The Bertucci family of Ustica is the second largest having 1,033 descendants bearing the surname as documented at the Ustica Genealogy Homepage at the time of this writing. They were among the first families to appear during the earliest years of Ustica church records from 1763 to 1767. It is the Bertucci women, however, that led the migration of the family from Lipari to Ustica.

Recorded in the first five years of Ustica church records are:
three children born to Maria Bertucci, wife of Antonino Favaloro, who would become the first mayor of Ustica in 1773 (Lettera, n. 23-24, Fall 2006, p. 10);
two children born to Francesca Bertucci, wife of Giacomo Cultraro; and
two children born to Maria Bertucci and Giovanni Pellegrino. Nicolo Bertucci, the father of Maria Bertucci Pellegrino, would also remarry in 1765 on Ustica at estimated age of 65.

The true progenitors of the Bertucci family on Ustica are the three sons of Giovanni Bertucci and Domenica Cassarà, who themselves never lived on Ustica and died in the 1790s on Lipari. The first record of their sons on Ustica is the marriage of Pietro Bertucci and Francesca Ailara in 1769. Francesca Ailara's life would be short and Pietro remarried on Ustica in 1773 to Rosa Calderaro. Their descendants alone account for 59% of all the descendants of the Bertucci of Ustica. I don't think the propagation of one man's name has ever been as successful because it seems you can't turn a corner without running into a Peter Bertucci these days. His brother, Emmanuele Bertucci would marry Rosa Natoli on Ustica in 1774. Their descendants account for 31% of all Bertucci of Ustica descendants. And, a third brother, Antonino Bertucci, would marry Angela Ailara in 1785 on Ustica. Their descendants account for only 2% but still contributed to the proliferation of the Bertucci of Ustica in the US.

Back on Lipari prior to the colonization of Ustica, the surname Bertucci was always represented as Bertuccio. Perhaps its pronunciation and spelling were shortened to distinguish it from Tuccio, another surname from the early years on Ustica. In any case, by the 1830s on Ustica, the surname Bertuccio had been totally supplanted by the form we know today, Bertucci. The Bertucci family did not have a large presence on Lipari and perhaps because of this, the family is easily traceable to a single continuous lineage.

The first recorded document for a Bertucci in Lipari is the 1607 marriage of Marc Antonio Bertucci and Giovanna Panasci. This would be a short lived marriage, however, and Marc Antonio Bertucci remarried in 1611 to Marta Pirera, herself from one of the oldest documented families from Lipari stretching back to the very beginning of the Lipari church records in 1559.

The 1611 Lipari marriage record of Marc Antonio Bertucci and Marta Pirera.