by antimafia » Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:57 pm
antimafia wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:14 pm
chin_gigante wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:08 am
That's great stuff on Borelli and Bordonaro, antimafia.
For Borelli's spouse "Betty V", ancestry has pushed a few hints saying that she could be a Violet Pryslak, born Aug 8, 1909, in Winnipeg. I don't have a clear link between her and Borelli to say for sure but that may be Betty V.
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I decided to go down the rabbit hole. This Violet Pryslak sounds interesting: one MyHeritage record shows she had the middle name "Wanda," the record of one border crossing indicates she used the alias
Betty Price, she stated her nationality as German when crossing the border one particular time, stated her nationality as Polish on another cross-the-border occasion, and her parents were born in Austria per the Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch (search of databases can be done at
https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php).
And I found out that a V.B. Borelli who had the same DOB as Violet Pryslak had died on July 18, 1978 in Wayne, Michigan per the Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records (see
https://www.ancestry.ca/discoveryui-con ... cessSource). She might have been just visiting Michigan temporarily.
I'll try calling the Fairview Cemetery and/or try the number/email for the Niagara Falls Cemetery Services -- while I'm at it, I'll try to get both an exact DOD for Felix Borelli and confirmation of his parents' YOBs and YODs, as I've seen some conflicting records. I suspect I'll be redirected to either the Niagara Falls Museum or the Niagara Falls Public Library.
Below is some of the information I finally got around to obtaining from Niagara Falls Cemetery Services (Ontario).
DOD for Felix Joseph Borelli: Dec. 24, 1999
[we already had his Date of Burial: Dec. 28, 1999]
First name(s) and middle name(s) for the wife of Felix Borelli: Betty Violet Borelli
[the cemetery has only these names in its record for her, with her maiden name being unknown; details that I was hoping to have confirmed or corrected: first names Wanda or Vanda; middle names Betty or Violet; maiden names Pryslak, Pryslake, Prysiak, or Price]
Confirmation of names, years of birth (YOB), and years of death (YOD) for Felix Borelli's parents:
Natale Borelli: 1858 to May 4, 1928
[the cemetery does not have his birthday]
Antoinette Borelli née Grande: June 20, 1874 to September 26, 1943
[the cemetery has only this first name in its record for her; details that I was hoping to have confirmed or corrected: first names Antoinette or Antonia, as the latter appears on her and Natale's gravestone]
@faffy444,
Both Betty Borelli's place of death (POD) and her parents' names are unknown by Fairview Cemetery. If you want me to send you a PM about why I think her POD was Detroit, why she might have sometimes used the maiden name Price, why there seem to be a number of first and middle names for her, and what I believe her parents' names to be, just let me know -- I don't want to derail the thread; in addition, I want to keep some branches of her family tree private.
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That's great stuff on Borelli and Bordonaro, antimafia.
[color=#FF0000]For Borelli's spouse "Betty V", ancestry has pushed a few hints saying that she could be a Violet Pryslak, born Aug 8, 1909, in Winnipeg. I don't have a clear link between her and Borelli to say for sure but that may be Betty V.[/color]
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I decided to go down the rabbit hole. This Violet Pryslak sounds interesting: one MyHeritage record shows she had the middle name "Wanda," the record of one border crossing indicates she used the alias [i]Betty Price[/i], she stated her nationality as German when crossing the border one particular time, stated her nationality as Polish on another cross-the-border occasion, and her parents were born in Austria per the Manitoba Vital Statistics Branch (search of databases can be done at https://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php).
And I found out that a V.B. Borelli who had the same DOB as Violet Pryslak had died on July 18, 1978 in Wayne, Michigan per the Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records (see https://www.ancestry.ca/discoveryui-content/view/1127922:3171?tid=188161955&pid=152451315826&queryId=5b5f84213dda915177022431dfcc5768&_phsrc=ScI323&_phstart=successSource). She might have been just visiting Michigan temporarily.
[color=#0040FF]I'll try calling the Fairview Cemetery and/or try the number/email for the Niagara Falls Cemetery Services -- while I'm at it, I'll try to get both an exact DOD for Felix Borelli and confirmation of his parents' YOBs and YODs[/color], as I've seen some conflicting records. I suspect I'll be redirected to either the Niagara Falls Museum or the Niagara Falls Public Library.
[/quote]
Below is some of the information I finally got around to obtaining from Niagara Falls Cemetery Services (Ontario).
DOD for Felix Joseph Borelli: Dec. 24, 1999
[we already had his Date of Burial: Dec. 28, 1999]
First name(s) and middle name(s) for the wife of Felix Borelli: Betty Violet Borelli
[the cemetery has only these names in its record for her, with her maiden name being unknown; details that I was hoping to have confirmed or corrected: first names Wanda or Vanda; middle names Betty or Violet; maiden names Pryslak, Pryslake, Prysiak, or Price]
Confirmation of names, years of birth (YOB), and years of death (YOD) for Felix Borelli's parents:
Natale Borelli: 1858 to May 4, 1928
[the cemetery does not have his birthday]
Antoinette Borelli née Grande: June 20, 1874 to September 26, 1943
[the cemetery has only this first name in its record for her; details that I was hoping to have confirmed or corrected: first names Antoinette or Antonia, as the latter appears on her and Natale's gravestone]
@faffy444,
Both Betty Borelli's place of death (POD) and her parents' names are unknown by Fairview Cemetery. If you want me to send you a PM about why I think her POD was Detroit, why she might have sometimes used the maiden name Price, why there seem to be a number of first and middle names for her, and what I believe her parents' names to be, just let me know -- I don't want to derail the thread; in addition, I want to keep some branches of her family tree private.