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#52Ancestors – No. 37 – Monsignor John A. Naja
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy, Polish Genealogy on September 15, 2014
This post is number 37 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.
Monsignor John A. Naja
A leaf hint appeared on my tree that caused me to scamper up the family tree of my mother’s first husband. I was delighted to finally find a passport application for someone that was in my (extended) family. In reviewing the passport, I discovered that the person attended the SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, MI, in the 1921. This past August 2014, I attended the Polish Genealogy course as part of Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) at the Polish Mission on the seminary campus.
My mother’s father-in-law, Stanley Gaber, had a sister named Caroline Gaber. Caroline married Frank Naja. Frank’s brother, John Antony Naja (1901-1980) became a priest. The Naja’s were saloon keepers and possibly an Undertaker back in the day. In the early part of the 1900’s, the Gaber’s and Naja’s families resided in Shenandoah, PA. John went to study for the priesthood at the Michigan campus in his mid teens.
In 1921, John decided he wanted to travel and go to school in Europe and applied for a passport. The application includes his photo and a follow up letter to correct the spelling of his name. His last name was incorrectly spelled at Maja.
Source:
Passport Applications, January 2, 1906–March 31, 1925. NARA Microfilm Publication M1490, 2740 rolls. General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Photo: http://www.poles.org/db/pol_parish/stladislaus_philpa/st.ladislaus_01.html
#52 Ancestors – No. 35 – Recycling of Oliver Cromwell
This post is number 35 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.
Recycling Names
My Kentucky kinfolk liked to reuse names frequently within generations and successive generations. One such trend was using Oliver Cromwell. It was used as a first and middle name then add the family’s last name. If the name sounds familiar it is because Oliver Cromwell was the Lord Protector of England who helped overthrow King Charles I of England. Historically considered a dictator in the mid-1650’s.
The use of Oliver Cromwell starts with Elizabeth Oliver Brumley and Ezekiel Vanlandingham naming their son, Oliver Cromwell Vanlandingham, Sr, in 1784. Some researchers state that that Elizabeth mother’s maiden name was Oliver. I have no source citations to verify that information.
Oliver Cromwell Vanlandingham (1784-1856)
Oliver C. Vanlandingham, Sr; was a successful merchant in Paradise, KY and Baton Rouge, LA. He married Mary A. Drake of Louisiana and they had several children. One was Oliver C. Vanlandingham, Jr.; who in turned named one of his sons, Oliver C. Vanlandingham, III.
Ezekiel’s sister, Elizabeth, married Samuel Weir. Another prominent family in Paradise, KY. Her daughter, Elizabeth Weir, married Isaac Roll. They named one of their sons, Oliver Cromwell Roll (1848-1926). Their other son, David Roll, used the same name for one of his sons, my great-grandfather, Ollie C Roll (1894-1917).
The name was passed forward by Flora Roll who married Edward Yonts. They named their first son, Oliver Cromwell Yonts (1915-1952). Other cousins in the family tree have used Oliver or Olive for the girls.
Photo Credit
This photo appears in “A History of Muhlenberg County” by Otto Arthur Rothert.
#52Ancestors – No. 30 – Isaac N Pittman
This post is number 30 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.
This week’s ancestor is Isaac N. Pittman, father of John Thomas Pittman in post #52 Ancestors No. 9. Isaac is the son of Thomas A. Pittman and Susan Lawson. Born March 1838 in Todd County, Kentucky. There is an unsourced death date of 1904 in Wabash, Indiana.
I located a Civil War Draft Registration for Isaac that I have included below. I could not find a pension recorded that could be attributed to this Isaac. There was an Isaac Pittman from Indiana who served in the Civil War and had a pension record. I will have to add this research task to my ever growing list of topics to follow-up.
Isaac Pittman’s name on the draft list
Source: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865. NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes. ARC ID: 4213514. Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110. National Archives at Washington D.C.
#52Ancestors – No. 29 – John White
This post is number 29 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 am en route to Pittsburgh to attend the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP). I will be taking a course on Kinship Reliability. I decided to stop by Chester, SC to view the memorials to Ann Garner White and her husband John White. I wrote about Ann Garner in post No. 19.
I started late and traffic was heavy Saturday morning. I missed the chance to visit the library to do some research. I did visit Old Purity Cemetery and took a few photos and included two of them in this post. One is a plaque marking the site of a house of worship for Purity Church founded in 1770. The other is for John White, my seventh great grandfather killed a few years after he arrived.
Plaque marking a worship building in Chester, SC
Born 1720 in Ireland, arrived 1767 and died before the Revolutionary War
#52Ancestors – No. 26 – Feliks Budny
Posted by Caroll in Genealogy, Polish Genealogy on June 29, 2014
This post is number 26 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.
Time flies as they say. Half a year has gone by since I accepted the challenge to write about one ancestor a week. The difficult part is getting side tracked doing genealogical research instead of writing a post. Not this week. I am in the final stages of packing to move out of my condo. I need to stay focus.
I chose to post two photocopies of documents that record the birth and death of my Great Uncle Feliks Budny. He was born near Mamino, Poland in 1898 and died in 1900. He is the first born child of Adam Budny and Marianna (Mary) Borucki.
The documents were provided by Michal J. Marciniak from PolGen Research, online at www.polgenresearch.com. He did some research for me back in 2010. Michal was able to find the records at the Pultusk Archives.
Birth record written in Russian.
Death record written in Russian
The documents are in Russian which I do not read. I can identify the names of the parents and child. I still need to find out the month of birth and death. Adam departed from Hamburg, Germany on May 6, 1900, and sailed to New York. It is about a 1000 kilometers (621 miles) from Mamino to Hamburg. That could be a 5-10 day trip or longer back in 1900. Was Adam there for his son’s death or was he already en route to the new world. Mary makes the trip a year latter joining her husband in Pittsburg.
The names of the parents and child are written in Russian. I can see why there are variant spellings of Russian and Polish names based on Cyrillic writing. One could chose the Russian spelling over an English version. I used blue boxes to indicate Adam Budny, pink boxes for Mary, and two shades of purple for Feliks Budny.
The Russian spelling varies even by the writer. Both records were written by the same person. I have circled the names of the individuals. The capital letter “B” resembles a fancy C, E, or G; in English. The “d” in Adam can be written in the Russian form resembling a “g”. The last letter or letters after the “n” in Budn**, I cannot decipher. It could be the letter for, ‘y’. Which can be confusing as the ‘y’ is ‘u’ in English. I used a Cyrillic reference chart as a guide.
The ‘r’ in Marianna looks like a ‘p’. Her last name Borucki looks like Bopyukou in Russian. The name is pronounced Borutski. Budny is pronounced Boodny. My family has always pronounced Bud as in Budweiser.
Feliks name is also recorded in Russian, Феликс. Which looks like Opeunkea in the photocopy. Mary would bestow the same name on her last child born in October 1917. Adam most likely was not there for his birth. Adam “disappeared” sometime in 1917.
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