The Meleski Families in the 1940 Worcester City Directory

My Meleski (Chmielewski) cousins were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk’s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass) City Directory .  Rita A. Meleski, Francis J. Meleski, and Harry J. Meleski are the children of my maternal grandmother’s half-brother, Joseph Chmielewski .  Stephanie B. Meleski is the half-sister of my maternal grandmother.

1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Meleski Families

SOURCE:  Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1940, p. 659, Meleski Families; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 February 2012); citing Polk’s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory Vol. 1940 XCVII, Boston MA: R. L. Polk & Co.

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Meleski Families. The brief record states the following:

• Rita A. Meleski was a social case worker for the Board of Public Welfare and resided at 36 Clifton St
• Francis J. Meleski, husband of Evelyn M., was an eng (engineer) in charge of the city incinerator in Albany near Casco and resided at 120 Endicott St
• Harry J. Meleski was a lawyer at 390 Main rm (room) 640 and was head of household at 139 Endicott St
• Stephanie B. Meleski was head of household at 15 Charlton
• The other Meleski’s named in this entry are, as far as I know, not related to me

Using Steve Morse’s One-Step Webpages, I learned that Rita A. Meleski’s residence at 36 Clifton St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts was located in enumeration district 23-175 in the 1940 United States Federal Census .  I also learned that the residence of Francis J. Meleski and Harry J. Meleski at 139 Endicott St in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts was located in enumeration district 23-126 in the 1940 United States Federal Census .  Finally, Stephanie B. Meleski’s residence at 15 Charlton was located in enumeration district 23-181 in the 1940 United States Federal Census.

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