Originaria di Spagna si vuole che sia passata sotto i Martini in Sicilia e precisamente a Messina dove godette nobiltà. Un Francesco Maria era ascritto alla mastra nobile di detta città (1605); un Giovanni, primo marchese di S. Leonardo in sua famiglia per investitura del 25 settembre 1769, fu senatore di Messina negli anni 1759-60, 1763-64, 1771-72 e rettore nobile degli Spersi nel 1770-71; un Orazio, proconservatore interim di Messina, ottenne a 30 maggio 1772 il titolo di barone di Calabrello; un Giovanni e Pallavicino fu marchese di S. Leonardo per investitura del 24 novembre 1791. Con Decreto Ministeriale venne riconosciuto il titolo di marchese, di S. Leonardo al signor Giovanni, di Giulio, di Giovanni. Nel Libro d’oro della nobiltà italiana sono iscritte le sorelle di detto marchese Giovanni: Michela e Adelaide e le zie: Concetta in Bonanno e Maria Ermellina in Chemis. Altro ramo. Antica patrizia messinese. Giovanni nel 1769 fu investito del titolo di marchese di S. Leonardo, avendo acquistato la portulania della città di Siracusa nel 1756.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Italian Last Name of CARROZZA was an Italian and Spanish nickname, extrapolated from the old Italian word CARO, meaning dear, beloved and was rendered in medieval documents in the Latin form CARUS. The name has many variant spellings which include CARINI, CARINO, CARICO, CAROW, CARELLOW, and CARULLI. As the agricultural depression of southern Italy worsened towards the end of the 19th century, people started to escape to the New World. The exodus started in earnest in 1887 with Brazil and other parts of Latin America being the original destinations. By 1893, the economy had improved in the United States and people headed there from Italy in greater and greater numbers. In 1898 there were more Italian immigrants to the USA than from any other state. In the post war era, more than a quarter of Italians left the state for a new life. They joined a flood of immigrants to America which was averaging a million a year in the pre war years. The origins of Italian last names are not clear, and much work remains to be done on medieval Italian records. It seems that stable bynames, in some cases hereditary, were in use in the Venetian Republic by the end of the 10th century. The typical Italian Last Name endings are ‘i’ and ‘o’, the former being characteristic of northern Italy. The singular form ‘o’ is more typical of southern Italy. Surnames having a derivation from nicknames form the broadest and most miscellaneous class of last names, encompassing many different types of origin. The most typical classes refer adjectivally to the general physical aspect of the person concerned, or to his character. Many nicknames refer to a man’s size or height, while others make reference to a favoured article of clothing or style of dress. Many last names extrapolated from the names of animals and birds. In the Middle Ages ideas were held about the characters of other living creatures, based on observation, and these associations were reflected and reinforced by large bodies of folk tales featuring animals behaving as humans. In the Middle Ages heraldry came into use as a practical matter. It originated in the devices used to distinguish the armoured warriors in tournament and war, and was also placed on seals as marks of identity. As far as records show, true heraldry started in the middle of the 12th century, and appeared almost simultaneously in several states of Western Europe….
Noble title: Marchesi
Coat of arms: D’azzurro alla carrozza a due cavalli, d’oro, passante sul terreno al naturale, con un sole raggiante d’oro, al canto superiore sinistro dello scudo. Supporti: L’aquila bicipite, spiegata di nero, membrata, imbeccata e coronata all’antica, il tutto d’o…