Family Card - Person Sheet
NamePaolo Pietro / Paul Peter Marmai 
Birth25 Sep 1888, Tramonti di Sotto, Italia
Death8 May 1970, Italia
FatherPaolo Casimiro Marmai (1850-1930)
MotherMaria Maddalena Varnerin (1861-1925)
Notes for Paolo Pietro / Paul Peter Marmai
First cousin once removed of Joseph Marmai.
14 may 1911 - Ellis Island - Two versions of the manifest for the same trip - second is a list of detained aliens.
Paul Marmai ( indexed as Marinai ) arriving on LaTouraine from LeHavre, unmarried, a mason, going to Boston, lists no relative in Boston, age 22, son of Paolo Marmai in Tramonti Di Sotto - Detained alien list says Marmai going to join his uncle Gio.Bat. Ferroli, at 173 Magnolia St. Boston. Others from Tramonti on the ship including Santa Bidoli Ferroli and two children joining her husband G.B. at 173 Magnolia St., home of her sister and brother-in-law.
1927 admitted to citizenship in Brooklyn, New York; had filed in Boston in 1920. Says he first came to the US in 1911 and had been in New York since February 1920. Living at 515 3rd Avenue, College Point, Queens County, New York. Birth date given as 27 September.
WW II draft card, 1942, Paul Peter Marmai of Moultonboro, Carroll County, NH, age 53, born 25 Sep 1888 in Spilimbergo, says he is unemployed. Madeline Marmai of 335 Norfolk Ave is person who would always know his whereabouts (cousin Joseph, her husband, had died in 1925).
10 March 1953 arrived in New York having sailed from Genoa, Paul Peter Marmai, unmarried, of Central Harbor, New Hampshire.
“Paul was a stone mason and lived at one time on Norfolk Avenue in Dorchester. He and my grandfather Angelo Feroli were good friends, as they were both masons and came from Tramonti. Paul moved to Moultonborough N.H. to work on the “Castle in the Clouds”. The stone for that building was quarried out of the site in the Ossipee Mountains overlooking Lake Winnepesaukee and all the stone was hexagonal cut and close fitted for the exterior walls. Paul moved to Moultonborough to a stone house he built himself on Mountain Road. He moved to work on the Castle. My father built a place in the same town which we still own. My grandfather and Paul would come visit there often. Paul’s house was very rustic with a plank floor and a hand pump. When I was twelve my father took me to visit Paul’s sisters in Tramonti. Paul went back home to be with them when he was very old.”
Dorothy Berkoben
Castle in the Clouds - “Construction began in the spring, 1913. To complete building rapidly, Tom hired about 1000 workmen. Most were Italian masons from Boston.”
Returned to Tramonti in 1960.
SSDI:
Paul MARMAI
068-01-2257
b. 25 Sep 1888
d. May 1970
last res. XX700 (overseas)
SS# issued in NY
MARMAI PAOLO nato nel 1888 a TRAMONTI DI SOTTO da PAOLO e VARNERIN MARIA
IT/ASUD/LEVA/1888/E.001/SPL/P-297
14 may 1911 - Ellis Island - Two versions of the manifest for the same trip - second is a list of detained aliens.
Paul Marmai ( indexed as Marinai ) arriving on LaTouraine from LeHavre, unmarried, a mason, going to Boston, lists no relative in Boston, age 22, son of Paolo Marmai in Tramonti Di Sotto - Detained alien list says Marmai going to join his uncle Gio.Bat. Ferroli, at 173 Magnolia St. Boston. Others from Tramonti on the ship including Santa Bidoli Ferroli and two children joining her husband G.B. at 173 Magnolia St., home of her sister and brother-in-law.
1927 admitted to citizenship in Brooklyn, New York; had filed in Boston in 1920. Says he first came to the US in 1911 and had been in New York since February 1920. Living at 515 3rd Avenue, College Point, Queens County, New York. Birth date given as 27 September.
WW II draft card, 1942, Paul Peter Marmai of Moultonboro, Carroll County, NH, age 53, born 25 Sep 1888 in Spilimbergo, says he is unemployed. Madeline Marmai of 335 Norfolk Ave is person who would always know his whereabouts (cousin Joseph, her husband, had died in 1925).
10 March 1953 arrived in New York having sailed from Genoa, Paul Peter Marmai, unmarried, of Central Harbor, New Hampshire.
“Paul was a stone mason and lived at one time on Norfolk Avenue in Dorchester. He and my grandfather Angelo Feroli were good friends, as they were both masons and came from Tramonti. Paul moved to Moultonborough N.H. to work on the “Castle in the Clouds”. The stone for that building was quarried out of the site in the Ossipee Mountains overlooking Lake Winnepesaukee and all the stone was hexagonal cut and close fitted for the exterior walls. Paul moved to Moultonborough to a stone house he built himself on Mountain Road. He moved to work on the Castle. My father built a place in the same town which we still own. My grandfather and Paul would come visit there often. Paul’s house was very rustic with a plank floor and a hand pump. When I was twelve my father took me to visit Paul’s sisters in Tramonti. Paul went back home to be with them when he was very old.”
Dorothy Berkoben
Castle in the Clouds - “Construction began in the spring, 1913. To complete building rapidly, Tom hired about 1000 workmen. Most were Italian masons from Boston.”
Returned to Tramonti in 1960.
SSDI:
Paul MARMAI
068-01-2257
b. 25 Sep 1888
d. May 1970
last res. XX700 (overseas)
SS# issued in NY
MARMAI PAOLO nato nel 1888 a TRAMONTI DI SOTTO da PAOLO e VARNERIN MARIA
IT/ASUD/LEVA/1888/E.001/SPL/P-297