MORETTI Giuseppe Cassera I

Giuseppe Cassera Moretti (1805 - 1856) was born in 1805 in Vercana, Como, Lombardy, Italy.

By 1839 he worked as a Jeweller, Carver & Gilder and Barometer Maker at 7 Norfolk Street, King's Lynn.

On the 1841 census, collected on 6 June, he was lodging at the Nelson Inn, Burnham Thorpe. He was a Jeweller and single.

On the 1851 census, collected on 30 March, he was lodging in St James Street, St Margaret, King's Lynn, with Mr and Mrs Wells, Innkeepers. He was a Jeweller and single.

By 1854 he worked as a Silversmith and Jeweller in Railway Road, King's Lynn.

He travelled to Italy shortly afterwards, as his travel document of 1855 shows. His nephew, Giuseppe Cassera Moretti, joined him in King's Lynn before May 1856.

Reproduced with kind permission of Sara Hill

Giuseppe Cassera Moretti was mentioned in the following trade directories:

• Robson's Commercial Directory 1839, p. 62, Jeweller, 7 Norfolk St., King's Lynn
• J. Pigot Norfolk 1839, p. 479, Carver, Gilder and Barometer maker, 7 Norfolk St., King's Lynn
• Francis White & Co Norfolk 1854, p. 612, Silversmith & Jeweller, Railway Rd, King's Lynn

He died in Railway Road, King's Lynn on 25 May 1856 from Structural Disease of Liver with Malaria. On 22 May he had made a will, naming his nephew, Giuseppe Cassera Moretti, as his heir.

Several barometers made by Giuseppe Cassera Moretti of King's Lynn can be found online. However, it is uncertain whether they were made by Giuseppe senior or junior.

• Early 19th century mercury barometer and thermometer with silvered dial, hygrometer & level, in mahogany banjo case, by I.C. Moretti, Lynn (King's Lynn), 3' 6'' high. Lot 481, auctioned in 1999 by Peter Cheney.
• http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/early-19th-century-mercury-barometer-thermomete-1-c-dlc1m4yxoc
• A 38.5 inches mahogany banjo barometer, signed J.C. Moretti, Lynn, was bid to $2300 (est. $700/900). Weschler's Spring Auction, 2003, Washington D.C.
• http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles_archive/articles/sep03/wesc0903.htm
• Excellent banjo barometer by J.C. Moretti, Lynn (King's Lynn). Mahogany case with ebony and sycamore stringing. Original thermometer. Pennyfarthing antiques
• http://web.onetel.net.uk/~pennyfarthing/collect.htm
• Victorian mahogany banjo barometer, 19th c. Of typical form, the silvered dials signed F. Moretti, Lynn. H: 38 1/2. Lot 904, sold 20 Mar 2005, Freeman's
• http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/victorian-mahogany-banjo-barometer-19th-c-typical-form-silvered-dials-signed-f-moretti-lynn-h-38-12 and http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/victorian-mahogany-banjo-barometer,-19th-century.-1-c-374a014558

Notes:

• I am indebted to Sara Hill for Giuseppe Cassera Moretti's travel document, for sharing the cost of his death certificate and for editing this text.
• Go to http://www.ancestry.co.uk for the Moretti's family tree (Moretti Giuseppe Cassera of King's Lynn) and for the 1841 and 1851 census.
• For Pigot and White's directories see http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk. For Robson's directory see http://www.historicaldirectories.org
• The will is at the Norfolk Record Office (MF 472, p. 504) and at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library (GS0166995, p. 504).