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MY NAPOLITANO SURNAME ORIGINATES FROM A SMALL TOWN IN ITALY 'SAN MARCO IN LAMIS' PROVINCE OF FOGGIA,PUGLIA,ITALY.MY GRANDFATHER WAS GABRIELE NAPOLITANO WHO WAS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK AND WAS GIVEN THIS NAME AS HIS FATHER WAS NOT KNOWN, I PRESUME THIS WAS HIS MOTHERS SURNAME...I AM TOLD THAT HIS FATHERS SURNAME MAY HAVE BEEN 'VILLANI'.THAT IS ALL THE INFO I CAN GIVE AT THIS TIME.HE WAS BORN IN SAN MARCO IN LAMIS ON DECEMBER 1,1896 AND DIED THERE ON JANUARY 15,1983, HE MARRIED MARIA CARMELA LIMOSANI CIRCA 1923, THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN,RACHELE,ANGELO,MELANINA,MARIO MATTEO CARMINE(MY FATHER)AND MICHELE, ALL WERE BORN IN SAN MARCO IN LAMIS AND HAD THE NAPOLITANO SURNAME. MY FATHER EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA IN 1950 AND THE NAPOLITANO NAME HAS FLOURISHED THERE.