Domilici

Bagheria to Brooklyn.

A Sicilian family from Bagheria, Palermo — Simone Domilici’s crossing to the Brooklyn waterfront, and the Carini Mineo household behind him.

Brooklyn, 1913–1940

Investigation

Was Simone a capo in Red Hook? Census, naturalization, and a death certificate vs. family lore.

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Bagheria & Carini

Family

Nunzio, Vincenzo, Girolama Tomasello, and four centuries of Mineo in Carini.

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The name

A Bagheria surname

Domilici is a rare Sicilian name, documented in this family in Bagheria, just east of Palermo. Simone’s daughter Sadie married into the Maiale line and appears in U.S. records as Sadie R. Mayole. The spelling in America is stable; the town in Sicily is not in doubt.

The deeper paper trail behind Simone runs through the Tomasello marriage and a 400-year Mineo line in Carini, then Bagheria. That is sourced research, not a hint-tree.

The record

Bagheria → Brooklyn

The documented direct line, generation by generation:

Nunzio Domilici
b. about 1820, Bagheria.
Vincenzo Domilici
b. 1844, Bagheria.
Simone Domilici
b. 11 Feb 1885, Bagheria – d. 17 May 1940, Brooklyn. m. Girolama Tomasello. Longshoreman, later butcher. Naturalized 1926.
Sadie R. Mayole
b. 1921, Brooklyn — Simone’s daughter, paternal grandmother of the Maiale line in this tree.

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