Domilici – Mineo – Bagheria, Palermo

Your great-grandfather Simone Domilici's family (mother Dorothy Fellman Maiale's paternal grandmother's line — verify exact relationship in GEDCOM). See simone-domilici-investigation.md for the full flagship piece; this file covers the broader family/town history.

Bagheria cluster (immigrant generation and just before)

• 🟢 Nunzio Domilici (b. ~1820) → Vincenzo Domilici (b. 1844) → Simone Domilici (1885–1940, emigrated to NYC) m. Girolama Tomasello (1891–1964)
• 🟢 Domenica Mineo (b. 1826, Bagheria) — 3rd-great-grandmother, married into the Tomasello family. Part of a 400-year documented Mineo lineage (see below).

Carini cluster (deep, 1535–1690s)

🟢 Real parish-register-depth documentation, exact dates, 150 years continuous in one small town before the family shifted to Bagheria: Alfonso Mineo (b. ~1535) → Vincenzo Mineo (1562–1648) → Francesco Mineo (~1642–1697) → Leonardo Paolo Mineo (1669–1728) → ... → Bagheria shift ~1690s → Carmelo Lodovico Bartolomeo Mineo (1746–1831) → Rosario Mineo (b. 1787) → Domenica Mineo (b. 1826).

Also from Carini: Taormina, Cusimano, La Fata, Lo Grasso, Amato, Lo Piccolo, Lo Geloso, Pellerito, Ventimiglia, Randazzo families — all repeatedly intermarried in this one town for ~300 years.

Living relative lead (unconfirmed connection, worth pursuing)

🟡 Nunzio Domilici (Jan 25, 1925, Bagheria – Dec 18, 2017, Brooklyn) — same rare surname, same exact hometown, plausible generation to be a cousin of Sadie Domilici Mayole (Simone's daughter). m. Marie Marotta; children Rosemarie, Nunzio Jr., Maria, Louis, Bette Anne, Joseph. Son Nunzio Jr. has a public professional profile — potential live contact for family history not otherwise documented.

Notable hometown connections (no blood link confirmed)

• Renato Guttuso (painter, 1911–1987) — born Bagheria
• Giuseppe Tornatore (director, Cinema Paradiso) — born Bagheria, made 2009 film Baarìa (dialect name for the town) about growing up there

🔴 Debunked / ruled out

• "Baron di San Carlo" title on Giovanni Calogero Amato (Carini, 1510–1597) — no corroborating source, doesn't fit surrounding ordinary-villager context
• No confirmed link to Sal Mineo, Manfredi "Al" Mineo, or Settimo Mineo — see notable-connections.md