Jadviga Janowski, known as Ida, was my paternal grandmother. She was born in Lithuania in 1894 and came to the United States in 1910. She married Anthony John Yakas in 1914, at age 23, and was living with him and their three children at 48 Williams street in New Britain, CT in 1930. The earliest evidence for their residence at this address is 1927. She lived at that address until 1963 when she moved in with her son Robert.
She reports the inability to read or write in 1930 but was able to speak English. During a boarder crossing from Canada to the US with her brother Wesley, she reports her name as "Mrs Ida Hicks". This is the latest date I have seen the use of the name Hicks until her husbands death in 1951 when the children all become Hicks(es). (Perhaps when she was on a trip without her husband she felt freer to use the name). She had two brothers, Wesley who lived with his wife Annie in New Britain, and Frank who lived in Canada. Her children were Anthony, Robert, and Jadviga H. Yakas (also "Ida")
She died Oct 29, 1968 at the age of 74.
Anthony John Yakas and Jadviga Janowski Yakas with children "Ida" standing, and Anthony sitting. Taken in New Britain about 1921.
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