Maria (Orlovszky) Lucas (1870 - 1954)

Born 13 Feb 1870 in Spišský Hrhov, Levoča, Slovakia

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Died 13 Oct 1954 at age 84 in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

The Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut) · 14 Oct 1954, Thu · Page 53

Mrs. Michael Lucas

Mrs. Mary Lucas (Lukocovsky), 84, of 136 Peace Street, Stratford, widow of Michael Lucas, died yesterday in Bridgeport hospital she was admitted Monday as a medical patient.

Services will take place Saturday at 9:15 a.m. in the Charles T. Pistey funeral home, 255 Barnum Avenue, and at 10 o'clock in Sts. Cyril Methodius church with a solemn requiem Mass. Burial will be in Michael's cemetery.

A native of Austria, Mrs. Lucas resided in Bridgeport about 50 years, moving to Stratford three years ago to live with a son, Stephen Lucas. She was a member of the Greek Catholic Union of U.S.A.

Mrs. Lucas is survived by two other sons, Michael and Joseph Lucas, both of Bridgeport; two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Blaner of Bridgeport and Miss May Lucas of Long Island; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Burcin of Hazelton, Pa.; 17 grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren.

Sources

• 1910 United States Federal Census; Home in 1910: 65 Beath Street in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; Home was rented; listed as Widowed Head of Household; Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

• 1920 United States Federal Census; Home in 1920: 145 Fifth Street in Bridgeport Ward 12, Fairfield, Connecticut; Widowed; Owned the home (mortgaged); Native language: Slovak; had a boarder, Steve Pucren (aged 29); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

• 1930 United States Federal Census; Year: 1930; Census Place: Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0087; FHL microfilm: 2339989

• 1940 United States Federal Census; Year: 1940; Living at 486 Central Avenue; Census Place: Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut; Detail; m-t0627-00533; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 9-156;Ancestry.com; https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2442/images/m-t0627-00533-00853?pId=129732923

• 1950 United States Federal Census; Year: 1950; Living at 486 Central Avenue; Census Place: Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut; Mother in Law to Victor Blaner. Household members (Name and Age): Mary V Lucas: 80; Victor J Blaner 49; Catherine A Blaner 48; Irene J Blaner 20; Detail: United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Bridgeport, Fairfield

• Naturalized Citizen according to the 1940 Census

• Find A Grave Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81642081/mary-lukacovsky

• "Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ3Z-D7C : Wed Nov 29 15:39:08 UTC 2023), Entry for Maria Orlovszky and Thomas Orlovszky, 13 Feb 1870.