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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: moli on Saturday 21 August 10 11:20 BST (UK)
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The snippet image I attach comes from a 1904 ship's
( Brandenburg) manifest from Bremen to New York.
Please help decipher the relationship and name of the person who was listed as the sponsor.
Thank you,
moli
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Hello Moi
How about?
Dr. ? Tom MacKenzie
11 Hayers Rd, (or Hagoss Rd?)
town?
Fife
Relationship?
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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Trenton, N.J. (New Jersey)
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Hello Aghadowey
'Trenton' looks spot on!
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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Hi Moli!
I think the address is (11?) MAYERS COURT, Scranton, New Jersey, as this address does exist.
I think the first name is either Jan or Igor,
and maybe the surname is something like KLETSACKY ??
Are any of these likely from what you already know?
Cheers, Ann
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Perhaps if you could given us the passenger's name, shop and date of arrival we could look at Ellis Island record.
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Aghadowney, according to information on Ellis Island, Stephania SOKOLOWSKI arrived in the USA on the Brandenburg from Bremen on April 11, 1904. She was single and 16 years of age. She travelled with Josef and Sophia Sokolowski. Their place of origin was Wolki. The relationship of the three Sokolowski to the person who was their contact address in the USA was stated as: cousin, brother in law.
It is this contact person and address that has been giving me problems. ( see the image attached to the initial post of this message thread).
I think that Trenton is the correct city as I’ve managed to track Stephania ( Stella as she called herself ) as a married woman in Trenton, firstly in the 1910 census until her death, in Trenton, in 1978. Thanks, Ann, for the stab at Scranton which I won’t rule out. Mayers Court (or Hayers) is what jumped out at me, too.
Danchaslyn, thanks for getting things going with Dr. ? Tom MacKenzie but the Slavonic name that annmck suggests is more in keeping with the ethnicity of the people/ person with whom I am dealing. I have been trying out variations on KLETSACKY but without much success, thus far.
I would love to know Stephania’s sponsor to carry my research a step forward – by going backwards.
Thanks,
moli
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There's a Mayers Court in Trenton- see Google Maps.
Is the relative's name Stanslaw perhaps?
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Hello Moli
Upon the basis of what you've said, I'll now offer "Igor" instead of Tom, which was one of my original thoughts.
Good luck
Danchaslyn
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Thanks for the deciphering effort. Ann's (annmck) suggestions cracked it.
It was > JAN. The family name is Klepacky (Klepacki) . He turns up in both the Ellis Island immigration and Trenton, New Jersey records as Jan (John) Klepacki. He was not at Mayers Ct. in any records that I've seen, thus far, but that address exists in New Jersey.
Regards,
moli
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Hi Moli!
Very pleased I was able to help ;)
Cheers, Ann