the Italian Army, because he was the first born in Italy. After being captured by the British in Africa, he went to England and joined the American Army: he fought at Omaha, Normandy. After some weeks, he was captured in France by the Nazis and was sent to Mauthausen.He survived and returned to Padua, Italy, where the family emigrated during the war.

All my relatives and ancestors are from these cities, as I know: Lancaster (PA), Philadelphia (PA) Indianapolis (IN), Sarasota (FL), Plymouth (MA), Chicago (IL), Denton (TX), Annapolis (MD), Virginia Beach (VA), Wilmington (NC), Knoxville (TN), Springfield (MO), Wichita (KS), Phoenix (AZ).