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1 NOTE The Harper & Novak family archive
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1 NAME Patrick /Harper/
2 GIVN Patrick
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Pádraig Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Patt Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1832
2 PLAC Louisburgh parish, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE From the age remembered at his death
2 SOUR @S16@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1834
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE Aged 22 at his marriage in February 1856
2 SOUR @S2@
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1891
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE ‘The winter Parnell died’; Bridget is a widow in 1901
2 SOUR @S16@
2 SOUR @S15@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Old graveyard of Kilgeever, Louisburgh
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Townland near Louisburgh, tenant farm
2 NOTE 1856–1891
2 SOUR @S2@
2 SOUR @S1@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 FAMC @F14@
1 NOTE Relation: 3× great-grandfather
1 NOTE Patrick Harper was a small tenant farmer on the western edge of Louisburgh parish, County Mayo, where the hills run down to Clew Bay. He was a boy of about fifteen in the famine winter of 1847; family tradition says the Harpers survived i
2 CONC t by working on the relief road along the coast and that two of Patrick's younger brothers did not.
1 NOTE In February 1856 he married Bridget Walsh in the parish chapel (S2). The register gives his age as 22, which would put his birth around 1834; the age at death that the family remembers points to about 1832, and we keep both versions unti
2 CONC l a baptism turns up.
1 NOTE Patrick never left Mayo. He saw his eldest son Michael off to Queenstown in the spring of 1880 and, as far as anyone knows, never saw him again. The family says he died 'the winter Parnell died', that is 1891; the 1901 census lists Bridge
2 CONC t as a widow (S15, S16).
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0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Bridget /Harper/
2 GIVN Bridget
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Bridget Walsh
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Biddy Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1836
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE Aged 65 in the 1901 census
2 SOUR @S15@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1902
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE From a remembered letter; no death record found yet
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Louisburgh, with daughter Mary
2 NOTE 1901
2 SOUR @S15@
1 FAMS @F1@
1 NOTE Relation: 3× great-grandmother
1 NOTE Bridget Walsh grew up two miles from the Harpers and married Patrick in February 1856 (S2). Her maiden name is confirmed by the baptism of her son Michael, where she appears as 'Bridget Walsh' (S1).
1 NOTE In the 1901 census she is a widow of 65, living with her unmarried daughter Mary, and she signs with a mark (S15). She was not alive at the next census; a letter remembered in the family told Michael of her death in 1902.
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1 NAME Michael /Harper/
2 GIVN Michael
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Mick Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Michl. Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 SEP 1858
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE Baptised 3 October 1858; entry 212
2 SOUR @S1@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 MAR 1924
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S10@
1 BURI
2 DATE 5 MAR 1924
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S19@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Embarked at Queenstown (Cobh) for New York
2 NOTE April 1880
2 SOUR @S4@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Landed at Castle Garden, New York
2 NOTE April 1880
2 SOUR @S4@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Sixth Ward, boarding house
2 NOTE 1880
2 SOUR @S14@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville, Butler Street
2 NOTE 1884–1924
2 SOUR @S10@
2 SOUR @S3@
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-grandfather
1 NOTE Michael Harper was born in September 1858 and baptised a few days later in Louisburgh, the son of Patrick Harper and Bridget Walsh (S1). He grew up on the family farm and, as the eldest son, could have inherited it; instead, at twenty-one
2 CONC , he took the coach to Castlebar and the train to Queenstown.
1 NOTE He sailed in April 1880 and landed at Castle Garden in New York (S4). By the June census he was boarding in Pittsburgh's Sixth Ward and working as a labourer at a rolling mill (S14). Four years later he married Catherine 'Kate' Doyle at St
2 CONC . Patrick's church; their wedding portrait, with the inscription on the back, is one of the oldest photographs in the archive (S3).
