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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:47 pm
Post subject: Help with Reading Name on Ship Manifest
Hi,
Can some one help me with the name of the person Leo Pisarski is going to go meet in Omaha, Nebraska? Does it say, half-brother A. Boeling (Breling)? Does it give an actual given name for this A. Beoling/Breling? I'm having trouble reading it.
The information for Leo Pisarski is:
Leo Pisarski - Arrived: June 21, 1909 - Ship: Rotterdam - Line #28.
Leo Pisarski, age 21, laborer, from Gonsawa, left Albert (Adalbert) Rojewski (his step-father) in Gonsawa, going to Omaha, Nebraska to see "brother", (cannot figure out name)
I'm trying to figure out who Leo is going to go see. Jan (my g.grandfather), Leo, and all their siblings were listed as illegitimate on their baptismal records in Gonsawa. Only their mother's name was listed on their baptismal records. Their marriage records in Pennsylvania list their father as Wincenty Belling/Beoling/Breling. The ship manifest has a great clue on it.
Thank you for your help! Have a wonderful day!
Trish
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2022 6:04 pm
Post subject: Re: Help with Reading Name on Ship Manifest
| Trish wrote: | Hi,
Can some one help me with the name of the person Leo Pisarski is going to go meet in Omaha, Nebraska? Does it say, half-brother A. Boeling (Breling)? Does it give an actual given name for this A. Beoling/Breling? I'm having trouble reading it.
The information for Leo Pisarski is:
Leo Pisarski - Arrived: June 21, 1909 - Ship: Rotterdam - Line #28.
Leo Pisarski, age 21, laborer, from Gonsawa, left Albert (Adalbert) Rojewski (his step-father) in Gonsawa, going to Omaha, Nebraska to see "brother", (cannot figure out name)
I'm trying to figure out who Leo is going to go see. Jan (my g.grandfather), Leo, and all their siblings were listed as illegitimate on their baptismal records in Gonsawa. Only their mother's name was listed on their baptismal records. Their marriage records in Pennsylvania list their father as Wincenty Belling/Beoling/Breling. The ship manifest has a great clue on it.
Thank you for your help! Have a wonderful day!
Trish |
Hi Trish,
You have a good eye, to read as much of this as you did.
As I see it, the manifest does not say half brother, it says step brother (same meaning, though).
I see Breling but cannot decipher the letter in front of it. I have looked through both pages of the manifest and compared all other capital letters to the thing that precedes Breling, but still cannot tell you what it is.
Have you looked at the 1910 census to see who lived at 2918 South 26th Street in Omaha?
Sophia
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 12:12 pm
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Hi Sophia,
Thank you for taking the time to look at the ship manifest and the census records. I wasn’t sure if the address was 2918 South 20th Street or 2918 South 26th Street. I also forgot how to look up census records by using the address so I appreciate you looking it up for me. I did not find a Breling, Belling, or Boeling in the census in Omaha, Nebraska.
Now per Ancestry.com transcription, they list the person that Leo Pisarski is going to as A. Breling. However, looking at records in Gasawa/Gonsawa, I’ve seen the surname of Boeling looking the same way. (Note: I did see on the ship manifest that the “BR” in Brooklyn looks the same as the “Br” in Breling.) I did find an August Belling in the City Directories for Omaha. I’m trying to locate more information on August Belling.
I find this all interesting due to the following information I have on the Pisarski family.
Piotr Bening/Bolinka remarried Florentyna (nee. Golubska) Pisarska in Gasawa. Florentyna is the grandmother of Leo. (Note: Piotr was listed as Piotr Bolinka on his first marriage record.) Piotr and Florentyna had a daughter named Maria Bening/Boeling in 1859. Maria is listed as Bening on Birth record and Maria Boeling on marriage record. Maria married Ladislaw Zorkowski. (Note: I found the surname Sorkowski interesting on census record you found.)
