BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved

Subject: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 02:05 PM

We figured it out..the family's name was spelled Vucinovich..my sister remembered his first name Emil and his wife's name Rosetta..it turns out he was not my father's cousin but married my father's cousin, who is Rosetta Devery Rex...anyway, once I had the spelling, I went onto a message board for the family, and heard from someone who has amazing history..a watch from Franz Joseph, a marriage into the Vucinovich fammily, people were staying with each other in Seattle, someone was born on a boat in Egypt, someone died at sea. The men were fish butchers, packers etc. and at least one sounds like a fisherman. I am still a little unclear about where they came from..I guess from wherever was Yugoslavia in one census, Austria in another..they spoke Slovenian..but there were a lot of Italian names and I guess the land kept switching rulers...very interesting stuff.

Now, next mystery..my sister also remembers my great grandmother's name was Crean or Crehan..I had never heard her name...she was such a mystery..came over from Ireland in probably 1847.at the age of 7 or 8..came over all alone..my sister said she landed in New York, and was adopted...I had never heard she was adopted either (I was bad at listening to family history which is very depressing) ..but I had heard she worked for the Tafts..I presume Ohio but they were also in New York..but a famous one fell in love and wanted to marry her. So how does a 7 year old get to Ohio? I have contact Taft family historians and haven't found out anything. I am starting to wonder if she was one of the urchins who ended up in a New York orphanage and came on an orphan train. She ended up in Iowa and married John Devery, a farmer. Oh, also we wonder if he could be related to the famous "Big Bill Devery" bad bad guy in New York history.

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 02:21 PM

I love this kind of stuff! Thanks for the update, Mary!

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: Ron Davies
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 03:23 PM

Mary--

How about telling us about Big Bill Devery? Sounds intriguing.

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: mg
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 04:04 PM

I don't know much about him other than what I found on googling Devery on internet. He was a very corrupt chief of police in New York, started the Yankees, was big into graft. He came with his family during the family. He was a big guy...involved in Tamany Hall politics...on the Devery message boards everyone seems to be related to him. I am not sure if I am or not. The Deverys seem to have been flax farmers in County Offally Ireland and were originally French who came at various times..also spelled Deveraux..I am descended from John Devery, an Iowa farmer born 1817 (Clermont Iowa). Not sure how he came here. I am a genealogist's dream I am finding out because all 4 of my father's grandparents came from Ireland and converged in Clermont Iowa by the 1860s or so. But I don't know more about Big Bill but he was a crook. I sort of prefer to think I might be relateed to Cornelius Lyons, famous harper (name of my great grandfather, but dates don't match up) mg

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: mg
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 05:23 PM

well, just found out a bit about ggm Maggie Lyons...she spoke only Gaelic (I had heard that someone did)..would not be surprised if Timothy Garvey and brothers did since they came from Dingle...m, wore red petticoats and smoked a clay pipe..second cousin I just spoke to said also cigars...was from Tralee...she said County Trillie was how it was put in the obituary...but thinks it was Tralee..I am not aware of there being a county Tralee..thought it was a village..or better yet, a fairy place. Might have been a situation where farmers sent off to Ireland and elsewhere for brides...she came to New York in 1850...I'll check ship records .....mg

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: Ron Davies
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 02:13 PM

Thanks for the info on Devery. French connection sounds very likely. Consider the "Wild Geese".

Maggie "wore red petticoats and smoked a clay pipe"--what a picture!   Thanks for that also.

Subject: RE: BS: Jusinovitch mystery solved
From: mg
Date: 08 Apr 07 - 02:39 PM

I think that is where I got my sophisitcation from..mg