Magaddino family

Magaddino family Magadinno Magadino Maggadino (record and clerical variants)
Sicilian and Italian-American blood family
Stefano Magaddino at a 1959 crime-commission hearing; his criminal career does not characterize every family member
Country	Italy United States
Current region	Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily Brooklyn, New York Buffalo–Niagara Falls, New York
Place of origin	Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, Sicily
Members	Pietro Magaddino (c. 1823–1880) Carmela Magaddino (born c. 1860) Giovanni Magaddino (born 1857) Pietro Magaddino (1883–1916) Stefano Magaddino (1891–1974) Antonino “Nino” Magaddino (1897–1971)
Connected members	Joseph Bonanno (Stefano's first cousin once removed)
Connected 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.

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.

Carmela's brother Giovanni Magaddino married Giuseppa Ciaravino in 1882. 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. 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, the Bonventres, Bonannos and DiGregorios. 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 leader of the Buffalo crime family in western New York. He was arrested after Bartolo Fontana accused him in the 1921 Good Killers case, then released when the evidence was judged insufficient.
• 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.
• 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.

Relationship to criminal organizations

Individual Magaddinos overlapped with the Good Killers case, the 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.