Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 2
• Arrival: 26 Sep 1949, New York, NY; aboard the SS General Haan
• Naturalization: 19 Apr 1960, New Bern, NC

Atis married BERKMANIS, Velga on 14 Dec 1963 in Hartford, CT. Velga (daughter of BERKMANIS, Janis Robert and KURENIS, Vera Regina) was born on 22 Mar 1944 in Aloja, Limbazi, Latvia; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2022, West Hartford, CT

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 8

Atis married VITINS, Alice. Alice was born in St. Petersburgh, Russia; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _COLOR: 2

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He was a bookkeeper for a firehouse.

Janis married KURENIS, Vera Regina on 6 Dec 1943. Vera was born on 7 May 1922; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Social Security Number: 035-18-5559
• _COLOR: 6
• Residence: 1930, North Providence, RI; Address:
  Eddy Street
• Residence: 1 Jan 1936, Greenville, RI
• Milit-Beg: 17 Oct 1942, Providence, RI
• Milit-End: 5 Feb 1946, Fort Devens, MA
• Residence: 1951, North Providence, RI; Assistant Foreman at Brown & Sharp Machine
• Residence: 1952, Johnston, RI; Assistan Foreman at Brown and Sharp Machine
• Residence: 1953, Johnston, RI; Assistant foreman at Brown & Sharp Machine
• Residence: 1957, Alexandria, VA

Notes:

John Caranci Sr. was a toolmaker turned spy. He worked for the CIA from 1955 till his retirement. He was credited with inventing innovative ways of spying during the post-war period in Japan and broke up a major spy-ring during that time with the "James Bond" type of spy gadgets he invented and made.

He worked as a plumber with his brother Anthony in North Providence and also at Brown & Sharpe where he learned the tool making trade; Uncas Manufacturing (where he broke his leg playing semi-pro football); and Pratt & Whitney in Providence. When P&W moved to E. Hartford, CT. Uncle Buddy (Charles Boorom) moved with them commuting at first from Providence then moving to Windsor Locks, CT for a short period. Through his brother Joseph, John got a job with the CIA as a tool maker.

He served in the US Army in the Field Artillery 1942-1943; and as a surgical tech in the Medical Corps 1943-1946 during WWII, in the Aleutian Islands (Attu and Shemya) June 1945-Jan 1946. He received the Good Conduct Medal; Asiatic Pacific Theater Campaign Ribbon; American Theater Campaign Ribbon; and the Victory Medal decorations. According to his army records he enlisted as a PVT on October 17, 1942. His term of enlistment was for 5 years or '..for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months,....' . He had 2 years of high school education.

Curiously, John was offered the grounds keeper job at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT before Grampa (Charles French) was, through Carl Storey, who was business manager there. His wife Janet, was sister to Aunt Helen Mason (French), Uncle Stanley's wife.

Places lived: Morgan Avenue, Johnston; Waterman Avenue, Centredale; Greystone Ave, Graniteville; Mineral Spring Ave, N. Providence; Indian Head, MD; Alexandria, VA; Yokohama/Yokosuka, Japan; Alexandria, VA; Frankfort, Germany; Centredale, RI.

He met his wife, Norma I. French, at dances held at St. Edwards Church in N. Providence on Friday nights. They separated for a short time some where between 1948-1950.

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GRID=63090701

Residence:
He attended William Winsor Public School and was in the 9th grade. He had had the measles

Milit-Beg:
A surgical tech in the Army. He attained the rank of E-5 (T5) and was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon, American Theater Campaign Ribbon, and the Victory Medal. He spent 7 months in the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Shemya at the 329th Station Hospital, just after WWII.

Residence:
Edsall Road

John married FRENCH, Norma Imogene on 19 Jun 1943 in Centerdale, RI, and was divorced on 21 Sep 1964 in Alexandria, VA. Norma (daughter of FRENCH, Charles Kimball Worcester and SMITH, Frances Alma) was born on 25 Feb 1925 in Bar Mills, ME; was christened on 19 Jun 1932 in Providence, RI; died on 21 Jun 1991 in Torrington, CT; was buried on 24 Jun 1991 in Buxton, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cemetery: Buxton, ME; Address:
  South Buxton Cemetery
• Ref#: 939
• SSN issued: RI
• Social Security Number: 036-18-3382
• _COLOR: 6
• Confirmation: 16 Feb 1936, Providence, RI
• Residence: 1940, Providence, RI
• Residence: Oct 1961, Lakeville, CT
• Residence: 1990, Torrington, CT

Notes:

In the 1930 Census she was listed as residing in the household of her aunt, Hazel Marie (Smith) Pinkham, in Hollis, ME. She went to live with them as her father and mother were not able to keep all their kids together during the Depression.

Norma moved from Alexandria VA to Lakeville, CT in Oct of 1961, after being separated from her husband of 19 years. Prior to that she lived in Providence, RI where she met her husband. She lived in Japan from 1957-1961 with her family.

She was employed for most of her life (30 years) as a printer for The Hotchkiss School, a private prep school in Lakeville, CT. She also had jobs as a secretary, bookeeper, and waitress. She was a recovering alcoholic.

She never remarried after her divorce and raised her children alone. She was eulogized as a tireless, hard working woman and loving mother who did her best during difficult times to support and raise 4 boys virtually on her own.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church

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GRID=63078014

Confirmation:
St. Thomas Episcopal Church

Residence:
Meadowview St.

