Andrew Lewis Caprani (ca 1801-1879) was born in Sala, Como, Italy in about 1801. He married with Martha Adcock on 20 Dec 1824 in Edgbaston. They had no children.
On the 1841 census he lived in White Lion Street, Norwich, with his wife Martha and with John Caprani, hawker, born in foreign parts. Lewis was a hardware dealer. John Caprani died of Phthisis on 2 March 1844 at White Lion Street, Norwich. He was a shopkeeper. He was buried on 7 March at St Peter Mancroft church.
Lewis Caprani appears as a hardware dealer in 5 White Lion Street, Norwich, in several trade directories:
On the 1851 census he still lived in White Lion Street, Norwich. His wife was absent.
In the late 1850s Lewis started a new business at Meat Market in Bury St Edmunds. It is mentioned in the Post Office Directory Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, 1858. The Norwich shop was continued by Paul Bernasconi & Co.
On the 1861 census Lewis and Martha lived in 22 Bull's Lane, Bury St Edmunds, with their nephew Giuseppe Caprani, 18, shopman, born in Italy.
Lewis Caprani became a naturalized British subject on 19 March 1869. His referees were William Johnson, Esq., William George Rumble, china dealer, George Drew Hawkins, ironmonger, and Henry Blyth, general dealer.
On the 1871 census Lewis was a lodging house keeper in Great Yarmouth. Nile Cottage, the lodging house, was located on Marine Parade and is mentioned in the following trade directories:
Andrew Lewis Caprani died in Great Yarmouth on 4 June 1879. Hif wife had died in 1878.
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