Antonia Markovna Wojciechowicz

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Sexe: femme
Conjoint(s):
    Ignatz Fedorovich Poplaski Frank

Enfant(s) (Date de naissance):
    Mary Cathryn Poplaski (20 novembre 1921 )

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Évènement(s):
    Naissance : 20 avril 2023 Russie
    Mariage :


Note(s):
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Courriel (email), 20 avril 2023 by Steve Vanier and Stephen Charles Vanier

My mother's middle name is spelled "Cathryn" and not "Catherine".
Her Father' name is Ignatz Fedorovich ["Frank" in the USA ] Poplaski, [Note: The family thinks Poplasky should end "y" as they were ethnic Russians and spoke only Russian, but we all know since neither could speak a word of English, church and immigration officials may have misspelled the last name, thinking there were Polish, where last names usually end in an "i".]
o Her mother's name is Antonia [not Anna] Markovna Poplaski
I was incorrect about where they first landed in North America. They never emigrated to Canada, but this is the way they traveled from Europe to America:
Ignatz Fedorovich "Frank" Poplaski acquired a "green card" allowing him to work in the USA, and he went overland from Minsk, Belarus, to Hamburg Germany, where he took a ship to Boston, Massachusetts in 1910 leaving his wife Antonia and newborn daughter Nadja behind in Minsk, Belarus. Two years later in 1912, when Nadja was 2 years old, Frank sent for Antonia. However, there was civil unrest at that time between Belarus and Poland, and the borders were closed. To get to America, Antonia had to "escape" and not just travel. Antonia had to leave 2-year-old Nadja in the care of Frank's parents. As our family story goes, Antonia was in a group of people that paid border guards to ferry them across a river, but at the last minute, the border guards said there was a surprise inspection occurring, and the group was on its own. They had to swim the river to get away from Belarus. Antonia traveled overland through Poland and Germany, and took a ship from Hamburg, Germany, to the USA, arriving in Boston harbor. "Frank" met his wife in Boston harbor, and they took a taxi from Boston to Great Barrington, Massachusetts where they lived their lives and had 5 more children, including my 101-year-old mother Mary, who spoke this information to me today, April 19, 2023. - - Stephen Charles Vanier.

My two sisters were baptized as:
- Karen Antonita Vanier [I got her middle name correct the first time]
- Christina Anndora Vanier [I misspelled her middle name using only one "N" the first time].
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