Ancestry Chapter 39
1918-1919 More Children, More Grandchildren, More Photos
Photograph, Michael Norek with a granddaughter
and a son.
First guessed the date of this photograph, and the ones below as summer of 1917 or 1918, but since Peter was born in the fall of 1913, the 1916 date on the photo below is probably more accurate.
If 1916,
Michael Norek is about 52.
Grandchild Helen and son Peter are about the same age. (I am certain that the
little girl is Helen, and the boy looks like Peter Norek.) Michael Norek
and Peter are wearing the same hats seen below.
1818. WWI ends. The last major battle was launched on September 26, 1918. All German monarchies (and there were many of them) are abolished.
Dolores Norek
born 1919, Chicago
Antonia and Michael's sixth child, and fourth daughter, Dolores, was born in 1919. The second-batch girls now outnumber the second-bath boys 2 to 1.
Mike Jr. is about 11, Josephine 8, Pete 6, Gert 4, and Dorothy about 2.
Antonia is only about 31, yet she is the wife of 55 year old grandfather of seven, and herself a mother of five. Still single of the older children are Steve, 25, and Anna, 22.
What a household Dolores was born into. And it gets larger!
A very lucky thing happened at the time of Dolores' birth. Someone lost or forgot to file her birth certificate. During WW II Dolores needed it to take a position helping the war effort, and there will be a form to fill out for a substitute.
Fortunately, very fortunately, that form will ask not only the country but also the town of her parents' birth. She filled out the form with her parents spelling out the names of the towns -- Dirschau and Pr. Stargard. That will be the very first record located that her father, Michael Norek, was born in Prussian Stargard.
Photograph of Anna Tibus, Antonia's younger
sister, with message on the reverse side. Badly faded photograph.
The property
of Gertrude’s family.
Photos taken in the Norek's backyard.
First Michael Jr. with tumblers, Gertrude behind Dorothy, and Uncle Father Pete riding his tricycle on the right.
Next is Poppa Michael with Michael Jr. and little Peter in
the sidecar of the motorcycle.
Both of these
photographs are from the time the Noreks
lived on the south side of Chicago, and
not yet on Mozart Street.
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