1. Name taken from her daughter Filomena's birth and marriage records.
2. Maria's birth certificate was found on Cercepicola microfiche
# 1386976.
3. Translated excerpts from Maria's Birth certificate:
The year 1813 on the 8th of the month of May at the hour 23 in
front of me Michelangelo Mastropietro mayor, and official of the
civil state of Cercepicola province of Molise was presented
Donato TATO of age 20 years of the profession stone cutter
domiciled in this comune and has declared that at 6th of the
above listed month at the hour of 15:00 was born in his own house
to him and his legitimate wife, Antonia Testa, of 21 years old
a girl child to whom they have given the name of Maria Carolina.