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	==Migration and notable individuals==		==Migration and notable individuals==
	The family originated in Castellammare del Golfo, while later households and individuals settled in Williamsburg and western New York. Kinship and birthplace ties linked particular Magaddinos with the [[Castellammaresi network (New York City)\|Castellammaresi network]], the [[Bonventre family\|Bonventres]], Bonannos and DiGregorios.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 214–230.</ref> Those ties do not establish Mafia membership for relatives as a class.		The family originated in Castellammare del Golfo, while later households and individuals settled in Williamsburg and western New York. Kinship and birthplace ties linked particular Magaddinos with the [[Castellammaresi network (New York City)\|Castellammaresi network]], the [[Bonventre family\|Bonventres]], Bonannos and DiGregorios.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 214–230.</ref> Those ties do not establish Mafia membership for relatives as a class. Stefano's later leadership of the [[Buffalo crime family]] concerned a criminal borgata, not the genealogical Magaddino family as a whole.

	* '''Stefano Magaddino''' was identified by historians and law enforcement as ~~a Mafia~~ leader in western New York. He was arrested after Bartolo Fontana accused him in the 1921 [[Good Killers Gang\|Good Killers]] case, then released when the evidence was judged insufficient.<ref name="GoodKillers">Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona, [https://mafiahistory.us/a014/f_goodkillers.html “The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia”].</ref>		* '''Stefano Magaddino''' was identified by historians and law enforcement as leader of the [[Buffalo crime family]] in western New York. He was arrested after Bartolo Fontana accused him in the 1921 [[Good Killers Gang\|Good Killers]] case, then released when the evidence was judged insufficient.<ref name="GoodKillers">Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona, [https://mafiahistory.us/a014/f_goodkillers.html “The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia”].</ref>
	* '''Antonino “Nino” Magaddino''' was arrested in Sicily on a homicide allegation in 1916 and later released; that allegation was not a conviction. Later sources associated him with the Buffalo organization.<ref name="Critchley" />		* '''Antonino “Nino” Magaddino''' was arrested in Sicily on a homicide allegation in 1916 and later released; that allegation was not a conviction. Later sources associated him with the Buffalo organization.<ref name="Critchley" />
	* '''Pietro Magaddino''' was killed in Sicily in 1916. His death was cited as a claimed motive in the later Caiozzo vendetta, but the reviewed civil and historical records do not independently establish him as a mafioso.<ref name="GoodKillers" />		* '''Pietro Magaddino''' was killed in Sicily in 1916. His death was cited as a claimed motive in the later Caiozzo vendetta, but the reviewed civil and historical records do not independently establish him as a mafioso.<ref name="GoodKillers" />

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{{SHORTDESC:Sicilian and Italian-American blood family from Castellammare del Golfo}}
{{Infobox family
| surname = Magaddino family
| other_names = Magadinno Magadino Maggadino {{small|(record and clerical variants)}}
| type = Sicilian and Italian-American blood family
| image = Stefano Magaddino by Walter Albertin 1959.jpg
| alt2 = 1959 photograph of Stefano Magaddino
| caption2 = Stefano Magaddino at a 1959 crime-commission hearing; his criminal career does not characterize every family member
| country = Italy United States
| region = Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily Brooklyn, New York Buffalo–Niagara Falls, New York
| origin = Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily
| members = Pietro Magaddino {{small|(c. 1823–1880)}} Carmela Magaddino {{small|(born c. 1860)}} Giovanni Magaddino {{small|(born 1857)}} Pietro Magaddino {{small|(1883–1916)}} Stefano Magaddino {{small|(1891–1974)}} Antonino “Nino” Magaddino {{small|(1897–1971)}}
| connected_members = Joseph Bonanno {{small|(Stefano's first cousin once removed)}}
| other_families = [[Bonventre family]] Bonanno family Buccellato family Ciaravino family Caroddo family DiGregorio family
| distinctions = Several individual members participated in Castellammarese migration and Mafia networks; the family itself was not a criminal organization
}}

The '''Magaddino family''' is a Sicilian and Italian-American blood family originating in Castellammare del Golfo. The preferred spelling is '''Magaddino''', as recorded in Stefano Magaddino's Sicilian birth act. ''Magadinno'', ''Magadino'' and the user-supplied ''Maggadino'' occur as clerical or record variants and are retained as redirects.<ref name="StefanoBirth">[https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16107890/LepdabR Castellammare del Golfo civil birth act no. 668], October 1891.</ref>

Several individual Magaddinos became involved in Castellammarese Mafia networks, but the blood family was not itself a crime family, gang or criminal corporation.

