GIUSEPPE AMADIO was born 1705 in Piedimonte d'Alife by Piedemonte di Matese - 41km north of Caserta, Italy
- He married ISABELLA MALATESTA on 19 Oct 1738
- He married Giovanna Giacoboni on 9 Dec 1759

Giuseppe and Isabella had
ANGELO ANTONIO VENANZIO AMADIO b.1768 in Rome, Italy
- He married DEMENICA LUCIA GERTRUDE SANTAFEDE on 23 June 1790

Angelo and Demenica had
FORTUNATO GIUSEPPE LUIGI (Antonio) AMADIO b.14 Oct 1801 in Rome, Italy.
- He emigrated to England and married twice
- his second wife, ANN MORRIS he married on 31 Aug 1840 in Northampton, England.

Fortunato and Ann had
FORTUNATO ANTONIO AMADIO born 13 Apr 1847 in Castle Ashby, Northampton, England - died 11 August 1885 in Wellington
[of interest: Fortunato is buried in Bolton St Cemetery along with the BLISS family - do you know who they were ??]
- He married FRANCES CAROLINE PHIPPS on 14 May 1866 in Birmingham, England.

Fortunato and Frances had 4 children then emigrated to New Zealand (with the surviving 3 children), sometime between 1876 and 1879

The CHILDREN WERE:
* Henry Antonio Amadio b.1868 - d.1943
- he married Jean Hogarth
- he married Elia Helen Wilson

* Lucy Anne Amadio b.1870 - d.1963
- she married Rob Coltman in 1890

* unknown child Amadio b.1872 - ?

* Albert Fortunato Amadio b.1876 - d.1963 (3 weeks after sister Lucy)
- he married Marie Louise Tarr in 1899
- he married Elizabeth Keen in 1920

They had 4 more children in Wellington:

* Frances Maude Amadio b.1879 - d.1973
- she married William Bowick in 1898

* Samuel Clement Amadio b.1881 - d.1963 (2 months after brother Albert, 3 months after sister Lucy)
- he married Lucy Norman in 1904

* ELEANOR MARGARITTO AMADIO was born 22 April 1883 in Wellington died 19th August 1874
- She married EDWARD STENT on 6 Oct 1908

* Florence May Amadio b.1885 - d.1960
- she married Frank Howie

Edward Stent's parents were
CHARLES STENT and EMMA LYNDS-JACKSON
- Emma was the daughter of the mariner-whaler
JAMES HAYTER one of the first 50 settlers in New Zealand
- He spent the early years on Kapiti Island, Wellington with the Maori chief, Te RAUPARAHA before setting up his own whaling station in Jackson's Bay, Tory Channel, Marlborough, New Zealand

Emma's first husband was John LYNDS - they had 3 children, the first 2 were a set of twins, Thomas and Louisa Lynds
Their third child, William James Lynds, died aged 16 in Jericho, Queensland, Australia, from wounds received in the Boer War

Emma Lynds-Jacksonand her 2nd husband, Charles Stent had 11 children from 1876 to 1896 before they married in 1904,
(1896 was also the year Emma's first husband John Lynd died)

Their last child, Richard Stent b.1896 was killed aged 20 in WW1.

Charles Stent was the 1st child of 8 children to
Charles STENT and Sarah PECK of England.

See all these names and their spouses, ancestors and descendents on
PECK of TAITA