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| Catherine left Poland as a teenager with a friend aboard the Koln on Feb. 4, 1909, sailing from Bremen, Germany, and arriving at Ellis Island on Feb. 19, 1909 — only nine days after her brother, Joseph, made the same journey. She was probably 18 (according to her birth certificate), though the ship's passenger manifest listed her age as 17. See her passenger ship records from the National Archives. The Ellis Island Web site added her name in June 2001, but misspelled her home town as Kannen (it should be Kamien). The ship Koln, incidentally, steamed the Atlantic from 1899 to 1914, held 1,970 passengers (120 second class, 1,850 third class) and measured 54 feet wide by 429 feet long.
The Koln
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She grew up in the town of Kamien (see map) and in the Przemysl Roman Catholic diocese in the administrative district of Nisko in the province of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland (then called Galicia, part of the Austrian empire). The family name was also spelled Dalenta (the name on her immigration ship's manifest list) and Dalanta, but Catherine came to adopt her older brother Joseph's spelling of Delenta, as did her brother Luke. She married at age 22 — George Lasica's hometown was less than 10 miles away from hers in Poland — and was naturalized in Hackensack, NJ, perhaps on Sept. 19, 1935. After they were married in 1913, George and Catherine Lasica lived with George and Sophie (Lasica) Jadenski for a few years at 39 Fourth St. in Passaic, NJ. Later they bought the wonderful house at 8 Herman St. in East Paterson (later Elmwood Park), a block from Garfield, NJ. She traveled on occasion to Toronto to see her nephew, Adam Lasica, and his family. We called her "Babci," Polish for Grandmother. She was well loved, and the day she died was one of the few times I saw my father cry. |
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| Immigrated to New York at age 19, arriving on Feb. 13, 1912, aboard the Zeeland (port of origin: Antwerp, Belgium). Became a naturalized citizen at age 42 in Hackensack, NJ, on Sept. 19, 1935. Worked most of his life as a baker. Nickname "Pop," though we called him Dziadziu (Ja-ju). Name is pronounced Wa-SHEE-tsa, since there's no letter L in Polish. |
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May 12, 1913, St. Joseph's Church, Passaic, NJ |
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