Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:50 pm
Post subject: Francisca Rucinska
Hi, I'm looking for any information about Francisca Rucinska,My Grandmother.I think that she may have lived in Russian/Poland around 1900. She came to USA between 1910 to 1912. Her parents names are Father Jan Rucinska,Mother Julia (Bukowski) Rucinska.Siblings are John,Mike ,Mary and Anna, Mary stayed in Poland,the boys came to the USA. She married Pawel Macuga in the U.S.A. on November 12,1912. They lived in Caspian,Michigan,USA. Pawel G. Macuga was from Dobrynia,Poland Which I think was occupied by the Austrians? This is about all I know about Her ,I've been looking for years and I'm at the end of the road I don't know where to go from here so any help would be greatly appreciated !!! PWM
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:49 pm
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Hi PWM~ Have you eliminated Franciszka Rucinska, age 18 who arrived May 1, 1912 from Bremen on the ship Konigin Luise (line 30 on the manifest). She’s indexed on Ancestry as being Polish, from Russia, birth location Chrafinia (Ellis Island indexed it as Chrafur)? She was going to someone with the surname Rucinska(or i) in Buffalo NY. I can’t determine the relationship or the first name. The nearest relative in Russia is an aunt (maybe surname Halinska) from a town, Plock, Russia. She appears to be traveling with Franciszka Butkowska (line 29 on the manifest), age 21, maybe it says from Drazno, Kalisch where her father Marcin Butkowski was living. FB was going to her cousin Franciszek Butkowski in Buffalo.
I mention this entry because Butkowska(i) is so close to Bukowska(i) which you say is FR's mother's maiden name. ~PL
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:52 pm
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PL, I thought maybe the relationship of the person Franciszka was going to was mother, but I could be wrong. I can't make out the name either. The Franciszka on the manifest has the same birth year as Pawel/Paul's wife Frances in the 1920 census.
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:15 pm
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PWM, I see that Frances' age is consistent with the age of the Franciszka on the ship manifest in 1940 as well (I don't have access to the 1930 census right now). In 1940, I also see that Paul and Frances are naturalized citizens. You should find her birth place in her naturalization record. I didn't find a naturalization record for grandmother, but her birth place was in my grandfather's papers, which I sent for from the National Archives for $10. I wrote about it on this forum at Polish Origins towards the bottom of page 1:
http://tinyurl.com/or7ym7k
If they married in a church, sometimes the register will have the village where they were baptized, along with their parents names.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:46 am
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Cheri and PL
I read her name as Maryanna. Compare the capital M with Marcin Rutkowski on the line above.
I read the place as Meclowka. Being in Plock area I think it is the misspelling of Mleczowka.
Gilberto
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:21 pm
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I agree with Gilberto – I see the village of F. Rucinski’s aunt as Mlecowka (just missing the z in Mleczowka). Do you agree Gilberto that I interpreted the aunt’s surname correctly? Also did you look at who she was coming to in Buffalo? Neither Cheri nor I could figure out the relationship or first name.
Paul & Frances are indexed in 1920 and 1930 censuses as Masuga. In 1920 Paul arrived in 1904 and Frances in 1910, both were aliens. In 1930 Paul arrived in 1909 and Frances in 1911, both were naturalized. Until the Cable Act was passed Sept. 22, 1922 a wife was automatically naturalized when her foreign-born husband was. Unfortunately neither of them show up in the Ancestry’s U.S. Naturalization Record Index, apparently because Michigan is not included in that database.
Ancestry also shows Paul departing Hamburg on 23 Feb 1907 (age 17 from Dobrynia) and again on 5 Dec 1908 (age 17 from Dobrunia), but only arriving in New York on 26 Dec 1908 – Father Jozef and going to uncle Michal Macuga. Maybe he was sent back the first time, perhaps because he was actually 16 or younger which might have been too young to enter if he was on his own. In 1907 he was traveling with Wojciech Brej from Dobrynia. In 1908 he was traveling with Franciszek Brej to Cleveland but there were also 3 other Brej’s traveling with them – Jakob, Maciej & Stanislaw as well as a Wojciech Macuga (father a Pawel in Dobrynia) and they were all going to 4 different people living at the same address (a box #) in Vulcan, Mich.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 5:35 pm
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Polish Librarian,
I read aunt's surname as Hal....mirska? ....mierska?
And coming to mother Konst(ancya) Rucinska.
Gilberto
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:12 pm
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PL wrote about Ancestry not having an index for Michigan Naturalizations. Family Search does, but only for the Eastern District, so Paul and Frances Macuga will not show up there. I was happy to find my grandfather's name in an index before I sent for his papers from the National Archives, but it really wasn't necessary. In that link that I gave, I wrote about the information that was needed when applying. I remember that there was a range of years that you need to fill in. It might have been as much as a ten year range, so if they were both aliens in 1920, and naturalized by 1930, that range of years might be okay. Also, if they don't find your grandparents' papers, I don't think that they would charge you anything.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:48 pm
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Earlier I posted some info regarding naturalization records for the Upper Peninsula of MI for Pepse. This is what I said, but substitute your county - I believe that's Iron County - for Gogebic in this quote and look at the link to see what it says for Iron County:
| Quote: | | So if you now try Michigan, based on the info here http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mhc_sa_circular10_49699_7.pdf , I would give the Michigan Archives a call and ask for advice. This document says the naturalization records for the Western District of the Federal District Courts (you want the Marquette location) are at the NARA Records Center in Chicago, BUT the dates covered are Indexes to 1915, Declarations to 1909, and Petitions to 1915. So I'm not sure this is your best bet. That's why I'd start with the Michigan Archives. Tell them what you know with dates and ask if their records (the list indicates they have Gogebic records from 1887-1980 with no online index) include an index to naturatization records for Gogebic County. I would assume there is a print index so they should be able to look and see if your Wojciech is listed. |
~PL
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:59 pm
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Good news! I just followed through with my instructions from my last posting. Paul/Pawel Macuga is listed in the index for Iron County - V48 P139. Frances isn't listed so she probably piggy-backed on Paul's naturalization which means there might not be info about the exact place she was from in the record - but maybe there would be info about when she came - not sure how much spouse info is provided. According to the info here http://seekingmichigan.org/about/indexes , you can order naturalization records with the link on this page. Apparently it cost $20 per name.
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