1 NOTE Michael worked in the mills of the Strip District for nearly forty years and rose to be a roller. He and Kate raised three children in a narrow brick house in Lawrenceville. He died in March 1924; the obituary calls him 'a native of the Cou
2 CONC nty Mayo and a man well liked on Butler Street' (S10). He is buried with Kate at Calvary Cemetery (S19).
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1 SOUR @S10@
0 @I4@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Harper/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1862
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 NOTE Aged 39 in 1901
2 SOUR @S15@
1 DEAT
2 DATE BET 1930 AND 1939
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Louisburgh, with her mother
2 NOTE 1901
2 SOUR @S15@
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Relation: sister of Michael Harper
1 NOTE Mary stayed in Louisburgh, never married, and looked after her mother Bridget in old age; in 1901 she is 39 and keeps house (S15). Letters from her to Michael in Pittsburgh are remembered in the family but have not been found. She is believ
2 CONC ed to have died in Louisburgh in the 1930s.
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0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Harper/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE EST 1864
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Relation: possibly a brother of Michael Harper
1 NOTE A Thomas Harper, son of Patrick, is remembered by Kate Harper as 'the brother who went to Liverpool' (S16). No baptism has been found, so his place in the family is probable rather than proven.
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Harper/
2 GIVN Catherine
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Kate Doyle
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Catherine Doyle
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1862
2 PLAC New York
2 SOUR @S19@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1931
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S19@
1 BURI
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S19@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville
2 NOTE 1884–1931
2 SOUR @S3@
2 SOUR @S10@
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F13@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-grandmother
1 NOTE Catherine 'Kate' Doyle was born in New York to Irish parents whose names we do not yet know; she and her brother Owen moved to Pittsburgh as teenagers. She married Michael Harper at St. Patrick's in June 1884, and her copperplate hand on th
2 CONC e back of their wedding portrait is the earliest family handwriting we have (S3).
1 NOTE Kate outlived Michael by seven years and kept the Lawrenceville house full of boarders. She died in 1931 and shares his gravestone at Calvary (S19).
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0 @I40@ INDI
1 NAME Owen /Doyle/
2 GIVN Owen
2 SURN Doyle
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1860
2 PLAC New York
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1915
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F13@
1 NOTE Relation: brother of Catherine Doyle
1 NOTE Owen Doyle, Kate's elder brother, was a teamster in Pittsburgh and stood as witness at her wedding in 1884 (S3). Their parents are unknown, so the two appear in the tree as siblings without parents.
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1 NAME Ján /Novák/
2 GIVN Ján
2 SURN Novák
1 NAME Johannes Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME János Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1838
2 PLAC Kapušany, Sáros county
2 NOTE Estimated from his marriage and the birth of his children
2 SOUR @S6@
1 DEAT
2 DATE BEF 1904
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 SOUR @S26@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Kapušany, house no. 31
2 NOTE 1866
2 SOUR @S6@
1 FAMS @F3@
1 NOTE Relation: 3× great-grandfather
1 NOTE Ján Novák was a smallholder and carter in Kapušany, a village on the road north of Prešov in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary. He appears as the father in the baptism of his son Jozef in 1866 (S6). Nothing is known of his own parent
2 CONC s yet.
1 NOTE He did not emigrate. The family believes he died before his son's naturalization in 1904, because Josef named no living father in the papers (S26).
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0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Nováková/
2 GIVN Anna
2 SURN Nováková
1 NAME Anna Hudáková
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Anna Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1842
2 PLAC Kapušany
1 DEAT
2 DATE AFT 1906
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 NOTE Still alive when the Windber photograph was sent to her
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1 FAMS @F3@
1 NOTE Relation: 3× great-grandmother
1 NOTE Anna Hudáková married Ján Novák in Kapušany; the baptism of her son Jozef names her with her maiden name (S6). A photograph sent from Windber in 1906 was addressed to her — 'sent to Kapušany' is written on the back (S8).
