“If they don't look for us for a large inheritance, at least there are no debts to pay. So, let's wait for Andrea in Seulo, to thank him in person ».
Word of the three brothers, Fausto, Graziano, Mimira Murgia and their cousins, Silverio Murgia and Dino Moi, direct descendants, of Adolfo Murgia, the seulese of the 1884 draft, whom the Trieste collector Andrea was looking for through the website of our newspaper, unionesarda .it, to deliver some documents that belonged to their ancestor and found in an antiques market. The only clue: a photo, place and date of birth, Adolfo Murgia, born in 1884, from Seulo.

In town

It was not easy to find the descendants in Seulo. They are great-grandchildren, children of Adolfo's first cousins; grandfather Salvatore was the brother of Petronilla Murgia, Adolfo's mother. They are 416 years old in five, they all still drive the car. The eldest, Fausto, 91, regularly goes to the garden with his Fiat Panda. They live in Seulo, except Dino Moi, 82, retired from the Navy, transplanted to Rome. "Of Adolfo - they say - we have never heard of and in any case we do not remember anything".

I wash

Adolfo Murgia, stationmaster in Cagliari, was also an infantry soldier; father of Bernardino, born in Milan, student of Economics and Commerce in Rome, member of the Olympic Committee of the National fencing. Their documents, well preserved, inside an envelope, ended up on the counter of a flea market in Trieste, bought by Andrea, a lover of antiques and military relics.
Fallen out of who knows what pockets or forgotten in which drawers, of a world that is still tangible, when you had to walk around to find yourself. For sure, we only know the terminus of the bizarre journey undertaken by some circumstance or error, over a century or so, by these witnesses of paper, ancestors and daily hitches. to find Adolfo's heirs, thanks to a stroke of luck, whose name is Pino Ledda: honorary citizen of Seulo, where he has lived for seven years, he dedicates himself to the demographic and genealogical study of the community. Ledda, has collected a massive amount of data: 25 thousand photographs, recorded one hundred hours of interviews, with the great old men, custodians of the memory of minute history; has reconstructed the genealogies, from 1570 to today, of seventy Seoul families.

Research

Among these, also that of Adolfo's father: Bernardino Murgia, born in 1849 who died in 1928, primary school teacher, to whom the village school was named in the 1960s.
Pino Ledda says: «Bernardino Murgia (senior) was also a licensed phlebotomist, a precious resource for the community then, as today, without a doctor. He self-produced the publication of six pamphlets, focusing on crucial issues of civil coexistence: divorce, justice, the relationship between State and Church, Health, the role of the local administration, even a collection of fairy tales and short stories. In 1882, he married Petronilla Murgia, who bore him four children, the eldest son was Adolfo Sisinnio Armando, born in Seulo, March 5, 1884, died in Cagliari on June 9, 1940, buried in the Bonaria cemetery. Adolfo's brothers were Lavinia, (born in 1885) who died in 1976, widow, by Vincenzo Presti; Torbeno (1887) was mayor of Seulo in the three-year period 1914/1916, who died in Sassari in 1963; Perpetua (1889) married to Gadoni with the landowner Francesco Floris. Adolfo's mother, Petronilla, died of TB in 1900. Adolfo's father, in the same year, in Seulo, married the girl from Cagliari, Pietrina Carta, teacher, from whom, in 1903, he had the fifth daughter, Esilda, half-sister of Adolfo ».

The family tree

The genealogist traces the lineage from the great-grandchildren to the ancestor: "Fausto, Graziano and Mimira Murgia, are sons of Placido (known as Pichireddu), first cousin of Adolfo, as well as son of Salvatore (Pichiri), the brother of Petronilla, the mother of Adolfo ; Placido's two sisters: Mariuccia, was the mother of Dino Moi, and Iolanda, of Silverio Murgia. In the village, the traces of Adolfo resume in 1943. The year in which Maria Osti, now Adolfo's widow, and the children Bernardino and Domenica, to escape the bombings on Cagliari, evacuated to Seulo, welcomed at home by Antonio Moi (Guerfu) father of Lillina, the centenarian who passed away last year, who remembered them very well ».

Paola Mura Ruggiu

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