Domilici family — Bagheria & Carini

Great-grandfather Simone Domilici's family. His daughter Sadie R. Mayole is the paternal grandmother of the Maiale line. The flagship lore-vs-records story is the Simone investigation.

🟢 Documented Nunzio Domilici (b. ~1820) → Vincenzo Domilici (b. 1844) → Simone Domilici (1885–1940, emigrated to NYC) m. Girolama Tomasello (1891–1964).

🟢 Documented Domenica Mineo (b. 1826, Bagheria) — 3rd-great-grandmother, married into the Tomasello family, part of a 400-year documented Mineo lineage.

Carini cluster (deep, 1535–1690s)

🟢 Documented 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.

Possible cousin household (unconfirmed, not contacted)

🟡 Plausible A Nunzio Domilici (1925–2017, Bagheria → Brooklyn) is a plausible generation match to a cousin of Sadie's. Same rare surname, same hometown. Not contacted; living descendants are not named here.

Notable hometown connections (no blood link confirmed)

Renato Guttuso (painter, 1911–1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore (director, Cinema Paradiso, made the 2009 film Baarìa about growing up there) — both born Bagheria.

Ruled out

🔴 Debunked "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 — common Palermo-province surname only. See Ruled Out.