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1 NAME Josef /Novak/
2 GIVN Josef
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Jozef Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Joseph Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Josef Nowak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 MAR 1866
2 PLAC Kapušany, Sáros county
2 SOUR @S6@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1867
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 NOTE Aged 25 on the Ellis Island manifest, May 1892
2 SOUR @S5@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1931
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S22@
1 BURI
2 PLAC St. Matthew's Slovak cemetery, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S22@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Hamburg, emigrant lodging halls
2 NOTE May 1892
2 SOUR @S9@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Ellis Island, New York
2 NOTE May 1892
2 SOUR @S5@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Chicago, near the Union Stock Yards
2 NOTE 1892–1898
2 SOUR @S7@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Windber, company house on 10th Street
2 NOTE 1898–1912
2 SOUR @S26@
2 SOUR @S8@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, South Side
2 NOTE 1912–1931
2 SOUR @S22@
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F3@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-grandfather
1 NOTE Jozef Novák was born in Kapušany in March 1866 and baptised in the parish church (S6). In the spring of 1892 he walked and rode to Hamburg, where his name was entered in the emigrant lists together with a Michal Novák from the same villa
2 CONC ge (S9), and sailed to New York. The Ellis Island manifest gives his age as 25 (S5), which is why older family trees say he was born in 1867.
1 NOTE He went first to Chicago, where Slovak boarding houses clustered around the stockyards, and in 1894 married Mária Kováčová there (S7). In 1898 the young family moved to the new coal town of Windber in Somerset County, where Josef dug co
2 CONC al for fourteen years. He became an American citizen in 1904 (S26). The Windber photograph of 1906 shows him with Mária, their children Frank and Helen, and little Rose, the orphan they took in (S8, S13).
1 NOTE In 1912 the Novaks moved to Pittsburgh, and Josef worked as a watchman at a steel works until his lungs gave out. He died in August 1931 (S22).
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0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Štefan /Novák/
2 GIVN Štefan
2 SURN Novák
1 NAME Stephen Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Stefan Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1870
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1930
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Chicago, Southwest Side
2 NOTE 1893–1930
2 SOUR @S7@
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F3@
1 NOTE Relation: brother of Josef Novak
1 NOTE Štefan followed his brother to America in 1893 and stayed in Chicago when Josef left for the coal fields. He worked at a packing house, married Zuzana Bartošová in 1899, and lived the rest of his life on the Southwest Side. He was a witn
2 CONC ess at Josef's wedding in 1894 (S7).
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0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Zuzana /Novák/
2 GIVN Zuzana
2 SURN Novák
1 NAME Zuzana Bartošová
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Susan Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1876
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1949
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F5@
1 NOTE Relation: wife of Štefan Novák
1 NOTE Zuzana Bartošová came from a village near Bardejov and married Štefan Novák in Chicago in 1899. The family knows her mainly from Christmas cards kept by Helen Novak.
0 @I44@ INDI
1 NAME Paul /Novak/
2 GIVN Paul
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Pavol Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1901
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1975
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F5@
1 NOTE Relation: cousin of Frank Novak
1 NOTE Paul, the only son of Štefan and Zuzana, became a streetcar motorman in Chicago. He visited the Pittsburgh Novaks for Helen's retirement party in 1962, the last time the two branches met.
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Novak/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Mária Kováčová
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Maria Kovac
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Mária Nováková
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 AUG 1872
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 NOTE Age and birthplace from the marriage certificate
2 SOUR @S7@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1944
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Chicago
2 NOTE 1893–1898
2 SOUR @S7@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Windber, boarding house
2 NOTE 1898–1912
2 SOUR @S8@
2 SOUR @S13@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, South Side
2 NOTE 1912–1944
2 SOUR @S25@
1 FAMS @F4@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-grandmother
1 NOTE Mária Kováčová also came from Kapušany; she and Josef knew each other as children, and she followed him to Chicago in 1893. They married in October 1894 (S7). Her name appears in American records as Mary Novak.
