Pipitone name in history
My understanding is that the Pipitone family (all of them) is originally from Marsala, in province of Trapani (famous for its wine, of course). Obviously coming from Marsala they owned vineyards and were in wine production, although at least one branch in the family were pharmacists. Three generations before my grandmother (my grandmother was born in 1909) so we are talking about 1825-1850 while Sicily was still under the Bourbon (Spanish) domination there was a scandal in the family. A member of the Pipitone family caught somebody stealing from their property but unfortunately that person turned out to be a Bourbon, i.e., Spanish or Spanish sympathizer, policemen or another kind of law enforcer. It is vague if that Bourbon policemen was wounded or ended up dead in the fray, but for the Pipitone family that meant that they were traitors to the King of Naples (where the seat of Bourbon royalty resided) and could have been sentenced to death if proven guilty. So they scattered. One person, the great grand father of my grandmother, ended up in my hometown (Altofonte, formerly Parco). Two members of the family went to Palermo and maybe from there some members ended up in Misilmeri. My grandmother said that (maybe because of security) that the Pipitones in my home town lost communication with the other members of the family in other towns.