Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:34 pm
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I'm trying to decipher the town of origin for an ancestor named Nellie Kida, who came to Lewiston, Maine, in 1906 with two cousins also named Kida. There are two attached files. The first one is the whole page from the passenger list. The second is a selection from the image showing the handwritten place name, just below the word "Austria". This, of course, means that the place was in the Austrian empire in 1906, which should help a little. The nearest I can come is Lastrwika. Can anyone help? Is the name Kida familiar to anyone, and if so, do you know what part of Poland the family might be from?
Many thanks,
Ted Russell
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:28 pm
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Maybe Lastowska?
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:02 pm
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Thank you very much! The town name is very close. And thanks also for the stevenmorse.org site - it is fantastic.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:18 pm
Post subject: Re: Decipher town name for Kida ancestor - 1906 passenger li
tedrussell wrote: | I'm trying to decipher the town of origin for an ancestor named Nellie Kida, who came to Lewiston, Maine, in 1906 with two cousins also named Kida. There are two attached files. The first one is the whole page from the passenger list. The second is a selection from the image showing the handwritten place name, just below the word "Austria". This, of course, means that the place was in the Austrian empire in 1906, which should help a little. The nearest I can come is Lastrwika. Can anyone help? Is the name Kida familiar to anyone, and if so, do you know what part of Poland the family might be from?
Many thanks,
Ted Russell |
Ted,
I clearly read it as Laskowka. There were three in what was then Galicia:
Laskowka
Laskowka Chorazka
Laskowka Dalastowka
now two of them in malopolskie and one in podkarpackie.
Gilberto
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:52 pm
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Muito obrigado, Magroski49. I found Łowisko, and also all three Laskowkas, on a map. Łowisko is only about 2 miles (3 km) from Kamien, near Nisko, podparkaskie. Kamien is the town where Nellie's husband came from in 1905, so I think she must have come from Łowisko. I am confused, though, because the handwritten name certainly looks more like Laskowka.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:54 pm
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tedrussell wrote: | Muito obrigado, Magroski49. I found Łowisko, and also all three Laskowkas, on a map. Łowisko is only about 2 miles (3 km) from Kamien, near Nisko, podparkaskie. Kamien is the town where Nellie's husband came from in 1905, so I think she must have come from Łowisko. I am confused, though, because the handwritten name certainly looks more like Laskowka. |
Ted,
SteveMorse.org also show some Kida coming from Wulka (Wólka) Letowska. Since this place is very close to Kamien and Lowisko (map attached) I am now inclined to think that the name was misspelled in the manifest: could it be Le(s)towska written there?
Gilberto
P.S. Just noticed these ones and yours Kida were all going to Lewinston, ME. Bingo!
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:29 pm
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Gilberto, I think you've solved it! Thanks again to you and sirdan.
Ted
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:54 am
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One more question: Where on the stevenmorse.org site did you find more Kidas coming from Wulka Letowska? I'm just starting to learn about all of what is on this fantastic site.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:23 am
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tedrussell wrote: | Gilberto, I think you've solved it! Thanks again to you and sirdan.
Ted |
Ted,
Wolka Letowska 1890 birth records in parish Letownia:
http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/59/1236/0/-/1?q=letownia+XSKANro:t&wynik=1&rpp=15&page=1#tabSkany
Lowisko 1889 on birth records in parish Lowisko:
http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/59/1481/0/-/1?q=lowisko+XSKANro:t&wynik=2&rpp=15&page=1#tabSkany
Kamien:
http://www.szukajwarchiwach.pl/59/1480/0/-/1?q=kamien+XSKANro:t+XARCHro:59&wynik=2&rpp=15&page=1#tabSkany
Kamien, now I see, is written in the manifest, on the right side of the word "Laskowska"
all in Latin, columnar format.
Nellie declared she had never been before to the USA, which makes sense since she was just seventeen. However, Nellie is not a Polish name. Maybe you will have to look for her as Aniela? PetroNELLA?
Gilberto
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:25 am
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tedrussell wrote: | One more question: Where on the stevenmorse.org site did you find more Kidas coming from Wulka Letowska? I'm just starting to learn about all of what is on this fantastic site. |
Ted,
I have narrowed the search by marking the ethnicity boxes: austrian, galician, polish.
Some Kida names will lista Wulka, Wolka Cestowska (misspelled), etc.
Gilberto
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:05 pm
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Gilberto, thank you for the link to the church archives. I'm quite familiar with these documents, having spent many hours searching through similar archives from Moravia, on the following site: http://actapublica.eu/
From this work, I know the key to quickly finding a particular record is finding an index. In the Moravian archives, the volumes were nicely organized by volume so that you could always find the index on the last few pages of a volume.
Nellie Kida reported her age as 17 on 4/13/1906 (excuse me for using the American standard for dates). This makes her date of birth between 4/14/1888 and 4/13/1889. However, her marriage record from 8/21/1920 says she was 32, and the US Census on 4/1/1930 says she was 42. Combining these two places her date of birth between 8/22/1887 and 4/1/1888, which is earlier than the period determined from the age on the passenger list.
I'm going to assume she had just turned 18 when she came on the ship, but reported her age as 17, and search through the latter date period in 1887-8. Then I'll continue the search into 1889.
Ted
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:27 am
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Gilberto, the records you provided start in 1889 or 1890. Are there any records available from earlier years? I have found many Kidas in the Lowisko archives, but Nellie was born a year or two earlier.
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:43 am
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tedrussell wrote: | Gilberto, the records you provided start in 1889 or 1890. Are there any records available from earlier years? I have found many Kidas in the Lowisko archives, but Nellie was born a year or two earlier. |
Ted,
I could not find any, even in Diocese Archives. I am afraid they must be destroyed during the wars. Or records for earlier years where kept somewhere else, I don't know.
Gilberto
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:55 am
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That's what I figured. Thank you for looking. I do have the names of Nellie's parents from another source, but they do not correspond to the names of the parents for any of the many births I found in the Records.
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