Galeazza
From Guardiaregia to Palisades Park
Molise, Italy → Bergen County, New Jersey
Galeazza
Guardiaregia · Palisades Park · Bergen County
The village
IA hill town in Molise
Guardiaregia sits at about 730 metres in the Province of Campobasso, in Molise. Its residents are the guardioli. Civil records for the town begin in 1809, and parish registers reach back further, which is why so many families in North Jersey can still trace a surname to a single street in the village.
In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries a large share of the town emigrated. Many guardioli crossed to North Jersey and settled in Palisades Park, Fort Lee and the Bergen County corridor within sight of Manhattan — near work, near each other, and near the churches and clubs that kept the village connected across an ocean.
The families who arrived brought trades with them: masonry, plumbing, carpentry, ironwork. Those trades built much of the housing stock that still stands in northeastern Bergen County, and they are the direct ancestor of the work Alliotts does today.
- Region
- Molise, Italy
- Province
- Campobasso
- Setting
- Hill town at about 730 m
- Residents
- Guardioli
- Civil records
- From 1809, with deeper parish history
- Diaspora
- Palisades Park, Fort Lee, Bergen County, NJ
Lead feature
IIThe Galeazza family — now Alliotts
Galeazza is one of the documented surnames of Guardiaregia. In America the spelling was Americanized to Alliotts — the same family, a new spelling, as happened to many guardioli names at the port and in the parish books of North Jersey.
What did not change was the work. Four generations later the family still builds, and still holds what it builds, in the same handful of Bergen County boroughs where the first guardioli settled.
1903
Trades in the New York metro area
The family's work in the building trades in the New York metropolitan area dates to 1903, in the same emigration that carried guardioli families from Molise to North Jersey.
1920
Alliotts Plumbing
Alliotts Plumbing is established, the first business to carry the Americanized spelling of the Guardiaregia surname Galeazza.
1980
Alliotts Construction Corp.
General contracting and construction management, building custom homes and multifamily work across northeastern Bergen County.
Today
Alliotts Enterprises
Developer, owner and manager of apartment communities and industrial space in Bergen County — four generations on from the first crossing.
Directory
IIIFamilies of Guardiaregia in Bergen County
Surnames documented in Guardiaregia's records and carried into the Palisades Park and North Jersey diaspora. Origin and settlement only — no personal histories.
Galeazza
Americanized to Alliotts
A documented Guardiaregia surname, Americanized to Alliotts. Developer, builder and property owner in Bergen County.
Albanese
Among the largest Guardiaregia names, with a strong Palisades Park presence in the North Jersey diaspora.
Pallotta
One of the most common surnames in Guardiaregia. Many Pallotta families settled in North Jersey.
Giannantonio
A Guardiaregia name carried into Bergen County through the twentieth-century emigration.
Rotundo
A Guardiaregia family with emigration documented through both Canada and the United States.
De Francesco
Stone masonry and the building trades; from Guardiaregia to North America.
Sampogna
A Guardiaregia name recorded in the Palisades Park and Fort Lee area.
Serio / Serino
Documented Guardiaregia families, both spellings appearing in town and parish records.
Grifone
A Guardiaregia surname in the town records, carried into the diaspora.
Giambattista
Guardiaregia roots; the name was often Anglicized after arrival in America.
Vecchiarelli
A Guardiaregia name present in the North Jersey diaspora.
Del Basso
A documented Guardiaregia family among those who settled in the Bergen County corridor.
Martino
A documented Guardiaregia family recorded in the town's civil registers.
Moliterni
A documented Guardiaregia family with descendants in North Jersey.
Palladino
A documented Guardiaregia family among the guardioli who emigrated to the United States.
Piazza
A documented Guardiaregia family in the town records and the diaspora.
One village, one county
IVBuilt where the families settled
The apartment communities Alliotts developed, owns and manages in Palisades Park stand in the same borough the guardioli chose more than a century ago. They are leased directly by the owner and are not offered for sale.
Homestead Park
Palisades Park, NJ
305 / 309 / 315 12th St
Palisades Park, NJ
The Hillside
Palisades Park, NJ
Hilltop
Palisades Park, NJ
Windsor Square
Palisades Park, NJ
The Regency
Palisades Park, NJ
Meadowview
Palisades Park, NJ
Parkside
Palisades Park, NJ
227 Grantwood Blvd
Palisades Park, NJ
54 W. Harriet
Palisades Park, NJ
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