BIRTH REGISTRATION: Valva, Salerno Province, Italy, Stato Civile Nati [Birth Register] 1857, FHL DGS 101060604, image 7, for FREDA, Amodio Giuseppe Maria, # 4, says he was born January 21, 1857. The name of his father is stated to be Giacomo Freda, son of Ferdinando, and the name of his mother is stated to be Angela Maria Spiotta.
NOTE: The birth date on his Death Certificate is in error. The names of his parents are correctly stated to be Giacomo Freda and Angela Maria Spiotta.
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1910 Cen 77 Clay Street, Newark, NJ (listed as Fredo AMODE) w/ 2 sons
1910 Dir 77 Clay Street, Newark, NJ (listed as Freda AMODIO)
1911 Dir 77 Clay Street, Newark, NJ (listed as Freda AMODIO)
1913 Dir removed to Jersey City (listed as Freda AMODIO) Amodio Freda returned to Italy around 1913 because his son, Alfonso Freda, says that his father is his closest relative in Italy when Alfonso Freda arrived in the U.S. in 1913.
1920 Dir NOT LISTED
1923 Dir 280-1/2 Garside Street, Newark, NJ

Amodio Freda's occupation was listed in the 1910 Census as the proprietor of a shoe shop and in the 1910 and 1911 Newark City Directories as a shoemaker.

Amodio Freda returned to Italy about 1913 and left his 3 sons (Giacomo, Guerino, and Alfonso) in the United States with their maternal uncle, Ferdinando Alfano. Amodio Freda, his son, Michele, his three daughters Angelina, Loretta and Caterina, and his wife, Antonia Alfano, arrived in the United States on board the Cretic docking in Boston on February 28, 1921. The passenger list says they were going to Newark, New York (sic) to join their son, Alfonso Freda, who lived at 20-22 Boyden Street, Newark, New York (sic). Their nearest relative in Valva was listed as the children's maternal grandmother, Loreta D'Ambrosio.

The Altieri, Quaresima and Freda Families in Princeton (Including Their Kin in Philadelphia, South Jersey, Newark, Massachusetts & Italy), 2020.