The Morelli family name is synonymous with ice cream.
Our great-uncle Peter was one of nine brothers who left their Italian homeland on foot in the early 1900s in search of work. Peter learnt the art of glass blowing in Paris before settling in London. His brother Joe ventured further north, and after landing in Greenock, Scotland, he crossed the sea to Ireland and established a café in Ballymena.
As business flourished, Peter answered Joe’s call for help and, later in 1911, with his brother’s guidance, opened his own café in Coleraine.