1 NOTE In Windber she ran a boarding house for single miners and raised three children of her own and one she chose. When the widowed Sabo family next door lost their mother as well in 1909, she took in four-year-old Rose and later adopted her for
2 CONC mally (S13). Mary died in Pittsburgh in 1944.
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0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME John Joseph /Harper/
2 GIVN John Joseph
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Jack Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME J. J. Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1886
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S24@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 NOV 1952
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville
2 NOTE 1886–1952
2 SOUR @S24@
1 FAMS @F6@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Relation: great-grandfather
1 NOTE John Joseph, called Jack, was the eldest child of Michael and Kate, born in Lawrenceville in January 1886. He left school at fourteen for the mill, like his father. In 1917 he registered for the draft as a married steelworker with a child
2 CONC , and was not called (S24).
1 NOTE In 1912 he married Nora Flynn, a dressmaker from the Hill District. They had three children; the eldest, James, was killed in Normandy in 1944, a loss Jack never spoke about. He died in November 1952.
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0 @I20@ INDI
1 NAME Nora /Harper/
2 GIVN Nora
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Nora Flynn
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Honora Flynn
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1890
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1964
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F6@
1 NOTE Relation: great-grandmother
1 NOTE Nora Flynn was a dressmaker who sewed Dorothy Novak's wedding dress in 1949 — one of the first ties between the two families (S25). She married Jack Harper in 1912 and died in 1964.
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Harper/
2 GIVN Margaret
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Peg Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Margaret Shea
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1889
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1967
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Chicago
2 NOTE 1925–1967
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-aunt
1 NOTE Margaret, called Peg, was Michael and Kate's only daughter. In 1915 she married William Shea, a railway clerk, and their son Robert was born in 1919. The marriage did not last: the couple were divorced in 1925, rare enough in a Catholic fam
2 CONC ily that it was hardly spoken of afterwards.
1 NOTE Peg moved to Chicago, worked for thirty years at a mail-order house, and died there in 1967. Kate Harper remembers her as 'the aunt who sent the best birthday cards' (S16).
0 @I24@ INDI
1 NAME William /Shea/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Shea
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1885
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1950
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F7@
1 NOTE Relation: former husband of Margaret Harper
1 NOTE William Shea was a clerk with the Pennsylvania Railroad. After the divorce in 1925 he stayed in Pittsburgh with their son Robert. He died in 1950.
0 @I25@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Shea/
2 GIVN Robert
2 SURN Shea
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1919
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1990
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F7@
1 NOTE Relation: first cousin of Thomas Harper
1 NOTE Robert grew up with his father in Pittsburgh but spent summers with his Harper cousins. He became a high-school chemistry teacher and died in 1990.
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Harper/
2 GIVN Daniel
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Danny Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JUL 1892
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 OCT 1918
2 PLAC Meuse-Argonne, France
2 NOTE Died of wounds
2 SOUR @S12@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 OCT 1918
2 PLAC France
2 NOTE Date given by the newspaper; probably the day he was wounded
2 SOUR @S11@
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-uncle
1 NOTE Daniel, the youngest of Michael's children, was born on the Fourth of July 1892, which his father thought a very good sign. He enlisted in 1917 and went to France with an infantry division raised in western Pennsylvania.
1 NOTE He was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The Pittsburgh paper reported that he died on 8 October 1918 (S11); the War Department card says he died of wounds on 12 October (S12). We keep both dates: the newspaper was probably reportin
2 CONC g the day he was wounded. He is buried in France.
1 SOUR @S12@
0 @I45@ INDI
1 NAME (unknown child) /Harper/
2 GIVN (unknown child)
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX U
1 BIRT
2 DATE BET 1886 AND 1892
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1 FAMC @F2@
1 NOTE Relation: child of Michael and Kate Harper
1 NOTE The 1900 census says Kate Harper had borne four children, three of them living. The fourth child, probably born between 1886 and 1892, died young; no name or record has been found.
