Candlestick - Theresa Prestomburgo

Hello!

About a week ago I bought these two candlesticks very special.
I was told that they come from a nunnery presumably in Arezzo (Italy) recovered during the evacuation of the same convent.
Some of you can kindly give me some more news, unfortunately I could not find anything like it.

PS : I found on the internet this census about Prestomburgo : http://newyork-genealogy.com/Kings-County/P/Prestomburgo.htm and I found many similar altar candlesticks, writing on google : Altar Candlesticks Adjustable Arms.

Thanks to all.

 

I saw your question about these sticks a few weeks ago on eBay but did not have anything more to add.

I just did some searching on Ancestry.com and found that same family in 1940. Theresa was born in the US but her husband Vincent was born in Italy. Unfortunately I could not find an immigration record for him, although he did become a US citizen in 1945.

I could not find a marriage for them either, but I suspect that given her birth year of 1916 and the year of birth of their first child in 1936, that they married about 1935. Vincent does not appear in the 1930 Census, so he must have come to the US after that date.

I found a death record for Vincent (whose full name was Santino Vincent Prestomburgo) that shows a birth date of January 29, 1906 and a death date in 1990. He stayed in Brooklyn for the rest of his life after arriving.

I could not find a death record for Theresa (which tells me that she probably died before 1960.) Since I do not know her maiden name, it is impossible to find out whether her own family had a connection to that convent in Arezzo.

Do you know when that convent was "evacuated" and why?

 

Thanks for the research done.

The monastery must have been evacuated a few years ago, this is what I know. The cause is the inaccessibility and collapses of walls and foundations, only to be restored (?)

Many things have been unfortunately lost, other fortunately bought and saved.

I found something similar candlesticks on religious websites, all produced very recently.