MACINANTE, ANTHONY

ML MSS 5288 Add-on 1969

COPYING FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES IS PERMITTED. HOWEVER, COPYING FOR PUBLICATION IS RESTRICTED WITHOUT ANTHONY MACINANTE'S PERMISSION

MS. and photograph,
3 volumes in 1 box; O.17m.

Presented by Anthony Macinante in 1992

Anthony Macinante was born in Sydney in 1915, the eldest son of Amelio Macinante, market gardener, and his wife, Mary Anna, née Archer, and grew up around Erina and Gosford on the Central Coast of NSW. He worked with his father at the Sydney Fruit Markets during the Depression, and then became a merchant seaman. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 2nd AIF, was posted as a trooper to 'C' Squadron of the 2/7 Australian Cavalry Regiment, and embarked for Egypt and the Middle East. His second tour of duty exposed him to the horrors of jungle warfare and malaria in New Guinea. His regiment dissolved, he joined the 2/5 Field Company Royal Australian Engineers and served in Borneo. Discharged in 1945, he married Jean Harivel a year later. Macinante re-entered the workforce as a welder, and was a fireman and engine driver at Balmain Power House, 1949-1962. He later worked for Union Carbide, Rhodes, 1963-1965, and F.J. Walker Ltd Waterside Cold Stores, Pyrmont, 1965-1980. An active trade unionist, Macinante was a delegate for the Federated Ironworkers' Association and the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association. He contributed to the improvement of awards and conditions, and the establishment of shop committees, in various workplaces.

MACINANTE FAMILY, CANDIDO MACINANTE

ML MSS 5288 Add-on 1968

Papers and photographs, 1863-1924, 1950, 1989
In English and Italian

Photocopies, printed and photographs
1 box 0.17m.

Presented by Ann Cuddy, née Macinante, in 1990 and her brother, Joseph A. Macinante, in 1992

Candido Vittorio Macinante (1888-1962) was born in Salerno, Campania. At the age of 12 he accompanied his elder brothers to Glasgow, Scotland, where he worked in their hairdressing and tobacconist shop. He migrated to Australia in 1908 and was naturalised in 1926. In Sydney in 1914 he married Olivia Farrell, daughter of John Farrell, writer and regular contributor to The Bulletin. The couple then went to Narrandera, NSW, where Candido set up business and traded as 'Candid Mac'. Their four children, Salvatore, Anastasia, Joseph and Millison were born in the town. The Macinante family moved to Sydney in 1920. Candido was fluent in English and read widely. Mechanically adept, one of his passions was building crystal wireless sets.

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	I. CANDIDO MACINANTE
1908	Letter received from his employer, John Lamont, Glasgow, Scotland, 1 May 1908. Photocopy of MS
1900-1918	Certificates of his Italian primary school exam results, 1900; medical unsuitability for military service issued by the Royal Italian Consul for Australasia, Melbourne, 1918; marriage to Olivia Farrell, Petersham, NSW, 1914, being a photocopy; and naturalisation, 1926, being a photocopy
1903, 1908	Italian passports (2)
Between 1903-1908	Business card Macinante Brothers, Hairdressers. 22 Cambridge, Glasgow
1908	Passengers' contract ticket for sea voyage issued to Francesco Erbetto from Naples to Fremantle, Adelaide and Melbourne, Australia
	Printed Books
	Being mainly Italian language books, including primary school textbooks and technical manuals, brought to Australia, or ordered from Italy, by Candido Macinante A. Spinelli D'Agro. Regole di aritmetica pratica e noziotii di geometria intuitiva per la 5a classe elementare maschile femminile. Palermo: Salvatore Biondo, 1894? G. A. Del Medico (ed). The pictorial Italian course (with pictures, descriptions, conversations and grammar). London: The Modern Language Press Ltd. 1912 Raffaello Fornaciart. Grammatica italiana dell 'uso moderno competidiaia e accomodata per le scuole. Pane 1 Etimologia. Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1884 Pietro Gambera. Compendio di geometria di tnigonometria ad uso delle scuole liceali e techniche. Volume primo. Torino : Stamperia dell'unione tipografico - editrice, 1865 Ing. I. Ghersi. 500 giochi semplici, dilettevoli, difisica, chimica, pazietza e abilita — esequibili infamiglia — con 520 incisioni intercalate nel testo. Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1900 Ezio Giorli. Ilmeccanico ad tiso dci capi iechnici rnacchinisti, elettricisti, disegnatori, assistenti. ... Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1904 Carolina Invernizio. Ilbacio d 'una morta. Firenze: Adriano Salani, 1923 Jenkin Fleeming. Elettricità [tradotto dat Rinaldo Ferrini]. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906 Vincenzo Leitenitz. Grammatica ad uso delle scuole techniche: contenente i precetti grammaticali dell 'idioma francese messi afronte di quella della lingua italiana. Napoli : [L'autore?], 1888 Raffaele Napoli. Prontuario di chimica elementare moderna. Pane seconda. Napoli : Vincenzo Pasquale, 1868 Antonino Parato. La storia d 'italia dei tempi antichi, di mezzo e moderni esposta per biografie ai giovinetui. Parte 1 - storia romana. Torino : G.B. Paravia, 1887 D.B. Roscio. Nozioni di aritmetica di sistema metrico-decimale e di geomelnia... per le classi 2a, 3a e 4a dellc scuole elementari primarie. Torino: Sebastiano Franco e Figti, 1864 Giovanni Scavia. Nozioni di fisca popolare con un breve epilogo ad uso delle scuole primarie. Torino : Grato Scioldo, 1863 Giuseppe A. Silvestri. Manuale di ginnastica educativa ad uso delle scuole elementari maschili del regno. Torino : [L'autore?], 1879? Maria Cavanna Viani Visconti. Note ed esercizi per / 'insegnamento della geografia e cosmografia nella 3a, 4a, 5a, classe elementare. Roma: Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1899
	II. OLIVIA MACINANTE, née FARRELL
1912	Birth certificate (b. 28 May 1883). Photocopy of extract copy
	III. PHOTOGRAPHS, 1915-1924, 1950, 1989
	Black and white, sepia and colour photographs (5), of Olivia Macinante and her son, Tore, in the front yard of their home at Narrandera, NSW, 1915; Tore Macinante and his sister, Anastasia, in costume, collecting on War Chest Day, 1917; family portrait, 1924; Candido and his brother, Antonino Macinante, c. 1950; the children of Candido and Olivia Macinante: Ann Cuddy, Joseph A. Macinante, Millison Beatson and Tore Macinante, 1989

MACINANTE FAMILY, SALVATORE MACINANTE

ML MSS 5288 Add-on 1967

Papers and photographs, 1911-1950, 1970, 1991 Mainly in Italian

MS., typescript, carbon typescript, printed and photographs 1 box; 0.17m.

Presented by Elettra Pallanza, née Macinante, in 1990 and 1991

Salvatore Macinante (1848-1914) was a schoolteacher in Salerno, south of Naples, before arriving in Australia in 1912. Salvatore's wife, Anastasia, née Balbo, and the remaining family followed later. His four eldest sons, Giuseppe, Amelio, Antonio and Candido, left Italy for Scotland around 1903 and migrated to Australia in 1908. Antonino, a younger son, arrived in Sydney in 1909. As a reservist he was repatriated to serve in the Italian Army during World War I. Discharged in 1919, he married Carmela Grimaldi and returned to Australia in the following year. He became a grocer and shopkeeper in Sydney.

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