RAINA Carlo Angelo

Carlo Angelo Raina (1860 - 1931) was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.(1) His father was Carlo Raina.(2)

On 3 April 1881 Carlo Angelo was a confectioner (manager) in 4 Aldgate, St Catherine Cree, London.(3) Ten years later, on 4 April 1891, he was working as a cook and he was a lodger at 55 Berwick Street, the home of Giovanni De Bernardini, who was a restaurant manager.(4)

Carlo Angelo married Luisina Peroni (1871 - 1951) at St George Tufnell Park, Islington, London, on 5 December 1894.(5) She was born in Hatton Garden, London, and was the daughter of Luigi Peroni (1836 - 1896), an Italian glass blower and barometer maker, and Victoria Adams (1844 - 1911), who was born in Norwich.(6)

Carlo Angelo and Luisina had eleven children, five of whom died in infancy: Carlo Louis Winter (1897 - 1970), Bruce (1899 - 1899), Victor (1899 - 1899), Angelo (1902 - 1902), Hilda (1903 - 1903), Lily Adele (1904 - 1978), Stanley Enrico (1906 - 1956), Raymond (1908 - 1908), Maddalena Vittoria (1910 - 2002), Pearl Caterine (1912 - 1998) and Joan Felicia (1917 - 2001).(7)

In 1895 Carlo Angelo Rayna - his surname had been anglicised - took over Café Royal at 59 London Street, Norwich, from Cristoforo Fasola, a Swiss Italian.(8) It was first listed as Rayna's in Jarrolds' Norwich Directory and Kelly's Norfolk Directory in 1896.(9)

Carlo Angelo was naturalized on 5 July 1901.(10)

The Raynas lived at 59 London Street at until 1930.(11) They then moved to 211 Unthank Road, where Carlo Angelo died on 6 December 1931(12). The Café Royal was continued by his son Stanley Enrico until it was sold to Stewart and Patteson in 1938.(13) Luisina died on 12 April 1951, aged 79, at 211 Unthank Road.(14)

Notes:

• 1. 1881 Census of England and Wales, RG11/382 Folio 20, Page 7.
     1901 Census of England and Wales, RG13/1842 Folio 6, Page 3.

  2. Parish registers St George Tufnell Park, Islington, London. Marriages 1894, Page 134 Number 267 Ancestry

  3. Ibid. 1

  4. 1891 Census of England and Wales. RG12//144 Folio 27 Page 4.

  5. Ibid. 2
     GRO birth Luisina Peroni, Jan - Mar 1871, Holborn, Volume 1b, Page 611
     Death Luisina Rayna, N/HE 11/58, MF 1200/6, Norwich South, Number 320, 12 Apr 1951, N&N Millennium Library

  6. GRO marriage Victoria Adams, Jan - Mar 1865, Clerkenwell, Volume 1b, Page 727
     1881 Census of England and Wales, RG11/269 Folio 71 Page 10
     Nationality and naturalisation: Certificate 12105, issued 5 Jul 1901, The National Archives

  7. Vaccination Carlo Louis Winter Rayna, N/HE 12/21, MF1206/2, East Wymer, April, Number 115
     GRO death Carlo Louis Winter Rayna, Jan - Mar 1970, Surrey Northern, Volume 5g, Page 531
     Death Bruce Rayna, N/HE 11/6, MF 1192/1, West Wymer, Number 115, 3 Jan 1899
     Death Victor Rayna, N/HE 11/6, MF 1192/1, West Wymer, Number 11, 12 Nov 1899
     Death Angelo Rayna, N/HE 12/27, MF 1207/4, West Wymer, Number 184, 6 Mar 1902
     Death Hilda Rayna, N/HE 12/28, MF 1208/1, West Wymer, Number 227, 2 Mar 1903
     GRO death Lily Adele Sayer, Jan - Mar 1978, Surrey Northern, Volume 17, Page 0521
     Birth Stanley Enrico Rayna, N/HE 10/2, MF1177/2, West Wymer, Number 44, 20 Jun 1906
     Death Stanley Enrico Rayna, N/HE 11/63, MF 1201/5, Norwich South, Number 478, 22 Aug 1956
     Death Raymond Rayna, N/HE 11/15, MF1193/5, West Wymer, Number 166, 15 May 1908
     Birth Maddalena Vittoria Rayna, N/HE 10/5, MF 1178/1, East Wymer, Number 467, 21 Aug 1910
     GRO death Maddalena Vittoria Rayna, Jan 2002, Norwich, Register number A29B, District and subdistrict 6391A, Number 289
     Birth Pearl Caterina Rayna, N/HE 10/7, MF 1178/3, East Wymer, Number 274, 15 Aug 1912
     Death Pearl Caterina Wightman, Jan 1999, Reading, Register number D2B, District and subdistrict 3201D, Number 192
     Birth Joan Felicia Rayna, N/HE 10/12, MF 1179/4, East Wymer, 24 Jun 1917

  8. Norfolk Public Houses

  9. Trade directories: Norfolk Sources

  10. Nationality and naturalisation: Certificate 12105, issued 5 Jul 1901, The National Archives

  11. E-mail from Ian Sayer. 28 March 2021.

  12. E-mail from Ian Sayer. 28 March 2021.
      Death Carlo Angelo Rayna, N/HE 11/38, MF 1197/6, West Wymer, Number 325, 6 Dec 1931, N&N Millennium Library.

  13. E-mail from Ian Sayer. 28 March 2021.

  14. Death Luisina Rayna, N/HE 11/58, MF 1200/6, Norwich South, Number 320, 12 Apr 1951, N&N Millennium Library.