Molti sono gli autori che di questa famiglia ne’ parlano. Il Minutoli , Inveges, Mugnos e altri raccolti dal Palizzolo Gravina nel suo “Il Blasone in Sicilia, ossia Raccolta Araldica, stampato in Palermo nel 1871-75”. Pare essere originaria della Sicilia, donde ebbe dimora nella città di Palermo. Carlo fu sindaco di Messina nel secolo XIX e la sua famiglia fu ascritta a quella nobiltà. Che i membri della famiglia siano noncuranti delle cose volgari, ripromettendosi dalle sole loro energie la dovuta ricompensa, lo provano i documenti fino ad oggi conosciuti come il Dizionario Storico-Blasonico del commendatore G.B. di Crollalanza che ne ha raccolte le tracce lasciate dalla famiglia in quelle città ove ebbe dimora ricoprendo cariche legislative, militari o altro, contribuendo non poco alla riuscita di quei documenti utili alla scoperta di questa famiglia.
Tali sono i principii, che da sopracitati Autori si diedero a questa famiglia, ma per esser questo fatto assai remoto, e d’historia molto lontana, lasciamo perciò a più eruditi delle sacre antichità, e dell’historie l’investigarne il suo certo principio. Quel che però di certo habbiamo, è che la casata per la loro antichità, e splendore, e per virtù militare, carrichi così laicali, come Ecclesiastici, e per ogno altro pregio di Cavalleria nobilissimi si scorgono, e crebbero un tempo in tanto numero, e furono sì magnifici.. Riguardo a questo cognome abbiamo ritrovato ulteriori informazioni storiche in altri archivi. Purtroppo in lingua originale Inglese. : The Italian Last Name of CHIARELLO was primarily a female given name primarily extrapolated from the Latin CLARUS (famous) which achieved a moderate popularity, greater on the Continent than in England through the fame of St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253). She was an Italian Christian saint, daughter of County Favorino Scifi and elder sister of St. Agnes. At the age of 18 she became a follower of St. Francis, and with him and her younger sister, founded the order of Poor Ladies of San Damiano (‘Poor Clares’, formerly called Minoresses’) of which she became abbess. She was canonized in 1255, and in 1958 was designated patron saint of television by Pope Pius XI on the grounds that at Christmas, 1252, when she was in her cell at San Damiano, she ‘saw and heard’ a service being held in the church of St. Francis in Assisi. Her feast day is 12th August. 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. 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: Nobili
Coat of arms: D’azzurro, al mare al naturale, movente dalla punta, sormontato nel capo da un sole d’oro figurato di ross…