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Frank /Novak/
2 GIVN Frank
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME František Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Frantisek Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 FEB 1895
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S25@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 MAY 1960
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Windber
2 NOTE 1898–1912
2 SOUR @S8@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, South Side
2 NOTE 1912–1960
2 SOUR @S25@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Relation: great-grandfather
1 NOTE František, always Frank in America, was born in Chicago in February 1895 and grew up in Windber, where he went down the mine at thirteen as a door boy. He is the eldest of the children standing beside their parents in the 1906 photograph (
2 CONC S8).
1 NOTE After the move to Pittsburgh he became a machinist. In 1922 he married Anna Hrušková, who had come from Slovakia only two years before. Frank was a pillar of St. Matthew's Slovak parish and sang in its choir for forty years. He died in 19
2 CONC 60.
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Helen /Novak/
2 GIVN Helen
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Helena Nováková
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Aunt Helen
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 NOV 1897
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S25@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 SEP 1985
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, South Side
2 NOTE 1912–1985
2 SOUR @S23@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-aunt
1 NOTE Helen was the scholar of the family: she finished high school in Pittsburgh, trained as a teacher, and taught at a South Side grade school from 1920 to 1962. The photograph of her class of 1925 shows her standing in the middle of the back r
2 CONC ow (S23).
1 NOTE She never married, and she was the family's memory: it was Aunt Helen who kept the Windber photograph and the Christmas cards from Chicago, and who told Dorothy the stories that Dorothy later wrote down (S25). She died in 1985, a few month
2 CONC s after her great-great-nephew Daniel was born.
1 SOUR @S23@
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME Andrew /Novak/
2 GIVN Andrew
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Ondrej Novák
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE JUN 1900
2 PLAC Windber, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S20@
1 DEAT
2 DATE JAN 1902
2 PLAC Windber, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S20@
1 FAMC @F4@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-uncle
1 NOTE Andrew, Ondrej in the parish books, was born in Windber in June 1900 and died of diphtheria in January 1902. His burial is listed in the jubilee history of the Windber parish (S20).
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Rose /Novak/
2 GIVN Rose
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Rose Sabo
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Rozália Sabová
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 MAR 1905
2 PLAC Windber, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S13@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1993
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Windber
2 NOTE 1905–1912
2 SOUR @S13@
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMC @F4@
2 PEDI adopted
1 NOTE Relation: adopted daughter of Josef and Mary Novak
1 NOTE Rose was born Rozália Sabová in Windber in 1905. Her father died in a mine accident in 1907 and her mother two years later; Mary Novak took her in, and in 1910 the Orphans' Court of Somerset County confirmed the adoption (S13). She is th
2 CONC e little girl at the right of the 1906 photograph, taken when she was still the neighbours' child (S8).
1 NOTE Rose grew up as Helen's younger sister in everything but birth. She worked as a telephone operator, married late, and died in 1993.
1 SOUR @S13@
0 @I26@ INDI
1 NAME Anna /Novak/
2 GIVN Anna
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Anna Hrušková
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Ann Hruska
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1899
2 PLAC near Prešov
2 SOUR @S25@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1979
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 NOTE Relation: great-grandmother
1 NOTE Anna Hrušková came to Pittsburgh in 1920 from a village near Prešov to join an aunt. She met Frank Novak at a parish dance and married him in 1922. Dorothy remembered her mother's poppy-seed rolls and her refusal ever to speak about th
2 CONC e war years at home (S25). She died in 1979.
0 @I46@ INDI
1 NAME George /Kollar/
2 GIVN George
2 SURN Kollar
1 NAME Juraj Kollár
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1898
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1970
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 FAMS @F15@
1 NOTE Relation: husband of Rose Novak
1 NOTE George Kollar, a widowed printer from the South Side, married Rose Novak in 1938. They had no children of their own; Dorothy remembered him as the uncle who could fix any radio (S25).
