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Fernicola is specific to the people of Salerno, Buccino in particular and San Gregorio Magno and Contursi Terme, Sarnicola is also characteristic of the Salerno area of Agropoli and Vallo della lucania, Sernicola has a stock in Rome and Magliano Sabina in the Rieti area and one in the Salerno area. Cava de 'Tirreni and Salerno and in Naples, all these surnames should derive from progenitors, people of respect, so as to be called Ser, named Nicola, the first form should derive from an incorrect reading of the initial S written with archaic spelling, very similar to f, the second from a simple error of interpretation of the second letter of the surname, although, in some cases, it may be an error of transcription of the third letter from n to r, in this case the derivation would be from one of the many toponyms San Nicola.
It has a stump in Calvi Dell'Umbria (TR) and one in Campania in Salerno, it should derive from the Union of the apheresis of the term MBE with the name Nicola probably to indicate such a Nicola, character of a certain importance, so much to need the attribute of Messere. We find traces of this cognominization between the end of 1500 and the beginnings of 1600 with Pietro and Domenico Sernicola Torriero (responsible for the watchplace of the tower) of Cannetiello in the area of Pollica (SA). Additions provided by Roberto Sernicola the surname Sernicola in Cilento is already documented in the census of the kingdom made by Ferdinand I in 1489 (cf. Silvestri Alfonso, the population of Cilento in 1489, ed. CCP, Acciaroli 1991). In Umbria the surname is documented at least from 1508, when an evangelist of Nardo di Sernicola makes a legacy for a chapel in the Church of Calvi Dell'umbria (archive Com. Calvi, notarial Fund).
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