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!

Why I got into genealogy

Both of my parents kept me well informed on their family history, my mother made up a photo album of family pics for each of her children and we have copied our albums for each other (back then one couldn't scan or copy photos easily). Once I got seriously interested in genealogy I began scanning and e-mailing pictures around and getting other pictures from relatives and compiled quite a few different albums for the different lines. I'll be putting all that stuff on here as I get around to it.

But I want to start with my favourites: My father gave me a box of ancient photographs, but didn't really know who all those people were. One picture always haunted me. I wanted to know who they were and what their names were. Since my great-grandmother Tobei REDLER KRAVETSKY is a family legend (although nobody has been able to tell me exactly why...but almost all her grandchildren have a child named after her, as I also am) and there are good pictures of her and since the woman in my mystery picture is so obviously related to her, I took a good guess that those were her parents. It took five years and a cousin's visit to Odessa to finally find out the names of these two people with the sad eyes: my paternal great great grandparents,

Berko and Iosya REDLER from Kherson Gubernia in the Ukraine.

The other reason I got involved in all this is because my father always told me that I was the last of our name: that his grandfather was an orphan, his father an only son as he was, and so I was the last of the HYMOFFs, except for some relative of that name in Paris, whose connection my father did not know and who we have not been able to find yet.

Since my father was a professional historian, I assumed he had all the facts and that was that. One day I googled him, expecting to only find lots of entries for him and his work. Well , I was right about that, there were over 14.000. Five of me. And, surprise: lots of other Hymoffs!

That of course was a total shock and I began to try to find out who those other Hymoffs were! Since my great grandfather was widowered early, it could have been that he married again and had a new family, but someone would have told me about that, I hope. Or a family feud split up some brothers who never spoke to each other again... and maybe I had lots of cousins I had never met....

Fate would have it that it has been easier to trace those other Hymoffs than it has been to trace mine. So far I have been able to establish that we are not related in the 5 generations since they all emigrated to the US. My ggf Israel Hymoff claimed to be from Lublin, Poland - whereas the other Hymoffs are respectively from Minsk, Belarus; Iasi, Romania and Volhynia Oblast, Lutsk. Technically speaking, they are geographically close enough for some family connection to be possible. But we're working on finding out if that is so.

Israel Hymoff arrived in the USA in June of 1889, as he claims on his "First Papers" for US Citizenship. The other Hymoff families arrived after 1906. I've been in touch with several members of each one of those families (genealogy is great for making new friends) and we have exchanged a lot of information (and jokes).

 

Then there are alterative spellings - that is a whole other matter...

I've also had a lot of help from more experienced genealogists and would like to once again thank you all for teaching me, sharing your experience with me, getting me over rough spots, giving me tips to get information faster, translating documents from Polish and Russian and gravestones in Hebrew for me and bearing with me in this exasperating, but extremely rewarding, hobby!

Israel Hymoff married Adeline (Hadel Esther) Kadetsky Waters around 1890 (civil ceremony in 1903) which links in the Kadetskies - a large tribe that have been very helpful in providing information, although we still have not managed to link "My" Kadetskies to Gary and Mark's.

Happy Hunting to us all!   

Please contact us at:    Kadetskyfamilyhistory@gmail.com