Rosalba Capaldi (ca 1871 - 1942) was probably born in Picinisco, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy (1). Her parents were Gaetano Capaldi and Maria Giuseppa Gizzi (2).
Rosalba probably arrived in Norwich in the early 1900s together with her husband, Luigi Ventre (ca 1879 - 1948). On the 1901 census they lived with her brother Luigi and his wife Elisabetta at 42 St Stephens Road, Lakenham. Luigi Ventre was an organ grinder.
Rosalba Capaldi and Luigi Ventre had four children: Restituta (1901 - 1985), Luigia (1906 - 1990), Eremilia (1906 - 1907) and John Richie (1908 - 1985). The last three children were born in Norwich. (3)
From 1906 to 1908 the Ventres lived at 5 Newman's Yard, Ber Street. Luigi was an ice cream vendor. By 1924 the family had moved to 89 Ber Street, next to Domenico and Luigia Parravani. (4) By 1927 they lived at 36 Howard Street and that is where Rosalba died on 17 October 1942, wife of an ice cream vendor. (5) Her husband died on 5 April 1948. He was a fish fryer. (6)
Notes:
(1) 1911 census of Gelsomino Capaldi
(2) The father's name was on Luigi's marriage certificate, given to me by Maddie Bartle and the mother's name was given by Sandra Bassiri.
(3) birth records of Luigia and Eremilia, born on 1 May 1906, and Richie Ventre, born on 27 August 1908 at the Millennium Library Norwich
(4) Kelly's Directories Norwich 1924, p. 20, Ventri John, http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/Summary.aspx?pos=0
(5) Kelly's Directories Norwich 1927, p. 452, Ventre Giovvanni, http://www.noah.norfolk.gov.uk/Summary.aspx?pos=1 and Rosalba's death record at the Millennium Library Norwich, week ending 24 Oct 1942, Norwich South
(6) Luigi (Giovanni)'s death record at the Millennium Library Norwich, week ending 10 Apr 1948, Norwich South