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GARIN of COCCONATO

Count Cocconato

"gules a chevron or, in chief two stars silver and pink with a tip of the stalk and leaved vert "

" quarterly, I and IV , gules a chevron or, in chief by two silver stars and a pink tip of the stalk and leaved vert is GARIN & II and the III, of gold snatched the fig tree vert on a chief Azure three mullets Argent is Fighiera "

Family known since the seventeenth century by captain Pierre Garin (1636). This family himself in legal studies and the judiciary, and, finally, also in arms. Descendants of Peter Garin, remember: Barthelemy, Lawyer (1654); Ludovic attorney as well (1687), Charles, LL.D., who was First Consul of Nice in 1752 and received March 27, 1775 with the title of allegiance county of a portion of the fief of Cocconato (1). Raymond, a nephew of the former, was one of the first municipal council formed after the Restoration, and was three times (1815, 1821 and 1822) First Consul at Nice. His brother, Honored Doctor of Laws, followed the career of the Judiciary for several years and filled the office of judge of the Sea Consulate in Nice.

The son of Raymond (2), we recall:

1 - Urban (b. 25 May 1813 + September 6, 1877 in Lucca, Italy) who was for many years alderman Nice. (See article about her well-documented by Jean Paul Potron here:)

http://peintres.nicehistorique.org/pge/pge_biographie.php?rubrique=biographies & ; id = 8

2 - Albert Theophilus (1826 1881), the largest figure of the family.

latter, which came at the age of 11 years ago at the Royal Military Academy of Turin, took out a second lieutenant (1845) in the Grenadier Guards Brigade. He said the campaign of 1848 promoted to lieutenant, he took part in the campaign of 1849, and after the war, was appointed captain. With the 2nd regiment of grenadiers, he made the campaign of 1859 and, at the Battle of San Martino, was severely wounded and won a silver medal the military value. Promoted major, he won at the head of a battalion of 2 nd grenadiers, a second silver medal in the decision-Perugia (186o) and the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Savoy Combat Mola di Gaeta (186o). Lieutenant-colonel, he spent some time at the disposal of the Grand General Command in the struggle for the suppression of brigandage.

He then took command of the 19th infantry regiment and, few months later, aged just 37, he was appointed Colonel. During the campaign of 1866, Garin found himself with his regiment at the Battle of Custoza, and for having reported the attack in Santa Lucia del Tione, he was awarded the Cross of Officer of the Military Order of Savoy. In the fall of Rome (1870), Garin, still heads the 19th regiment, won a high military honor: the cross of Commander of the Military Order of Savoy. In 1872, Albert Garin was promoted to major general and in the spring of 1881, he was assigned to command of the division of Bari, he held, when, five months after he was appointed lieutenant-general. Besides the decorations to the military value which we have already mentioned, the general Garin was awarded the French medal commemorating the year 1859, the commemorative medal for the Italian campaigns of Independence and Commander Cross of Saints Maurice & Lazarus and Grand Officer of the Italian Crown.

The son of Count Urban was Count Raymond Edwin (1898). He, like his uncle was an officer in the Grenadiers of the Royal Army Italian seriously wounded in Custozza (1866) (1) and decorated for the occasion of the silver medal for military valor. Withdrawn from service, he was for many years trustee Caraglio (3), Piedmont, and very active and very beneficial to various good deeds in Nice. His widow, the Countess Clementine Garin, born di Sant'Albino Righini, now continues his work to such enlightened protection and benevolent munificence.

Honore Garin, doctor of law, above named, had the descendants

1. Charles Felix, a lawyer who followed the career of the judiciary and filled successively assistant jobs Prefecture Nice, judge of court of first instance Oneille then, until the annexation of the provincial court judge in Nice.

2. Wenceslas lawyer too, was for several years until the annexation advisor Prefecture in Nice and awarded the Cross of Saints Maurice & Lazarus. Among the son of a knight. Charles Felix (3), finally recall the Knight of Eugene Garin Cocconato, currently (1912) alive and Portuguese consul in Nice.

state current staff: Urban-Edouard-Henri Count Garin Cocconato, married Felicite del Balzo, dukes of Presenzano.

Brother and sister:

1. Raymond.

2. Mary.

Mother: Georgine ANKETELL-JONES, Widow of Frederick GARIN COCCONATO

Aunt Clementine RIGHINI Counts of Sant'Albino, Widow of Raymond Edwin GARIN COCCONATO

Cousins (1): 1 - Rudolph x Rosalie SALINO ( Counts)

2 - x Leonie Eugene Spitalieri of CESSOLE ( Counts)

Girls: 1 - x Henriette Count Raoul de Chevron Villette

2 - Germaine

(1) In this branch became extinct family Fighiera, Baron de CHATEAUNEUF

(Weapons at the beginning of the article)

(1) The projectile was struck with the Count Garin Raymond could never be extracted from the wound, which caused the health of the great man of serious damage and eventually caused his death.

(2) A Caraglio Count Garin had (and this is his widow who owns it now) a beautiful property with a splendid country house.

(3) He married Miss Henrietta Verani-Masin, lords of Châteauneuf.

(1) Cocconato in the province of Alessandria (Piedmont), dismembered feud between fifty families of Piedmont. The Garin Nice were the only contestants who had a portion of this fee.

(2) He married Josephine Brignone, counts di Costigliole (° 1790 1844), a Piedmontese family now extinct.

Source: J. Oreste Di Castelnuovo, "The Nice Noblsse" LAFFITTE REPRINT, 1912