Died:
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital

Buried:
43.608949, -70.539350

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Divorced:
The legal grounds or cause of divorce was "Desertion". My mother and her children were told by my father to "get out", from what little information I got from her. She never told the whole story of their separation/divorce. He was the plaintiff in the divorce and it's hard to imagine that desertion was the cause, when he was the one to tell us all to get out.

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• Departure: Hamburg, Germany
• SSN issued: CT
• Social Security Number: 048-18-8556
• _COLOR: 6
• Arrival: 23 Sep 1929, NY
• Residence: 1930, Manhattan, NY

Notes:

He joined the German army in 1915. He was 2 years in training and achieved the rank of "corporal', an officer over 8 men. He saw active duty from Aug 1918 till the Fall of 1919. His whole regiment (East Prussian Regiment #18) was captured while in the trenches (dugouts) on the 8th of August 1918 near Verdun, Villers, Brittany. The English advanced behind tanks up their trenches. He recalls being only a few feet from a soldier who was killed in the trench while picking lice out of his shirt. A grenade landed next to the soldier and killed him. He was unable to do anything for the soldier.

He was in Lily during that summer (1918) in a POW tent. He cleaned cavalry stables and ammunition during his captivity. He contracted diphtheria while in an English POW camp. Put in an isolation tent, an injection to his lower abdomen cured him. As a POW he was given bread (the size of a saucer for 5 men), water, bullion and lime. (Related to David Caranci son-in-law on his 94th birthday)

He came to America on January 7, 1927 on the S.S. President Harding, sailing from Bremen, Germany. He was 28 years old and single. He listed his occupation as 'carpenter'. He could read and write German. He listed Volpersdorf as his place of birth ( it is now Wolizborz, Poland). He was issued an immigration Visa #14511 from Berlin on Feb 11, 1911. He listed his last permanent residence as Hausdorf, Germany (now known as Woliborz, Poland). He listed his next of kin as his father, August, in Hausdorf, Silesia. His final destination was NY, NY for which he had a ticket . He had $25 in his pocket and it was his first time in the US. He was going to his sister, Rosa Prause, 240 E 83rd Street, NYC. He said he intended to live the 'always' and intended to become a citizen. He was in good physical/mental health, was 5'6" tall had fair complextion, blonde hair and green eyes. He was traveling with his cousin, Elsie Dreschner who was 19 and listed her occupation as 'servant'. Her home town was Keustwitz, Germany. Her father was Franz Dreschner, Keustwitz, Silesia. She was 5'5" tall and was going to stay with her cousin Rosa Prause at the same address.

He returned to Germany and then re-entered the US as a "Returning Resident Alien" in 1929 aboard the S.S. Albert Ballin. He listed his occupation at that time as a 'joiner' with his last permanent address as NYC. His nearest relative or friend was his sister, Rose Prause, 520 W. 131st Street, NYC.

He returned to Germany again and then re-entered the US as a "Returning Resident Alien" on Sept. 4, 1931 aboard the S.S. Hamburg. He listed his occupation at that time as a 'joiner' with his last permanent address as NYC. His nearest relative as his father, August Prause, Hansdorf (actually Hausdorf) 426, Germany. His nearest relative in the US was his sister, Rosa Prause, 226 E. 85th Street, NYC.

He returned to Germany again and then re-entered the US as a US citizen on Feb 25, 1937 aboard the S.S. Europa under passport number 350676. He was married at that time and listed his residence as Box 115, Sharon, CT .

Birth:
This town was Volpersdorf, Germany prior to 1945

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GRID=68393671

August married STENDER, Milanny Luiese on 18 Feb 1934 in New York, NY. Milanny (daughter of STENDER, Jochim Heinrich and HANSEN, Ida Caroline) was born on 2 Jan 1906 in West Ham, Essex, London, England; died on 11 May 1996 in Sharon, CT; was buried in Sharon, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Hamburg, Germany
• SSN issued: CT
• Social Security Number: 045-32-7933
• _COLOR: 6
• Arrival: 16 Nov 1925, New York, NY
• Arrival: 22 Feb 1934, Sharon, CT
• Naturalization: 15 Jun 1936, Winsted, CT
• Departure: 13 Jun 1956, New York City, NY
• Residence: 1996, Sharon, CT

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Milanny came to the US on the S.S. Albert Ballin arriving in NY on Nove mber 16, 1925 with her father Henry and her brothers Henry, and Rievert . She was 19 and listed her occupation as 'household ???'. She lists h er last permanent resident as Wyk and her mother Ida Stender, Wyk auf F oehr Grove Strasse 52 as her last address where her mother still lived. H er destination was Brooklyn, NY. She had never been in the US before a nd was going to the home of a friend (of the family) Emil Ney, 638 Fult on Street, Brooklyn, NY. She was 5'4" tall with a ruddy complexion, bl onde hair and blue eyes. She worked as an "in stellunk" (German 'in place') which means domestic w ork, i.e. cook, waitress and chambermaid type work with her sister Mine .

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GRID=68393755

Arrival:
Onboard the ship "S.S. Albert Ballin" VFP603993, sailing from Hamburg, Germany on the 6th of November, 1925. Jochim was already in the US (Brooklyn) and went to Germany to bring his family to the US on this trip.

Naturalization:
At the time of her naturalization she was working as a maid in the house of Emily Schwab, Sharon, CT. Her husband was their chauffeur

Departure:
With her mother on a trip to Germany, aboard the ship "Italia" bound for Cuxhaven, Germany. They were visiting family on the island of Fohr.

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Residence:
520 W. 131st St., Manhattan, a chauffeur