==Documented family line==
The documented nineteenth-century line begins with '''Pietro Magaddino''' (approximately 1823–1880) and '''Arcangela or Angela Ancona''' (born approximately 1830). Their children included Carmela and Giovanni Magaddino.

Carmela Magaddino married Martino Bonventre on July 14, 1876. Their daughter Caterina Bonventre later married Salvatore Bonanno and became the mother of Joseph Bonanno.<ref name="BonventreMarriage">[https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16101093/wQqZ76l Castellammare del Golfo civil marriage act no. 66], July 14, 1876.</ref><ref>[https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16107858/LpXjqyE Castellammare del Golfo civil birth act no. 174], March 1883.</ref>

Carmela's brother Giovanni Magaddino married Giuseppa Ciaravino in 1882.<ref>[https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16101107/037eEoY Castellammare del Golfo civil marriage act no. 129], December 16, 1882.</ref> Their children included Pietro, Gaspare, Stefano, Antonino and Maria Magaddino. Because Carmela was Joseph Bonanno's maternal grandmother and Giovanni was Stefano's father, Stefano Magaddino was Joseph Bonanno's '''first cousin once removed''', although sources often shorten the relationship to “cousin.”

Pietro Magaddino (1883–1916), Giovanni's son, married Anna Buccellato in 1912.<ref>[https://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/ark:/12657/an_ua16101042/wkEVN6B Castellammare del Golfo civil marriage record], January 29, 1912.</ref> That marriage is important evidence that blood and marital relationships could cross the factional boundaries emphasized in later feud narratives.

==Migration and notable individuals==
The family originated in Castellammare del Golfo, while later households and individuals settled in Williamsburg and western New York. Kinship and birthplace ties linked particular Magaddinos with the [[Castellammaresi network (New York City)|Castellammaresi network]], the [[Bonventre family|Bonventres]], Bonannos and DiGregorios.<ref name="Critchley">David Critchley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2eCPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 ''The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891–1931''] (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 214–230.</ref> Those ties do not establish Mafia membership for relatives as a class.

* '''Stefano Magaddino''' was identified by historians and law enforcement as a Mafia leader in western New York. He was arrested after Bartolo Fontana accused him in the 1921 [[Good Killers Gang|Good Killers]] case, then released when the evidence was judged insufficient.<ref name="GoodKillers">Thomas Hunt and Michael A. Tona, [https://mafiahistory.us/a014/f_goodkillers.html “The Good Killers: 1921's Glimpse of the Mafia”].</ref>
* '''Antonino “Nino” Magaddino''' was arrested in Sicily on a homicide allegation in 1916 and later released; that allegation was not a conviction. Later sources associated him with the Buffalo organization.<ref name="Critchley" />
* '''Pietro Magaddino''' was killed in Sicily in 1916. His death was cited as a claimed motive in the later Caiozzo vendetta, but the reviewed civil and historical records do not independently establish him as a mafioso.<ref name="GoodKillers" />

==Relationship to criminal organizations==
Individual Magaddinos overlapped with the Good Killers case, the [[Schiro crime family|Schiro borgata]] and the later Buffalo Mafia. Those organizations were not formed by the blood family as a corporate unit. Descent from or marriage into the Magaddino family does not establish criminal activity or organizational rank.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Sicilian families]]
[[Category:American families of Italian ancestry]]
[[Category:People from Castellammare del Golfo]]

Magaddino family - Revision history

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