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Article: Aspects: Fleeing lovers and thieving ancestors; Midlanders trying to find out more about their ancestors are in the spotlight, Ros Dodd discovers.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2000
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It's more than a century since Maria Scaglione and Guiseppe Saracine risked their lives to run away to England together. In the dead of night, Guiseppe drew up outside Maria's home in the Italian village of San Vittore in a pony and trap.
"Then he whisked Maria out of the bedroom window," relates Lyn Di Mascio Walton, the couple's great great granddaughter. The young lovers fled to Rome, boarded a boat to England and made a new life together in Birmingham.
Now, 113 years later, the couple's daring elopement is to feature in a television series called ...