Ancestry Chapter 41
1920-1921 Mozart Street, More Children, Grandchildren, Weddings
The Norek's move to Mozart Street, 1920-21, Chicago
The Mozart Street home, a brick two-flat at 3931 N. Mozart, is the Norek home that is remembered best by many.
The Norek's are now north-siders, not south-siders, and so they root for the Cubs!
The move is made after the January 10, 1920 Census interview and before Ruth's birth on August 30, 1921. This home is owned.
Photographs of the Norek home
at 3931 N. Mozart.
Photographs are more current
but it looks the same as it was then.
A two flat brick building
with front porch
and second-floor balcony.
School at St. Benedict's, starting in 1920-21, Chicago
Starting with the move to 3931 N. Mozart, the Norek children attend school at St. Ben's.
Walk half a block up Mozart to Irving, hang a right, cross California, past Cal park, over the bridge (north branch of the Chicago river), past Paul Revere park, cross Western, past Martha Washington hospital (opposite side of Irving), past the bakery and you are there. (A number of grandchildren would also take that walk.)
Michael Norek with a horse. Horse unknown as is the date of this photograph. Guesses as to who the boys are include Leo and Harold (Lucy's children) or two of Alfons Tibus' boys.
Norman born, 1920, Chicago
Cecilia and Matt's fourth child, Norman, was born in 1920
Norm's recollections of his childhood home would not be upstairs on Mozart Street, but instead at 2314 Winnemac in Chicago. The front room was heated with a coal stove, and the kitchen was heated with a garbage burner.
Either the boys or the girls (disputed even now) had to climb a ladder into the attic to sleep at night. Anna Norek Pohl and her new family would live in the next block.
Left photo.
First thought to be Michael Norek,
but close up suggests Uncle Alfons,
on an outing.
Guessing about 1920
based on the cars in the background.
Anna Norek Marries Joseph, 1921, Chicago
In 1921, Anna Norek 24 marries Joseph, 28. Anna is the youngest of the first-batch children who survived to adulthood. She was just 9 when Helena, her mother, died.
Anna's father, Michael Norek, loved to dance. Presume he danced at Anna's wedding, but hopefully not with Antonia – because she is expecting their seventh child very shortly.
Ruth Norek
born 1921, Chicago
Ruth A. Norek (Sister Ruth) was born to Antonia and Michael Norek on August 30, 1921. She is their seventh child. The second-batchers now are Michael Jr. almost 13, Josephine about 10, Pete 7, Gert 5, and Dorothy 3.
City of Chicago, County of Cook Certificate of the 1921 birth of Ruth Norek. Note the misspellings -- "Novek" -- "Antonette" -- "Tibux." Careless, indifference or incompetence? Parents' place of birth is given as West Prussia for both.
Aunt Ruth’s birth certificate was pulled in the 1970s when required for her return to Ghana.
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