Mac Allen
Charles McAllen was born in Ireland, leaving for America at age seventeen. For a time he lived in Weehawken, New Jersey and worked in feed and grain futures. His brother, John, coincidentally was also working in feed and grain, marrying a wealthy widow of a ranch on the Texas and Mexico border.
In 1922 Charles moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey where two generations would live. His daughter, Ruth, remained in town. His son, Wilbur moved to Glen Rock, a borough cut from Ridgewood in 1894. He alterd the name to Mac Allen to sound more Scottish rather than Irish. The local newspapers reported on a road trip he and a buddy took to Michigan. Wilbur was also struck with food poisoning when the cafeteria at Dun & Bradstreet served bad egg salad, sickening the whole office.
Wilbur's daughter, Carol Ann, eventually moved into the Glen Rock home, leaving in the early 2000s to travel the country before settling outside of Orlando, Florida. Wilbur's son, Tom Mac Allen, moved to Ringwood, New Jersey with his wife, Arlene Mac Allen where they raised Ian and his brother Garret.
Below is a family tree
Vitale Di Tullio emmigrated from the hilltop village of Bagnoli del Trigno. He arrived in the United States near the end of the great wave of Italian immigration. More than 4 million Italians emigrated, mostly from the mezzogiorno, the area of Italy generally thought of as south of Rome.
When the Di Tullio and Di Tosto families departed Bagnoli, it was then part of Abrruzo, known as Abruzzi e Molise. In 1963, Molise became its own province. The population now numbers abhout 700, but at the time of the great migration, Bagnoli experienced signifcant depopulation with thousnds of migrants settling in enclaves in North America including Clifton, New Jersey, Vancouver, Canada, and Youngstown, Ohio, among others.
Vitale's son, Gino, emmigrated from Italy just in time to avoid conscription into Mussolini's army. He would have avoided World War II entirely had he not walked into the draft office to ask why he hadn't been called up. His draft card had fallen underneath the card catalogue. A week later, the draft notice arrived. He shipped off to Europe spending time in Cologne, Germany, and liberating concentration camps. He smuggled photographs of the camps out of Europe.
Home from the war, he married Carmnella Nicolosi, one of four sisters. With a shortage of wedding venues, Carmella shared her wedding day wtih her siste, Juliette, who married Nick Riciputo, of Syracuse, New York. Gino worked as a union tailer manufacturing clothing in Paterson, New Jersey. He sewed sleeves, one of the more complicated assemblyline tasks. He adn Carmella had one daughter, Arlene.
On the patrilenear side, a contingent of the DiTullio family remained in Italy, marrying into the Massullo family, another sprawling dynasty from Bagnoli del Trigno. The family now largely lives in the suburbs of Rome, retaining the historic family properties in Bagnoli as a holiday retreat. During his final trip back to Italy, at the age of 80, Gino and his cousin Alberto, bottled more than 150 bottles of wine over two days. They siphoned the wine from aging jugs into the bottles by sipping small amounts of wine to begin the siphon, a task that is impossible to complete without also injesting small amounts of wine.
Elsa and Alberto are the parents of Italian Pentatholon medalist Carlo Massullo.
The Di Tosto family also originated in Bagnoli del Trigno, arriving in the United States about the same time as the DiTullio family, and settling nearby in northern New Jersey. Leo DiTosto and Gino DiTullio grew up as pals and regularly kept in contact until they became immobilized by age.
The Nicolosi side of the family arrived in the United States somewhat earlier, originating in and around Palermo. "Strega Nonna" was known to lead the coven of witches and cast the evil on enemies. The Amodio side originated in the area around Naples and some members of the family remained behind when the rest of the family emigrated.