The other interesting tidbit is Franciszka Pisarska (daughter of Augustyn Pisarski and Florentyna Golubska) had 7 “illegitimate” children per the Roman Catholic Baptismal records from Gasawa. The surviving children list Wincenty Belling on their USA marriage records.
Is this A. Breling a son of Wincenty Belling?
My other questions are: If Wincenty Belling wasn’t a Catholic, could this be the reason why the children were listed as illegitimate? Or maybe because Wincenty Belling and Franciszka Pisarska were not married. I still have to go through the civil marriage records for Wincenty and Franciszka to see if there is one.
Thank you for your help and advice.
Trish
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:36 am
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Hi Sophia,
Thank you for taking the time to look at the ship manifest and the census records. I wasn’t sure if the address was 2918 South 20th Street or 2918 South 26th Street. I also forgot how to look up census records by using the address so I appreciate you looking it up for me. I did not find a Breling, Belling, or Boeling in the census in Omaha, Nebraska.
Now per Ancestry.com transcription, they list the person that Leo Pisarski is going to as A. Breling. However, looking at records in Gasawa/Gonsawa, I’ve seen the surname of Boeling looking the same way. (Note: I did see on the ship manifest that the “BR” in Brooklyn looks the same as the “Br” in Breling.) I did find an August Belling in the City Directories for Omaha. I’m trying to locate more information on August Belling.
I find this all interesting due to the following information I have on the Pisarski family.
Piotr Bening/Bolinka remarried Florentyna (nee. Golubska) Pisarska in Gasawa. Florentyna is the grandmother of Leo. (Note: Piotr was listed as Piotr Bolinka on his first marriage record.) Piotr and Florentyna had a daughter named Maria Bening/Boeling in 1859. Maria is listed as Bening on Birth record and Maria Boeling on marriage record. Maria married Ladislaw Zorkowski. (Note: I found the surname Sorkowski interesting on census record you found.)
The other interesting tidbit is Franciszka Pisarska (daughter of Augustyn Pisarski and Florentyna Golubska) had 7 “illegitimate” children per the Roman Catholic Baptismal records from Gasawa. The surviving children list Wincenty Belling on their USA marriage records.
Is this A. Breling a son of Wincenty Belling?
My other questions are: If Wincenty Belling wasn’t a Catholic, could this be the reason why the children were listed as illegitimate? Or maybe because Wincenty Belling and Franciszka Pisarska were not married. I still have to go through the civil marriage records for Wincenty and Franciszka to see if there is one.
Thank you for your help and advice.
Trish |
Hi Trish,
You're welcome! If you have need in future for finding a census record based on an address, the tool is here:
https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html?year=1910
Basically, you choose which census year you want from the menu at the top, select the state and city, enter a street address, and it will give you a link to the Enumeration District that you need. In the case of your Omaha address, it actually provided multiple Enumeration Districts, and I had to page through a few of them to find the South 26th Street address. If you want to see the same house number, but on South 20th Street, that will be in a different Enumeration District.
There are many finding tools like this that can help in your research. Check out the impressive list:
https://stevemorse.org/index.html
In answer to one of your questions, No, children would not have been categorized as illegitimate just because one parent was catholic and the other not. I never have liked this concept of labelling children based on a situation over which they had no influence, but there you have it.
As to your larger question about Boeling and variations on that spelling, you have quite an interesting knot to untie. Given that this family was from a German-speaking area, a lot of these spellings make sense based on how they sound.
If you need to type Böhling but don't have the ability to type the umlaut over the O, the accepted convention is to write Boehling. The sound is not the same as Beling or Belling, but it is reasonably close. The name as I saw it in the ship manifest above, Breling, could easily be Boeling instead, since the person writing that manifest had two styles of O. Most of the time the O was a circle, but if you look at how Brooklyn was written (many times on these two manifest pages) the O closed up quite a bit and could be indistinguishable from an R, in my opinion.
In short, I think you are on the right track to continue tracing all of the Belling, Beling, Boeling, Breling, etc. people you can find records for, in order to make your connection.
I wish you good luck in the search,
Sophia
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