0 @I21@ INDI
1 NAME James Patrick /Harper/
2 GIVN James Patrick
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Jimmy Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 FEB 1914
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JUN 1944
2 PLAC Normandy, France
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F6@
1 NOTE Relation: great-great-uncle
1 NOTE Jimmy, the eldest son of Jack and Nora, was drafted in 1942 and trained at Camp Shelby; the oval studio portrait from 1943 is the last photograph of him (S18). He landed in Normandy in June 1944 and was killed nine days later. His younger b
2 CONC rother Thomas named his first son Michael James in his memory.
1 SOUR @S18@
0 @I22@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Harper/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Tom Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 SEP 1921
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S17@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 SEP 1920
2 PLAC Pittsburgh
2 NOTE Year remembered by Kate Harper; the marriage record has 1921
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 DEC 1998
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Brookline
2 NOTE 1950–1998
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F6@
1 NOTE Relation: grandfather
1 NOTE Thomas, called Tom, was born in Lawrenceville in September 1921. He served as a navy radio operator in the Pacific and came home in 1946 to a job with the electric company. At a St. Matthew's parish dance on the South Side — he had gone w
2 CONC ith a Slovak friend from work — he met Dorothy Novak.
1 NOTE They married at St. Matthew's in June 1949, and the Irish and Slovak sides of the family stood together on the church steps for the first time (S17). Tom and Dottie had three children and lived for forty years in a frame house in Brookline
2 CONC . Tom died in December 1998.
1 SOUR @S17@
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1 NAME Eileen /Harper/
2 GIVN Eileen
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1924
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2011
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMC @F6@
1 NOTE Relation: great-aunt
1 NOTE Eileen, the youngest of Jack and Nora's children, was a nurse at Mercy Hospital for forty years. She never married and was godmother to her nephew Michael.
0 @I27@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy /Harper/
2 GIVN Dorothy
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Dorothy Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 NAME Dottie Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 APR 1926
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S17@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 JAN 2016
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, South Side
2 NOTE 1926–1949
2 SOUR @S25@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Brookline
2 NOTE 1950–2016
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F9@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Relation: grandmother
1 NOTE Dorothy Novak was born on the South Side in April 1926, the daughter of Frank and Anna. She worked as a bookkeeper until her marriage to Tom Harper in 1949 (S17), and later, when the children were grown, at the parish office.
1 NOTE In the year Tom died she filled a school notebook with everything she remembered from Aunt Helen and her parents: Kapušany, the boat from Hamburg, the boarding house in Windber, Rose's adoption. That notebook is the backbone of the Novak h
2 CONC alf of this archive (S25). Dorothy died in January 2016.
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1 NAME Joseph /Novak/
2 GIVN Joseph
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Joe Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1928
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S25@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2001
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F10@
1 FAMC @F8@
1 NOTE Relation: great-uncle
1 NOTE Joe, Dorothy's younger brother, ran a hardware store in Mount Washington for thirty years. He married Ruth Miller in 1953.
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1 NAME Ruth /Novak/
2 GIVN Ruth
2 SURN Novak
1 NAME Ruth Miller
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1930
2 PLAC Erie, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2012
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F10@
1 NOTE Relation: wife of Joseph Novak
1 NOTE Ruth Miller, a schoolteacher from Erie, married Joe Novak in 1953.
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Michael James /Harper/
2 GIVN Michael James
2 SURN Harper
1 NAME Mike Harper
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUN 1951
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 MAR 2019
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 SOUR @S16@
1 FAMS @F11@
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Relation: father
1 NOTE Michael James Harper, named for his great-grandfather and for his uncle Jimmy, was born in June 1951. He studied engineering, worked for thirty years on the city's bridges, and in 1982 married Susan Brennan.
1 NOTE It was Michael who first asked his mother to write down what she remembered, and who began collecting the family's photographs into albums; this archive grew out of his boxes. He died in March 2019.
