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#52Ancestors – No. 46 – Aleksandra Lipińska
Posted by Caroll in Polish Genealogy on November 16, 2014
This post is number 46 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
Aleksandra Lipinska, is the wife of Ignacy Borucki, post No. 5 in this series. She was born in 1877 and immigrated shortly after her marriage in 1896. The couple moved back in forth from Chicago and Pittsburgh. Eventually, the settled in Hamtramck, Michigan about 1911. She and Ignacy had eight children in all. Two died in childhood.
I was curious about her second child John. Born in Pittsburgh in 1897, he never seemed to have a job listed in the census. I also did not find a WWI Registration for him either. I was theorizing that he may have a disability. Recently I found a WWII Registration card that confirmed my suspicions. Under obvious physical characteristics…is lists; mentally deficient. He could not even sign his name on the form.
Aleksandra became a widow when Ignacy passed away in 1929. She had three sons of age who could help her out financially. A great benefit at the time of the depression. There was John and two younger children that needed a stable household.
I found a scan of their marriage record at http://www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl. They were married in 1895 in Krasnosielc-Sielce. Krasnosielc is a small village in Maków County, on the river Orzyc, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district called Gmina Krasnosielc. It lies approximately 18 kilometres north of Maków Mazowiecki and 90 km north of Warsaw.* *[Wikipedia]
The marriage record provided the names of the bride parents, Jan Lipinski and Anna Czaplinska. The groom’s parents are listed as Franciszek Borucki and Antonina Zabielska. The groom’s parents names match what Aleksandra provided for Ignacy’s death certificate.
The Geneteka database also has a marriage index listing for Jan Lipinski and Anna Czaplinska. The year of their marriage was 1860, which also took place in Krasnosielc-Sielce. Currently no scan is listed for this record.
Aleksandra passed away in 1952.
Borucki & Lipinska Polish/Russian Marriage Record 1896
#52Ancestors – No. 41 – William H. Woodburn
This post is number 41 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
William Woodburn and his two wives are listed on one headstone.
All Inclusive
Wives can be forever lost in history. This is not the case for my first cousin 5 removed, William H. Woodburn. William’s headstone lists both his wives names along with his name.
Williams first wife was Martha Frances Chandler. This union had four children. Martha may have died in childbirth or shortly thereafter. She died in 1864. Her last child, William Thomas Woodburn was born in 1864.
On October 14, 1868, William married America E. Baker, widow of Joseph Coffman. America had two children with Joseph Coffman. William and America had three daughters. Both William and American died in 1874.
Sources
Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100413699&ref=acom
#52Ancestors – No. 40 – Harry Trevelyan Saves Winston Churchill in 1899
This post is number 40 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
Harry Trevelyan Saves Churchill
Who is Harry Arthur John Trevelyan and did he really save Churchill’s life during the Boer War? According to an article in The Dearborn Guide on January 27, 1965, written shortly after Churchill’s death, the answer is “Yes.” Is it true, I don’t know for sure.
I have tried searching various Churchill accounts regarding his escape from the Boers to learn more and was not able to pin down the details. The article states that Trevelyan was one of a group of British soldiers who saved the 26 year old newspaper correspondent. Churchill later became Prime Minister of England. The article states Trevelyan was a Lieutenant in the Cavalry.
Trevelyan was a Canadian who join the fight against the Boers. I do not know if he joined the British military for fought under an Canadian group.
Who was Harry A. Trevelyan?
Harry’s naturalization papers state he was born in Winnipeg, Canada, on July 14, 1876. On May 15, 1901, he entered United States at Pembina, North Dakota, on the Great Northern Railroad. He states he settled in Michigan on November 1, 1908. A search has not yielded any clues of where Harry was from 1901 to November 1908.
On December 24, 1909, in Detroit, Harry marries Edith H. White, my great Aunt. The marriage record lists his parents as Samuel Trevelyan and Anne Barcroft. A search of Manitoba archives and other online databases sheds no light on this family. The couple, Harry and Edith, have no children of their own. My grandmother, Mildred Edith Anderson, as a young child, comes to live with them sometime after 1925. They considered her their daughter.
A man of many talents
Clerk Invents Calendar
Photo of Harry Trevelyan and Edith H. White
Trevelyan was an automotive engineer for Cadillac, Packard, and Studebaker. He was a member of the Composite Lodge No. 499 (Masons), his hobby was statistics, he wrote, collected British Royalty stamps, and he invented a perpetual calendar. My father has told me stories, that Uncle Harry had many travels, was in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and once was a Detroit Sheriff’s Deputy.
