Line 14 is Edna Margolies, age 25, a Hebrew Russian woman born in St. In at least three places in this immigration record, Riva's line 15 is tied to line 14 with a curly brace, seeming to indicate that lines 14 and 15 are traveling together. According to this two-page record, Riva last lived in Samolta, Russia. If you pronounce either of those, they are close to Osernoff. Her last name was originally written Asernova, but that is scratched out and Oscinofsky is penciled above. Among the passengers is a 9-year-old Hebrew Russian girl (born ~1904) named Riva or Rive, born in St. On the New York side, the Imperator arrived at the Port of New York on 29 October 1913, having sailed from Hamburg on. Searching the immigration records, we find a likely candidate. She emigrated from Hamburg, Germany on the Imperator in October 1913, arriving at the port of New York on or about the 30th October 1913. This declaration says she was born in Starai Russa, Russia on 8 June 1904 and resides (as of 1926) at 2435 Dickens Ave, Far Rockaway, NY. Researching the variations and possible alternative transliterations of her name (Reva/Reve/Riva Osernoff/Osenroff/Osinov etc.), we find a declaration of intention for naturalization for Reva Osernoff dated 24 Sept 1926. Have you located death records and/or obituaries for all of the male Axels in these census records? Perhaps one lists a surviving spouse with a name similar to Reva. Axel in her marriage record, have you considered the possibility that Reva Osernoff married one of the Axel brothers and then was widowed? That would account for both the name change and the middle initial O. Regarding the discrepancy between Reva Osernoff living with the Axel family in 19 and later Reva O. Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930 (despite the title, it includes the 1940 Census).Smith, Prologue Magazine Summer 1998, Vol. “Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married.naturalization papers, depending on the time period (see Further Reading)Ĭlues to a person's Naturalization status can be found in some census years (see Further Reading).The cards with the subject header CHANGE OF NAME are numbered and the film appears to show the numbers from highest to lowest and run from Ancestry image numbers 1527 to 1943. NARA microfilm publication T458, name-indexed and published on Ancestry as their database U.S., Subject Index to Correspondence and Case Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1903-1959. an entry in the Subject Index to Correspondence and Case Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1903-1952.historical newspapers (legal notices for an official notice, or mentions in the newspaper to narrow the date range for a change of name.This doesn't help us for your particular problem because your example takes place after 1912. Recorded in the county clerk's office in the county where the person The court order changing a personal name is Starting in 1861 and continuing through 1912, lists of names changedīy the courts (stating the old and new names, date of change, andĬourt ordering the change) were published in the annual session laws Any person overĪge 21 could petition a county-level court to issue an order changing In addition, an 1847 statuteĪuthorized a court proceeding for the same purpose. Through a special act of the Legislature. Prior to 1875 a change in a personal name could be accomplished The New York State Archives' online research guide Records of Name Changes says, in part: The other relevance of the SS5 is that it gives her parents' names. Indeed, in 1936, she submitted her SS5 application for the US Social Security system in the name of Barclay Bruce, even though there was no formal change until 2y later. So this is one possible documentation for the change of name.Ĭlearly, since this includes the formal request, she has nevertheless been able to use the new name without formalities for at least some purposes (e.g. When it came to submitting her Petition for Naturalisation to the Southern District Court of New York in 1938 the petition was made out for "Augusta Barclay Bruce, also known as Barclay Bruce" and in fact it includes a section formally requesting the name change to Barclay Bruce. She then moved to New York City in the 1920s where she increasingly used Barclay as her first name, eventually dropping the Augusta. She informally (presumably) and intermittently altered her name in Kansas City by dropping the first name and using Barclay as her given name. My Great-great aunt, Augusta Barclay Bruce, emigrated to the USA in 1909. I can't comment on the legal situation in NYC but I can give one pertinent example of a documented name change.
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