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Susan /Harper/
2 GIVN Susan
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F11@
1 NOTE Relation: mother
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Harper/
2 GIVN Catherine
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Relation: aunt
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Peter /Harper/
2 GIVN Peter
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F9@
1 NOTE Relation: uncle
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME Linda /Novak/
2 GIVN Linda
2 SURN Novak
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F10@
1 NOTE Relation: first cousin of Michael Harper
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel /Harper/
2 GIVN Daniel
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F12@
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE Relation: keeper of this archive
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1 NAME Claire /Harper/
2 GIVN Claire
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F11@
1 NOTE Relation: sister
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Elena /Harper/
2 GIVN Elena
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F12@
1 NOTE Relation: wife
0 @I38@ INDI
1 NAME Nora /Harper/
2 GIVN Nora
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F12@
1 NOTE Relation: daughter
0 @I39@ INDI
1 NAME Samuel /Harper/
2 GIVN Samuel
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F12@
1 NOTE Relation: son
0 @I41@ INDI
1 NAME Honora /Harper/
2 GIVN Honora
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1840
2 PLAC Ireland
2 SOUR @S14@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Pittsburgh, Sixth Ward
2 NOTE 1880
2 SOUR @S14@
1 FAMC @F14@
1 NOTE Relation: possible relative (1880 census)
1 NOTE Possible relative, link not proven. Found in the 1880 census next door to Michael (S14). Same surname and county of origin are not proof of kinship; we are looking for her death record, which might name her parents.
1 NOTE In the June 1880 census an Honora Harper, 40, born in Ireland, a widow and laundress, lives two doors from the boarding house where Michael Harper had just arrived (S14). She may be a sister of Patrick Harper — which would explain why Mic
2 CONC hael went straight to Pittsburgh — but nothing yet connects them.
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1 NAME Michal /Novák/
2 GIVN Michal
2 SURN Novák
1 NAME Michael Novak
2 TYPE aka
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1869
2 PLAC Kapušany
2 SOUR @S9@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Hamburg, emigrant halls
2 NOTE May 1892
2 SOUR @S9@
1 FAMC @F3@
1 NOTE Relation: possible relative (Hamburg list)
1 NOTE Possible relative, link not proven. Same village and same ship as Josef in the Hamburg list (S9), but he is not in Ján and Anna's family in any record we have. Possibly a brother, possibly a cousin, possibly unrelated.
1 NOTE Michal Novák, 23, labourer from Kapušany, is entered in the Hamburg emigrant list on the same page as Josef in May 1892 (S9). He could be a younger brother or a cousin; Novák is a very common name, and he does not appear on the Ellis Isl
2 CONC and manifest with Josef.
0 @I43@ INDI
1 NAME Martin /Harper/
2 GIVN Martin
2 SURN Harper
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1863
2 PLAC Louisburgh, Co. Mayo
2 SOUR @S15@
1 RESI
2 PLAC Louisburgh, farm next to Bridget Harper
2 NOTE 1901
2 SOUR @S15@
1 FAMC @F1@
1 NOTE Relation: possible relative (1901 census)
1 NOTE Possible relative, link not proven. Next-door household in 1901 (S15); age fits a son born around 1863. Not proven.
1 NOTE In the 1901 census of Ireland a Martin Harper, 38, farmer, unmarried, heads the household next to Bridget's in the same townland (S15). He is probably a son of Patrick and Bridget who took over the farm, but the census does not say so and n
2 CONC o baptism has been found.
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1 HUSB @I1@
1 WIFE @I2@
1 CHIL @I3@
1 CHIL @I4@
1 CHIL @I5@
1 CHIL @I43@
1 MARR
2 DATE 12 FEB 1856
2 PLAC Louisburgh chapel
2 SOUR @S2@
1 NOTE Thomas is known only from family memory (S16); Martin only from the 1901 census, where he lives next door to Bridget (S15). Neither has a baptism yet.
