Birth: 3 January 1917 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Father: Leonardo Duca 1875-1939
Mother: Maria Grazia Matteo 1892-1919
Marriage: 3 May 1940 Seabrook, New Hampshire, USA
Wife: Ivadell (Ivadelle) Helen Erickson [Abatsis] 1920-2009
Marriage: 24 November 1942 Franklin, Ohio, USA
Wife: Bertha Mae Lapier [Armstrong, Duvic] 1926-2001
Marriage: October-December 1945 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Wife: Sylvia Mclaughlin Matthews 1927-2006
Death: 9 July 1982 Hospice of Northern Virginia, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Buried: Section 39 Site 1351, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA
By Sylvia
Angelina Maria Duca [Dunstan, Robinson, Stein] 1946-a1988
Rosemary A Duca [Fincham] 1948-2009
His mother died in 1919.
In the 1920 census as Mauro Duca aged 3, born in Massachusetts, and living with his widowed father (Leo born in Italy), three brothers (Jimmy, John and Joseph) and grandparents (Joseph and Rosa) at 151 Beach Street, Marlborough Ward 3, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
His father married Maria [Spitale] in 1921.
In the 1930 census as Mauro Duca aged 13, born in Massachusetts, and living with his father (Leo born in Italy) and stepmother (Mary born in Italy), three brothers (James, John and Joseph), sister (Rose), half brother (Nicholas Spitale) and half-sister (Josephine Spitale) at 151 Beach Street, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Entry in Albany Democrat-Herald Albany, Oregon 19 May 1938 Page 8 "Maple is still holding Stew Fredericks, who captured the fans' fancy last Sunday in finishing against Toledo, and Mauro Duca, who started Sunday, in reserve, along with young Kolb of Jefferson, who also shows much promise. "
In the 1940 census as Mauro Duca aged 23, born in Massachusetts, single, a laborer in a water ?, worked 52 weeks in previous year income $295, and living with his brother (Joseph), sister-in-law (Evelyn), nephew (Paul) and brother (John) at 46 Arnold Street, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Entry in Ancestry Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy in America, Membership Applications, 1925-1955 for Mauro Paul Duca born on 3 January 1917 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, father Leonardo Duca dated 28 January 1941.
Entry in Ancestry New Hampshire, Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947 for Mauro Paul Duca aged 23, born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, of 46 Arnold, Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts, single, a truck driver, parents Leonard aged 68, born in Italy, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a baker and dead, and Mary Duca aged 55, born in Italy, maiden name unknown, and a housewife and dead, and Ivadell Helen Erickson aged 19 of 70 Chandler, Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts, single, an inspector, parents Arthur E Erickson aged 75, born in Orage, Massachusetts, of Marlboro, Massachusetts, and a government ?, and Ida L Berdger, aged 39, born in East Parsonfield, Maine, a housewife and living in Martlboro, Massachusetts, on 3 May 1940 in Seabrook, Rockingham.
His wife married Anthony Charles Abatsis on 12 January 1942 in Nashua, New Hampshire at which time she was divorced.
Entry in Ancestry Ohio, County Marriages, 1774-1993 for Mauro Duca aged 25, birthday 3 January, born in Marlbor, Massachusetts, a soldier in US Army, previously married once, parents Leonard and Mary Duca, and Bertha La Pier aged 21, birthday 31 March, born in Anniston, Alabama, father John La Pier, mother Mattie Cristopher, and not previously married, on 24 November 1942 in Franklin, Ohio.
Entry in In Honor of our Fallen Hero
Entry in American Air Museum in Britain
Entry in Ancestry All U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 for Mauro P Duca employee at MWG&Co address 151 Beach, Beach, Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1941 - he was renting it together with Joseph (his brother), it being owned by John (his brother).
Marriage of Mauro P Duca and Sylvia M Matthews in FreeBMD in October-December 1945 in Cambridge (3b 1480).
His two daughters were born in Cambridge in 1946 and 1948.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1914-1966 for Mauro Duca born in Marlboro Massachusetts, departed on 6 August 1954 from New York on Olympia for Southampton.
Three entries in Ancestry All U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 for Mauro P Duca addresses 151 Beach, Marlborough, Massachusetts, an employee at MWGCo, spouse Sylvia Duca in 1947, other occupants Joseph and Evelyn Duca (brother and sister-in-law?), 2335 Drake, Richmond, Virginia, US Army, spouse Sylvia M Duca in 1953, and 4105 Fort blvd apt 4 El Paso, Texas, USA in 1960, and entry for Mauro Duca in USA address 151 Beach, Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1957 renting it with his brother Joseph.
Entry in Ancestry Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014 for Mauro P Duca born 3 January 1917 in Massachusetts, parents Leonardo Duca and Maria Matteo, spouse Sylvia M Duca, of 110 N Wayne St, died of respiratory failure and advanced adenocarcinoma of the lung on 9 July 1982 at Hospice of Northern Virginia, 4715 N 15th St, Arlington.
Entry in Ancestry U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 for Maro Duca born 3 January 1917, SSN 541145198, served in Amy 22 June 1942 to 11 April 1947 and 19 July 1948 to 21 July 1954, died 9 July 1982.
Entry in Ancestry U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 for Mauro Paul Duca born 3 January 1917, SFC US ARMY WORLD WAR II, Korea, died 9 July 1982 buried at Section 39 Site 1351, Arlington National Cemetery.
Entry in FindaGrave for Mauro Paul Duca born 3 January 1917, died 9 July 1982 buried at Section: 39, Site: 1351 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA .
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mauro Paul Duca.
Mauro Paul Duca was the husband of Sylvia Mclaughlin Matthews, my half third cousin.
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