Josefa María Collante

Collateral / not direct ancestor — second wife of Miguel's great-grandfather Evaristo Dante Pezzotti Salterucci. Surfaced via MyHeritage (S-005); not in S-004 GEDCOM.

Marriage

• Spouse: Evaristo Dante Pezzotti Salterucci (b. 7 Apr 1885 Scalea; d. 12 May 1929 La Vega).
• Date and place: unknown. See Evaristo Dante Pezzotti Salterucci for the open question on whether this marriage was before, parallel to, or after his first marriage to Irene Dolores Tejada Guzmán (5 Jun 1915 Salcedo).
• Surname-after-marriage per MyHeritage: Josefa María Pezzotti Salterucci (née Collante) — uses Evaristo's full compound apellido as her married name, following Italian (not Hispanic) convention. Suggests this marriage may have been performed in Italy, or that the underlying record uses Italian conventions.

Children

• Carmen Rosa Pezzotti Collante (later Meek Hoare) — see Carmen Rosa Pezzotti Collante.
• Others unknown.

Open questions

1. When and where did the marriage take place? Critical for Evaristo's life-arc and identifying conflicting / sequential / parallel relationships.
2. Did Josefa survive Evaristo (d. 1929)? If yes, she was a young widow in DR with surviving Pezzotti Collante children — parallel widowhood to Irene Dolores's.
3. Are there descendants in DR today? Carmen Rosa's "Meek Hoare" married name is unusual (Anglo) and would be traceable.
4. Was Josefa Italian or Dominican? Collante's possible origins span both (DR northern Cibao; small clusters in Sicily and Campania; also Portugal). The MyHeritage record-card likely settles this if browsed.
5. Collante back-chain. Per S-005 Carmen Rosa's birth surname is Pezzotti Collante — confirms the Pezzotti × Collante union and follows Hispanic naming. So Josefa is herself a Collante by birth; her own father would be a Collante and her mother a different apellido.

Sources

• S-005 — MyHeritage.it, accessed 24 May 2026.