History of the Caprotti and Venosta families

Marianne’s early years

My grandmother Marianne Maire, daughter of Georges Maire, who went from being a clerk to an executive in a textile industry, and Fernande Kampmann, heir to a family tradition in the fine craft of straw hats, met Peppino Caprotti in 1922 as a young student in her hometown. Two years later she married him and together they began their life in Italy.

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Bernardo Caprotti of Giuseppe and contributions for Giuseppe Garibaldi

Bernardo’s irredentist sympathies can be confirmed by the receipt of the Italian Unitarian Association to which, on 16 November 1859, he paid 100 lira to purchase rifles proposed by Giuseppe Garibaldi for the ‘national cause’. The sum, however, while certainly not low, is prudent: only 100 lira. The money, the real money, is destined for business.