Bagheria to Brooklyn.
A Sicilian family from Bagheria, Palermo — Simone Domilici’s crossing to the Brooklyn waterfront, and the Carini Mineo household behind him.
The name
Domilici is not in the Dictionary of American Family Names. It is a rare Sicilian surname. Geneanet treats it as a name likely given to one original household — people who carry it are probably distant cousins of one another. This documented branch is from Bagheria, just east of Palermo. The spelling is stable in American records; Simone’s daughter Sadie appears there as Sadie R. Mayole.
Do not collapse it with Dominici, a common Italian patronymic from the given name Domenico / Latin Dominicus (“of the Lord”), concentrated in Lazio and Umbria. The extra l is not a casual misspelling of that name. Sicilian Dumìnicu (Dominic) is a real given name and surname stem; turning it into Domilici would still have to explain n becoming l. That is the weaker fit.
The better working etymology is agglutination: southern Italian do (“of the”) + Milici. Milici is in the Dictionary of American Family Names as a southern Italian habitational name from places called Milici in Messina province, including Rodì Milici. That is a hypothesis about the word, not a parish proof that this Bagheria household came from Messina.
The 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
The documented direct line, generation by generation:
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