{"id":15914,"date":"2012-04-23T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2012-06-06T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:58:11","slug":"the-stephanie-meleski-household-in-the-1940-united-states-federal-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15914","title":{"rendered":"The Stephanie Meleski Household in the 1940 United States Federal Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My half-grandaunt,\u00a0Stephanie Meleski, was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0several roomers\u00c2\u00a0at 16 Charlton St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Left.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15915\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Stephanie Meleski Household (Left)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Left.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Stephanie Meleski Household (Left)\" width=\"540\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Left.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Left-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Left-1024x531.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0Meleski Household\u00c2\u00a0(Left)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15916\" title=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Stephanie Meleski Household (Right)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Right.jpg\" alt=\"1940 US Federal Census Record for the Stephanie Meleski Household (Right)\" width=\"542\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Right.jpg 1506w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Right-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940-Right-1024x529.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0Meleski Household\u00c2\u00a0(Right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: 1940 U.S. Census, Worcester County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Worcester, enumeration district (ED) 23-181, sheet 1B, household 16, Stephania Meleski; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 10 April 2012); citing National Archives microfilm publication T627 roll 01718.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 US Federal Census Record for the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CUS-Meleski-Stephania-1940.pdf\">Stephanie Meleski Household<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephania Meleski\u00c2\u00a0lived at 16 Charlton St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA on 01 April 1940,\u00a0she was household\u00c2\u00a016 in order of visitation,\u00a0she rented her apartment for $45 per month, lived in\u00c2\u00a0Worcester on 01 April 1935, and did not live on a farm<\/li>\n<li>Stephania Meleski\u00c2\u00a0was head of household, provided the information for the census, was a white female, 35 years old, single, was not attending school, completed\u00c2\u00a01 year of high school, was born in Poland, was not an American citizen, worked\u00c2\u00a060 hours during the week of March 24-30, was\u00c2\u00a0a lodger (meaning she ran a rooming house) at home,\u00a0worked\u00c2\u00a0on her own account, worked 52 weeks in 1939, earned $1000, and did not earn more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Elise Carrier, a roomer in Stephania&#8217;s apartment, provided the information for the census,\u00a0was a white female,\u00a079 years old, widowed, was not attending school, completed 8 years of school, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, was not working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was not seeking work, did not have a job or business, was unable to work, and\u00c2\u00a0earned more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Blanche M. Moore, a roomer in Stephania&#8217;s apartment, was a white female,\u00a032 years old, widowed, was not attending school, completed 8 years of school, was born in Worcester, was not working the week of March 24-30, was not doing public emergency work, was seeking work, did not have a job or business, was unable to work, normally worked in private work, and earned more than $50 from sources other than wages<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Dirienzo was the son of a roomer (presumably the son of Blanche M. Moore), was a white male, 10 years old, single, was attending school, completed\u00c2\u00a04 years of school, and was born in Worcester<\/li>\n<li>The final line after this household states &#8220;Person Enumerated AT HIS HOME&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My half-grandaunt,\u00a0Stephanie Meleski, was enumerated in the 1940 US Federal Census with\u00c2\u00a0several roomers\u00c2\u00a0at 16 Charlton St, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA. The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0Meleski Household\u00c2\u00a0(Left) The 1940 US Federal Census Record for the\u00c2\u00a0Meleski Household\u00c2\u00a0(Right) SOURCE: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-15914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chmielewskimeleski","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-48G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16178,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15914\/revisions\/16178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}