In 2002 the project was growing extensively and I began to need some tools, so I created a chronology file for events focused on Livorno. I used both printed sources and the Internet, merging entries and verifying inconsistent dates and events. File includes very different pieces of data and information like: Government changes, population estimates, pestilences, town monuments and buildings’ construction, odd facts… then I added some basic color coding for Government changes (blue), epidemies and natural disasters (red), population changes and stats (green) and some family chronology (light blue) but it’s still pretty much a work in progress. At the end I added a couple more useful chapters for churches, walls and defense structures’ evolution and finally measurement units in use in Tuscany and Livorno. The work is in Italian and I didn’t have time to translate it into English for the moment. I chose to save it in PDF so you will need Acrobat Reader to read it: if you don’t have it just click on the icon on the right to download.
The Chronology file is here: Cronologia di Livorno (last version: v1.2 November 2011)
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This is a wonderful site.
I am interested in the career of Daviso D’Arcot who travelled from Livorno to Ireland on the English ship ‘The Defiant’ in about 1759. Under the name Davis Dukart he practiced as an architect in Ireland and designed some significant public and private buildings.
I would be grateful for any information on this man, particularly before he left Italy for Ireland.
Thank you for writing on the blog. Unfortunately I have never heard this name and it does not appear in my database. It appears also that the name Daviso might be a misspelling?
Apart the fact that he embarked on a ship in Livorno, how else might he be connected to Livorno? This blog and website is especially dedicated to people who have lived in Livorno not just ship passengers.
Thankyou.FRom 1790-1795 is of particular interest to me for the names Cerutti Ceratto. Could you please email me about this time as my maternal ancestor could have gone from Leghorn to Graves End or Southhampton area of England before he married in Tavistock Devon England in 1795.I am in Australia in Melbourne. I suspect the origon to be Torino and then Spain before the rise of Leghorn and Genoa. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Catherine Berg for Creutty Cerutti Ceratto Cerutto