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Present a little all over Italy, it has a very important nucleus in Sicily and another autonomous in central and eastern Liguria, it also has a Piedmontese stock in the Biella area probably deriving from the toponym Passalacqua di Tortona (AL), all these strains should derive from the trade of ferryman or boatman. We find traces of these surnames in Biella in the second half of the 1300s where the notary Johannes Passalacqua operates, in a judicial act dated 8/21/1341 a certain Guerriero Passalacqua is quoted as an injured party, in 1600 Matteo Passalacqua, he is a Noble of Tortona.
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