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Dominic Nave
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Dominic Nave was born around 1863 and married Frances Bove around 1884 in Casulandi, Italy. He brought his family over from Italy on July 10, 1910 and settled in Norristown. Dominic was a baker who worked at a local bakery in Norristown. He was a deeply religious man who studied in the seminary in Italy. Although he left the seminary to marry Frances Bove, he remained deeply religious and followed the tradional teachings of the Catholic Church. He made his daughters carry the rosary on them and encouraged them to say the rosary while they were waiting at the bus stop.
Keeping to his religious beliefs, he refused the family to eat meat on Fridays. He was once challanged on this doctrine by his daughter Frances, who told him that it was more of a sin to waste the meat. He finally agreed.
In the 1920's the family lived at 335 E. Penn Street, where he was a baker. He kept a family bible with all the names on it which his grand-daughter Rose Madonna has in her possession.