https://www.stjohnshoxton.org.uk/
It is October 22, 1860 and Lucy Iles and Cristoforo Setacci are being wed a St John the Baptist Church Hoxton in north east London. As you can see above the Church still exists and is worth a visit to see where your 4th greats were married. St John the Baptist Church, of the Church of England still has an active congregation as you will see if you check out their website via the link above. Cristoforo is from Recanati, Italy. His father’s name is Saviero. Cristoforo is in his mid 30s at the time. He lists his occupation as a Cabinet Maker. Lucy Iles is younger, in her early 2os, and from Thornbury England, just north of Bristol. Sadly Lucy’s father Daniel Iles passed away in his 50s and is not there to witness the wedding of his daughter. Both the bride and groom give their current address as Lucan Place in Chelsea. Is that where they met? Much of this information comes from the document shown below. We aren’t told how old they are, only that they are of ” Full Age.” This I assume means that they were definitely old enough to tie the knot.
It is interesting to note that Cristoforo and Lucy were not married in a Catholic church. I guess this isn’t all that surprising. One can’t blame a young man who was exiled from his home country due to the return of the Pope and the Catholic Church to Rome for not wanting to be married in that Pope’s Catholic Church. We can very well understand why he would choose the Church of England instead. Maybe I am reading too much into this? But I don’tthink so – the Setacci’s – despite Cristoforo’s roots in a Papal State in the Italian Peninsula, chose the Church of England for all their family ceremonies from this point forward.
It is also interesting to wonder about how Lucy and Cristoforo communicated. I assume Cristoforo’s English had become vey good by the time of the Wedding. But, how did it get that good? My guess is young Lucy Iles would have been very instrumental in Cristoforo learning how to speak English.
One also has to wonder: Did any of Cristoforo’s family from back in Recanati attend the wedding? Did Cristoforo keep in touch with people and family back in Italy? Did he ever go back? Would he and Lucy ever have made a trip to Recanati to see the unified Italy Cristoforo had dreamed about ?