Ice cream sellers and street musicians

[peggyD]

Hi Everone

I am trying to piece together some family history.
My great gandparents were called Edward & Annie Capes, they were Ice cream makers around 1925 in Hull, they had an ice cream shop and three carts that would go around the area selling, this was around the same time that the Penna family was in that area too. My grandad has said that the 'S' was put on the end of the surname when the couple came over from Italy. Annie Capes was also known to have been on a travelling stage with her sisters as a dancer before she had children with Edward (13 children in total).

Any further info would be very much appreciated.

Peggy x

[roofy]

Hello,
I am revisiting this thread after posting last year. Ive recently been in touch with a cousin who has given me some extra info and Id love to hear from anyone who knows the family or even better, is family:)

Domino Bagnaro, Ice cream vendor born in Naples in 1887 and died in London 1933
Matteo and Raffaela Cavo [they are mis-enumrated on the 1901 census as Molteo and Raffoda.] Matteo had a cafe and provisions shop in Macklin St, near Covent Garden in the late 1900's. They both immigrated to England from Maiori, near Naples.
Im wondering if they were all en route to the US but decided to stop in England.
Roofy

ps the attached photo is Domino/Dominic Bagnaro with three of his children, Michel, Mary and Florence [ninny]

[Capo1]

My Capaldi Ancestors came over from Cassino in the late 1800's to the UK as Musicians.
Looking at records, they spent some time in Edinburgh where there trade seemed to be Confectioners and Restauraters, but in England and Ireland they were Musicians.
Majority of the Italians they were around were Musicians, such Families as:

Tedesco
Salera
Arpino
Caringi
Macari
Colacicco
Di Tommaso
Coletta
D'Agostino
Di Ciacca
Pacitto
Innelli
Risi
Pinchera
Ricci
Rotonda
Tartaglia
Tomasso
Velardo

[roofy]

just as a ps to my previous message, Dominic was born in Minori, near Naples in about 1867.
thanks
Roofy

[Wearsider]

Last Wednesday, 18th May , 'The Northern Echo' published an article 'The Anglo-Italian job' that featured Eddie Rossi an ice cream seller from Darlington.

There is a follow-up article in today's issue of the paper that mentions a number of ice cream sellers in the County Durham area.

Wearsider.

[roofy]

Dear Wearsider,
how ironic, or do i mean downright blxxdy annoying,:) that i live in the north, have easy access to these papers yet my lot are down south. Oh well, Ill have a read when Im in the library next.
Thanks for letting people know about it,
Roofy

[PastPresentFuture]

hello,

is anyone's italian ancestors set up home in the Clerkenwell area??

[Ninatoo]

I have an update for my Granelli ice cream family.

As mentioned in previous posts, Agostino Granelli was an ice cream seller in Macclesfield in 1911, as per the census.  I had been unable to trace his family, and I was told they went back to Italy and then one daughter went to the US.

I have now found a connection to a Mary Granelli who married Arthur Zecchini, a barber, in Ohio USA.  Her mother was  Margherita Agazzi, who went to visit/stay with her in 1946.

I am wondering if this is familiar to anyone?

[millybobs]

Hi Everone

I am trying to piece together some family history.
My great gandparents were called Edward & Annie Capes, they were Ice cream makers around 1925 in Hull, they had an ice cream shop and three carts that would go around the area selling, this was around the same time that the Penna family was in that area too. My grandad has said that the 'S' was put on the end of the surname when the couple came over from Italy. Annie Capes was also known to have been on a travelling stage with her sisters as a dancer before she had children with Edward (13 children in total).

Any further info would be very much appreciated.

Peggy x

Hi Peggy
Wondered if you#d seen my posting (reply #44 on this thread) re other ice cream sellers in Hull?  What was the name your ancestors used in Hull, and do you know when they arrived in the UK, or whereabouts in Italy they came from? 
Regards
Paul