KADECKI /Kadetsky

The KADECKI surname seems to have been centered around Biezun, Poland and we've found several records to indicate that all KADETSKIES in the US came from that area.

The US records also indicate that the KADETSKIES centered their lives around the Boston area, except for one branch that moved back to NY city.

My great grandmother's brother had his first four children in NY and the oldest of them moved back there and many of his descendents are there.

The KADETSKIES have a plot in the Chevra Kaduscha Cemetery in Woburn, MA, and finally there amongst them, we were able to find my great grandmother's grave. I suppose nobody thought that is where it could be, and I assume, with no basis but intuition, that because she died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 they wanted to bury her fast and her brother already had a plot. Her Hymoff children were too young at the time, so they didn't recall that fact. She also seems to be the first one buried there, but now there are more than 20 Kadetsky graves.

My greatgrandmother's Hebrew gravestone reads: Hadel Ester daughter of R'Yitchak Yehoshua (in English merely ADELINE HYMOFF) and her brother's says:

Avrohom Yosef son of Yitzchok Hoshua.

His wife's states: Shifra daughter of Binyamin

1900 Census records show that

they are recorded in NYC at 108 Allen Street (well, Adeline is not there, but she must have been close by!) . With them was a "brother in law" named J. Kaufman, who might be Shifra's brother.

Isaac KADETSKY was in the next house down - I doubt it was a coincidence. They are recorded as Kadeskca.
According to these papers, Isaac was born in Russian Poland on July 14, 1854 and was 33 when he signed his first papers on the 19th of some month in 1887. Abraham J was born in 1861 and Adeline in 1866, so they might have been the younger siblings..... or cousins. Jacob was a peddler (born in Russian Poland in Sept. 20, 1853 and age 46 when he signed his pledge in 1899 (although he first applied to become American in 1876 in NY where the record might still be!)

Isaac and Jacob KADETSKY became US citizens in Boston but both stated they arrived in the US via NY. Their families were included automatically in their naturalistion. So we need BMD (birth, marriage, death) records to see who were their spouses and children. Their arrival dates are almost identical: Jacob on July 1, 1871 and Isaac on June 28, 1871, so I assume they travelled together and one mistook the date (or both and they arrived on June 30 - who knows. More research is required to ascertain that fact. I am more interested in relationships than exact dates, so if anyone is willing to find that out and tell me, I will include it.

To date I have reconnected with Abraham's grandchildren and slowly we will try to put the pieces of the puzzle together. I hope as we all share our family lore we can put together a picture of who they were and what their lives were like. Even if we didn't know them, they had a hand in who WE are!

Adeline KADETSKY / WATERS / HYMOFF

My great grandmother Adeline (Esther Hadel) KADETSKY was born in 1866 in Poland, we think in or near the town of Biezun in Plock Gubernia, as it seems that is where all Kadetskies originated. She emigrated to the US with her brother Abraham and his wife Shifra, Scillia or Celia, in 1879 and they lived first in NY and later in Boston.

According to Adeline and Abraham's gravestones, their father was named R'Yitchak Yehoshua.  We have no further information on  him to date.

Adeline married a man surnamed Joseph WASSERZUG and in 1885 had a son called Simon, known as SI WATERS or HYMOFF depending on the sources. She later divorced her husband and in 1889 or 1890 married my great-grandfather Israel HYMOFF. They married in a civil ceremony in 1903, I assume because she still had to finalise her civil divorce . They had five surviving children: Dora (b. 1891) , Gustave (b. 1895), Grace (b. 1898), Charlotte (b. 1903) , Sara (b. 1904), and the Boston vital records bureau has records for other Hymoffs, a baby girl who died in 1897 aged 7 months called Lena, and Rachel born in 1894 for whom no further records have been found to date but we know she didn't survive.

Hymoff children c. 1905

The civil marriage between Adeline and Israel took place in April 1903 (see above marriage record). In 1910 Israel is recorded in the census as being an imate of Rutland State Sanatorium in Massachusetts and Adeline and her children living on Magnolia Street in Boston (see census record on later post) . It gives her maiden name as Zettock, but nowhere else does that name appear, so we will just keep looking for documents. 

Adeline died on Christmas Day in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 leaving her children in the care of her oldest daughter Dora. Simon helped the family out financially, reportedly having inherited a considerable fortune from his biological father.  

Finding information on her has been quite a chore: Adeline's daughters were sad that they did not know where their mother was buried and could not visit her grave, however, we were able to find it, when we least expected to.

Adeline's brother Abraham and his wife had an extensive family and after several years of trying I was finally able to find some of his great-grandchildren and take up contact with them. We are now exchanging information and I am happy to have reconnected the family, which over the generations grew apart. We might set up a reunion one of these days, if we can agree on where on earth to do it!