The Quilietti Family

The story of a Scots Italian family

ARPINO Giuseppe 1870-1950

Giuseppi Arpino was born in the year 1870.   He was the brother of  Francesco Arpino Quilietti.

This is a photograph of Giuseppe’s mother Benedetta Cascarino. With her daughter are daughters Michaelangela Arpino, Mary Arpino [Gargaro], and Mary’s young daughter Molly Gargaro





Giuseppe’s birth with his parents names at the bottom.

The Arpino’s had landed in England before moving north to Scotland in the late 1890s. The 1891 Census sees Giuseppe working with the De-Placido family in Sandport Street in Leith, Edinburgh. The family were Confectioners and this is where he would have learned the Trade.

1901 sees Joseph or Giuseppe Arpino age 29 managing an ice cream shop at No. 83 Main Street, Roslin, Lasswade.

Joseph was an ice cream vendor during the 1890s when the great ice cream explosion was happening in the cities of Scotland.  In 1901 he was residing in Lasswade in Scotland and working in an ice cream shop which we think  belonged to his brother Nicolo.

Roslin, often historically called Rosslyn, is an attractive village to the east of the Pentland Hills and only six miles south of the centre of Edinburgh. In its current form it grew in the 1800s as a mining village. The surrounding area was home to a number of pits until the demise of deep mining in Midlothian in the 1960s.

If anyone out there can help with what happened to Joe please leave a note. He died in 1950 in the Poplars Home in Aberlady

This is a photograph of his father Benedetto Arpino with some of his family shortly before he died in 1913

Leave a Reply

Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS  Comments RSS