Genealogy notes file

Posted by Michelle on Sep 30, 2013 in Michelle

This is a working ‘question’ file I’ve been keeping.MATERNAL SIDE:

FRED (Alfredo) FALCONER
Birth 18 May 1892 in Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Death 1 Nov 1976 in Chapel Hill, Orange, North Carolina

Did Fred Falconer arrive at age 10 or 16 from Italy?
Did he come over from Tuglie with his cousin Ippazio Saccomanno?
Was anyone else on that boat with them?
Was the family member left in Tuglie ‘his sister Luisa’? (FOUND NO SISTERS, maybe sister in law:
Was Fred’s brother Cesare? Did he go back to Italy? (YES, he was)
Was the family member meeting Fred and Ippazio in fact Fred’s father (Guiseppe/Joseph) who was already in the US?
What city was that on the forms? Taylor, PA? (TYLER, PA)
Why can’t I find anyone else with ties to them?
Did Guiseppe have a sister named Guiditta who was the daughter of Salvatore Falconieri and married Francesco Emmanuel Laccaria in Leece in 1891ish? Did Fransesco own land in Diso? (NO)
Who were Carl Calo and Josephine Jaskoniak (could be spelled Jaskowiak) (godparents to Jim)? (in the Tuglie records, i found a Salvatore Saccamanno who married a Marina Calo). (CARL was COSIMO CALO, also from Tuglie and Fred was his daughter’s godfather)
Who were Angelo Rych and Valentine Wisiniski (witnesses to wedding)?
Where was the marriage license granted if Pittsburgh has no records but the Iowa Diocese says the wedding was at Holy Family in Pittsburgh on April 29, 1913.
He does say both parents are from Italy on 1930 census.

HELEN (Elena) STELLA ZURAVICI FALCONER
Birth 29 May 1898 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Death 8 April 1967 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA

Was her last name Zuravich or Zuravici? I think Zuraweic
Her baptism was in Wianuwo dice Lublin? Did that mean Wieniawa, http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWieniawa_%28Lublin%29
Did she really immigrate to the US in 1903?
She says she is a naturalized citizen in 1940 but I see no records. Why?
Parents? Siblings? Anything. (PARENTS – Wojciech & Franciszka (sp))
Why was Shorovitz listed in the obituary as her maiden name? Or Shore on her form for daughter’s marriage? DId her family change their name? Or error?
Where did she meet/marry Fred? Fred lists living in PA from 1908-1923 on his passport app (which was filled out in 1923) (POSSIBLY in Tyler as there was a big Polish group with the Italians)
Why was the Pittsburgh house in her name? Who was the guy living there, Joe Baci?
Why can’t I find anyone else with ties to them?
Who were Carl Calo and Josephine Jaskoniak (godparents to Jim)? (FOUND Charles Calo’s daughter and spoke to her)
Who were Angelo Rych and Valentine Wisiniski (witnesses to wedding)?
Where was the marriage license granted if Pittsburgh has no records but the Iowa Diocese says the wedding was at Holy Family in Pittsburgh on April 29, 1913.
Why only a third grade education? And wedding at 15?

Wojciech & Franciszka Zuraweic
Was last name Zuravich or Zuravici? I think Zuraweic
Daughter’s baptism was in Wianuwo dice Lublin? Did that mean Wieniawa, http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWieniawa_%28Lublin%29
Did they really immigrate to the US in 1903 with Helen?
Listed as born in Germany but so was Helen – wartime Poland?

CAESAR (James or Jim) FREDERICK FALCONER
Birth 12 Mar 1914 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
Death 24 Nov 1997 in Hillsborough, Orange, North Carolina

Was his military intelligence work Avonics as I guessed? YES.
Were Grandma and Grandpa in fact in married in DC? ANSWER: YES, Municipal Courthouse.
What went down between Grandpa leaving the priesthood and Officers Training School that got Grandma from Iowa to DC to marry him?

JEANNETTE AGNES PUGH FALCONER
Birth 16 Jan 1918 in Iowa
Death 28 Dec 1987 in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Did she graduate from Mercy? ANSWER, YES, in 1938.

1910 Pittsburgh Census
-Allegheny
Sharpsburg, district 0228 – nothing

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PATERNAL SIDE:

PETER DONAHUE SR (altho there are four Peter Donahues in a row)
Birth June 29, 1840 in Doolin, County Clare, Ireland
Death November 18, 1903 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Who was left in Doolin?
How are we connected specifically with the O’Donoghues from Ireland who have visited with my second cousin Digger and family? They had older relatives who were keeping in touch with great-aunt Delia.
Where are the immigration records from when he came over at 13 with the family?
What happened to the Donahue Brothers Construction company?

PETER DONAHUE
Birth 1790 in Doolin, County Clare, Ireland
Death September 13, 1874 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Pete and his wife Mary O’Connor lived on Fisher Street in Doolin. Were they for sure related to Gus O’Connor who would open the pub four doors down that would be come the famous O’Connor’s pub in Doolin?
Where are the immigration records from when he came over at 63 with the family?

ELLA MONAHAN
Is she Elizabeth Donahue?