Domenico Bancalari (ca 1804 - 1901) was born in Italy. He arrived in England in the early 1840s. A Dominico and a Paolo Bancolari, strolling musicians, arrived in Dover from France on 12 October 1840.
In the third quarter of 1846 Domenico married Jemima Wilcox in Norwich, Norfolk, England. On 24 May 1849 their son Barnardo Vincent, was born. He was baptised at Willow Lane Catholic chapel on 10 June. His godfather was Bernardo Botto.
By 1850 Domenico was a shopkeeper in Ber Street. However, he also travelled around the country, because on the 1851 census he was a hawker in Ipswich, Suffolk, and in 1861 a musician in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. His wife was a shopkeepr in Ber street.
By 1863 they were running the Fox and Hounds in Ber Street until at least 1888.
On the 1891 census Domenico lived at 134 Ber Street, a retired confectioner. His wife had died in the first quarter of 1890.
Domenico was mentioned in the following trade directories:
Domenico Bancalari died of senile decay on 8 February 1901 at the Workhouse, Heigham. He was an ice cream vendor of St Michael at Thorn.
Cromer Museum has a photograph of 'Mr Bancalori' who is pushing his cart at the corner of Church Street and High Street, Cromer, in 1898. (CRRMU: 1981.80.235). This probably was Domenico's son, Barnardo Bancalari, who was born on 24 May 1849 and died on 16 September 1906.
Notes: