Month: June 2019

Katazyna Stranz

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This has been one of my more difficult prayer cards to research.  I was only able to find one record of her on Ancestry and nothing on My Heritage.

It is the 1910 US Census.  The entire page is in the same handwriting so I can’t be sure if the enumerator was accurate.  Here is what I know, in 1910 she was 25, born in Germany about 1885.  Her husband Frank was 26 at the time.  They were married one year.  Frank shows an immigration year of 1905.

Eight years later she at 33 she was gone.  I did not find a 1915 New York Census for either of them.  I suspect there is a misspelling of their names.

 

Sources:

  • New York Department of Health; Albany, NY; NY State Death Index
  • City of Buffalo; Buffalo, NY; Index to Deaths in Buffalo, New York
  • Year: 1910; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 9, Erie, New York; Roll: T624_943; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 1374956

Wednesday Translation

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Holy Memory
God the Best, the Biggest
Katazyna Stranz
Counts 57 years
She died on July 14, 1918.
The funeral home with mourning P. N. 158 Titus, ul. to the Church of Saint. Lukasz 17 July 1918,
Body placed at the St. Stanislaus Cemetery B and M.

Prayer
The most merciful Jesus. through the goodness of Your Heart, please deign this soul for all your sins, that I may obtain Your pleasing for your humility.
Hail Mary etc.
Eternal Rest etc.

And Tomaszewski
Funeral
1303 Sycamore Street. Buffalo, NY

Rev. Jan Pitass

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Johann (Jan) Pitass born in 1844 in Niemiecki Piekary which was part of Germany at the time. He arrived in Buffalo, New York in early 1873.  In June 3 that year he was ordained a priest.  His first task was to build a Catholic Parish in Buffalo for Polish immigrants.  October 17, 1886 saw the opening of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, Church at 123 Townsend St..  A cemetery was started in the eastern Suburb Cheektowaga, New York.  The church complex included residence for the parish priests and nuns teaching at the elementary and high school.  There is also a social club that included a bar added in the 1960s. 

The census shows Jan living at 123 Townsend from 1880 to 1910.  In 1910 his Nephew Alexander Pitass, 35 was also a priest at St. Stanislaus Parish.  Alex stayed as pastor for 40 years after his uncle’s death.

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday Translation

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Rev. Jan Pitass
Founder of the parish of St. Stanislaus B.M. in Buffalo, N.Y. and for forty years, an undying parish priest.

He was born on July 3, 1844.
Ordained a priest on June 7, 1873.
Fell asleep in the Lord December 11, 1913 year

Let him give me eternal rest, Lord. May eternal light shine forever. Amen

Prayer.
The God from whose staff Your servant John was elevated to the holy dignity of the priesthood and so honored became apostolic activities and affairs. I am asking you. that he be placed in the eternal tabernacle of Your Apostles in Heaven, through Christ our Lord, Amen

Good Lord Jesus
Give him eternal rest

Jan Faltyn

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The latest in my Prayer Card research is Jan Faltyn.  I have found several near the city but based on his wife’s name Johanna I have narrowed it down to a family that lived on Sears Street.  This also makes sense since Sears Street has the Corpus Christi Hall/bar/Bowling alley that is part of the church complex that my family was a part of.

In 1905 the new New York State Census the family lived at 138 Sears Street.  Jan and Johanna had six children: John 15, Louis 13, Francis 10, Clara 4, Ambrose 1, and Vicky 5 months.

According to the 1915 New York State Census the family included one son and two daughters; Ambrose 11, Vicky 10, and Helen 8.  They still lived at 138 Sears.

In 1919 Jan is shown living at 147 Sears St.  He is now a janitor.  The city directory does not list the rest of the family.

When 1920 rolls around the family is living at 129 Sears St.  The widower John is now living with his daughter Francis Miles and her husband Frances Miles.  Also in the home is his grandson Henry Miles, children Vicky, Ambrose, and Helen.  The homes in this area were usually three bedroom single homes or two bedroom doubles.  I assume this was a double since the censu shows another family of eight living at the same address.

1925 show Jan and daughter Helen living at 254 Person street.  Five years later daughters Helen and Clara are living with their father at 254 Person St..

Three years later Jan was buried at St. Stanislaus Cemetery, section Nowa II.

 

Sources:

  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 02 June 2019), memorial page for Jan Sr. Faltin (1865–1933), Find A Grave Memorial no. 108350549, citing Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA ; Maintained by gravefinderStStans (contributor 47637865) .
  • New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 07; Assembly District: 05; City: Buffalo Ward 16; County: Erie; Page: 29
  • New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: E.D. 03; City: Buffalo Ward 11; County: Erie; Page: 54
  • Year: 1920; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 10, Erie, New York; Roll: T625_1102; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 79

  • Year: 1930; Census Place: Buffalo, Erie, New York; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 0135; FHL microfilm: 2341161

  • New York Department of Health; Albany, NY; NY State Death Index

  • City of Buffalo; Buffalo, NY; Index to Deaths in Buffalo, New York

Wednesday Translation

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SP
Jan Faltyn
He died on February 1, 1933.
The funeral took place on February 4 from the house of the estates of the n. 254 Person of the Street, to Saint Joachim’s Church.
Delays placed at the cemetery of Saint Stanislaw B.M.
Sekcya Nowa 2nd Line 11th Grob 28th

Prayer
The most merciful Jesus, through the goodness of your heart, let this soul forgive you of all sins, that I may be able to forgive you with humble prayers.

Franciszek Mioducki
Funeral
206 Clark Ul. Buffalo, NY
Telephones: Jeff. 6917. Jeff. 2653.W

Franciszka Glinska

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Another installment of the prayer card posts.  This one had been difficult, there is very little I can find on Frances Glinska.  The street she lived just before her death no longer exists in Buffalo.  She died in 1926 but in 1929 many streets were moved or renamed after the opening of the New York Central Terminal.

I did find that she was married to Wincenty Glinski.  No marriage date or place.  A death date for him was not found but it does seem that he died prior to 1917.  In 1917 Frances was living alone at 124 Sobieski Street in Buffalo’s East Side.  Her occupation is listed as saleswomen.

1918 I find her in the city directories as a clerk.  There is no list of where she worked.  She was still living at 124 Sobieski.

In 1920 she is a dressmaker still at 124 Sobieski.  After this I lose track of her until her death and burial at St. Stanislaus Cemetery.

Source:

 

  • New York Department of Health; Albany, NY; NY State Death Index
  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 02 June 2019), memorial page for Franciszka Glinski (6 Jan 1877–25 Mar 1926), Find A Grave Memorial no. 125352003, citing Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA ; Maintained by gravefinderStStans (contributor 47637865) .
  • Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  • Year: 1920; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 15, Erie, New York; Roll: T625_1103; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 116
  • Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  • Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

  • City of Buffalo; Buffalo, NY; Index to Deaths in Buffalo, New York