The RCMP officially started in 1920, after Harry’s immigration to the US. However, it’s predecessor the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) served the Canadian West. Harry could have been a constable in this unit. Members of the NWMP unit did join the fight against the Boers in 1898. In 1938, Harry is employed by the Federal Clerk’s office in Detroit. In his role as a clerk, he was mostly like deputized during the 1943 Detroit Race Riots. I don’t believe he was actually employed as a police office
Harry died on April 1, 1955. Somehow, I think he is playing the ultimate fools game on me. As I can find very little records regarding his birth and family origins. His death certificate and obituary imply that he his interred at Woodmere Cemetery, in Detroit. His ashes were actually interred elsewhere.
Sources:
He Saved Churchill’s Life in 1899, Dearborn, MI, The Dearborn Guide, January 27, 1965, page 6, col. 1. Microfilm located at Henry Ford Centennial Library, Dearborn, MI. Reel 29, December 10, 1964 to June 24, 1965.
Harry A. Trevelyan obituary, Dearborn, MI, The Dearborn Press, April 7, 1955.
Duane De Loach, “Clerk Designs Calendar Good for 500 Years.” Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI, November, 27, 1942
Photograph of Harry and Edith Trevelyan, circa 1950, Dearborn, MI. Copy in possession of Caroll Budny, Lynnwood, WA. Texas.
#52Ancestors – No. 39 – Nancy E. Fortney
This post is number 39 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
I know I should be doing the happy researcher’s dance when I find an abundance of information on one Ancestor. However, I lament because there are many ancestors I just cannot find a snippet of information. It’s fall and my bountiful basket is filled with photos and stories in my Fortney line. Best of all, sources that can be verified.
My first cousin, four times removed is Nancy Elizabeth Fortney. Our common ancestor is Eli Alexander Fortney and Cynthia Nancy Scott. She is the daughter of James Scott Fortney and Netie Elizabeth Case or Cox. Born in Iowa on 14 March 1858. Nancy Fortney Hayes, died in 1941 in Ellensburg, WA. Just a short 2.5 hour drive from where I live now. Looks like she may be the first of my ancestors to migrate to Washington State. She and her husband, James T. Hayes, married in Missouri, they steadily went west to Colorado, Nebraska and then on to Ellensburg, WA.
Their trip west to WA probably took a month or two. I first migrated to Washington from Michigan using a U-haul trailer and car hauler in 1999. It took about three days. I moved back from Florida where it was too hot for me, and it took me about seven days.
One of their descendents, L Hayes posted several photos of Nancy’s family on Ancestry. The photos are from the late 1880’s to early 1930’s. The couple had ten children. They lost two young daughters, Elsie, age 5, died in Colorado. Daughter Cora, died in Ellensburg, WA at age 4.
Below are photos posted by L. Hayes at Ancestry. The three photos show Nancy over her life.
Nancy Fortney Hayes from 1880’s to 194’s.
Sources:
An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2097023
Hayes-Meadows Family by L. Hayes, Washington State
#52Ancestors – No. 38 – Boleslaw Borucki
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy, Polish Genealogy on September 28, 2014
This post is number 38 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year. To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.
I recently moved and have been waiting for the cable provider to give me “FIRE” aka, the internet. I am a week late with post number 38. So lets make this quick as post 39 needs to be written tomorrow to keep on track.
Records can provide clues to other possible family members. The birth record for Feliks Budny, No. 26, gives the names of two witnesses to his birth. They are Ksawery Borucki and Julianna Budna. I do not know how they are related to my great grandparents, Adam Budny and Marianna (Mary) Borucka. There was not any info passed down regarding Adam’s siblings. The family was told that Mary has a sister named Josephine who remained in Poland. Her brother, Ignacy, immigrated to the States before Adam and Mary and the families lived near each other. I suspect there may have been more Borucki siblings.
I did some research at http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl It is a site run by volunteers indexing Poland’s parish records. I found a 1900 birth record for Ksawery Borucki and Julianna Budna, son, Boleslaw Borucki. I still need to translate the birth date and see if any witnesses are listed.
Polish birth record for Boleslaw Borucki
On the left margin the priest has entered a marriage date for Boleslaw. The date is 18 February 1925. I am not able to read the bride, Marianna, last name. It looks like Sypiewicz. I think I will post the photo below on Facebook and see if someone from the Polish Genealogy group can help. I was not able to find a record on genetaka.
9/30/2014 Update
The brides last name is Maminska. The city they were married in is Sypniewie.
1925 Marriage date written on side margin of 1900 birth record
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