Ancestry Chapter 17
1897 - Norek Children, Another Birth, Death of a Tybus Aunt
Anna Norek born 1897, Chicago, Illinois
Anna Norek is born on August 30, 1897 and christened Anna Helena on September 5th.
She is the fourth daughter, and the seventh child, born to Helena and Michael Norek. She will be the youngest who survives to adulthood.
Anna is listed on the LDS Internet-available database under the name Anna Marion Norek – a listed made many years later by her son Ray. Curious is that her name there is listed as Anna Marion, not Anna Helena.
Left. The 1897 record of Anna Helena Norek’s birth to Michael Norek and Helena Tibus, and christening, St. Paul's Catholic church, Chicago.
Anna’s godparents are John and Anna Boehnlein. The Norek’s reside at 109 23rd Street.
Helena Norek is now 40. A mother with six children under the age of 9. (I am fudging a little bit here -- Lucy will be 9 in a month.) Michael Norek is close to his 33rd birthday.
Michael and Helena have been in the U.S. five years. They are now well eligible for citizenship, but they don't apply.
Helena and Michael's sister, Anna Tybus, dies 1897, Pr. Stargard, West Prussia
Anna Tybus, the middle of Helena and Michael Tybus' three older sisters (the one who married a much older man when she was thirty) died on December 28, 1897, at the age of 47. Here, like Theophil., the death was registered in the Catholic Church at Pr. Stargard rather than Dirschau.
Aside.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, a celebrated U.S. photo-journalist, was born in Dirschau, in
1898. He was born into a prosperous family. His father owned a department
store.
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