1 SOUR @S1@
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1 WIFE @I6@
1 CHIL @I7@
1 CHIL @I45@
1 CHIL @I8@
1 CHIL @I9@
1 MARR
2 DATE 10 JUN 1884
2 PLAC St. Patrick's church, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S3@
1 NOTE Married at St. Patrick's in the Strip District; Owen Doyle was a witness.
1 SOUR @S3@
1 SOUR @S19@
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1 HUSB @I10@
1 WIFE @I11@
1 CHIL @I12@
1 CHIL @I13@
1 CHIL @I42@
1 MARR Y
1 NOTE Michal Novák from Kapušany travelled with Josef in 1892 (S9); he may be a brother or a cousin.
1 SOUR @S6@
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1 WIFE @I14@
1 CHIL @I15@
1 CHIL @I16@
1 CHIL @I17@
1 CHIL @I18@
1 MARR
2 DATE 20 OCT 1894
2 PLAC Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
2 SOUR @S7@
1 NOTE Rose Sabo was taken in in 1909 and adopted in 1910 (S13).
1 SOUR @S7@
1 SOUR @S8@
1 SOUR @S13@
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1 WIFE @I19@
1 CHIL @I44@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1899
2 PLAC Chicago, Illinois
2 SOUR @S16@
1 SOUR @S16@
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1 WIFE @I20@
1 CHIL @I21@
1 CHIL @I22@
1 CHIL @I23@
1 MARR
2 DATE 14 SEP 1912
2 PLAC St. Mary's church, Lawrenceville
2 SOUR @S16@
1 SOUR @S24@
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1 HUSB @I24@
1 WIFE @I8@
1 CHIL @I25@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1915
2 PLAC Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S16@
1 DIV Y
1 NOTE Divorced in 1925.
1 SOUR @S16@
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1 HUSB @I15@
1 WIFE @I26@
1 CHIL @I27@
1 CHIL @I28@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1922
2 PLAC St. Matthew's church, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S25@
1 SOUR @S25@
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1 HUSB @I22@
1 WIFE @I27@
1 CHIL @I30@
1 CHIL @I31@
1 CHIL @I32@
1 MARR
2 DATE 18 JUN 1949
2 PLAC St. Matthew's church, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S17@
1 NOTE The marriage that joined the Harpers and the Novaks.
1 SOUR @S17@
1 SOUR @S25@
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1 WIFE @I29@
1 CHIL @I33@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1953
2 PLAC Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S16@
0 @F11@ FAM
1 HUSB @I30@
1 WIFE @I34@
1 CHIL @I35@
1 CHIL @I36@
1 MARR Y
0 @F12@ FAM
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1 WIFE @I37@
1 CHIL @I38@
1 CHIL @I39@
1 MARR Y
0 @F15@ FAM
1 HUSB @I46@
1 WIFE @I18@
1 MARR
2 DATE 1938
2 PLAC St. Matthew's church, Pittsburgh
2 SOUR @S25@
1 SOUR @S25@
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1 CHIL @I6@
1 CHIL @I40@
1 NOTE Kate and Owen Doyle, born in New York to parents we have not identified.
1 SOUR @S3@
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1 CHIL @I1@
1 CHIL @I41@
1 NOTE Honora Harper lived next door to Michael in 1880 (S14); she may be Patrick's sister.
1 SOUR @S14@
0 @S1@ SOUR
1 TITL Baptism register of Louisburgh parish, 1858
1 PUBL Parish of Kilgeever (Louisburgh), baptisms 1850–1870, p. 41, entry 212 — fictional citation
1 TEXT 3 October 1858: Michael, son of Patrick Harper and Bridget Walsh, born 29 September; sponsors Thomas Walsh and Honor Gibbons. Proves Michael's parents and Bridget's maiden name.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/louisburgh-baptisms-1858.jpg
0 @S2@ SOUR
1 TITL Marriage register of Louisburgh parish, 1856
1 PUBL Parish of Kilgeever, marriages 1849–1880, entry 9 — fictional citation
1 TEXT 12 February 1856: Patrick Harper, 22, and Bridget Walsh, both of this parish. The only record of Patrick's age before 1880.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/louisburgh-marriages-1856
0 @S3@ SOUR
1 TITL Photo: Michael and Kate Harper on their wedding day, 1884
1 PUBL Harper family album, page 1
1 TEXT Cabinet card from a Pittsburgh studio: Kate seated, Michael standing. Inscription on the back: «Michael & Kate, married 10 June 1884, St. Patrick's, Pittsburgh». Owen Doyle, Kate's brother, was a witness at the wedding.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/harper-wedding-1884.jpg
0 @S4@ SOUR
1 TITL Passenger list, Queenstown to New York, April 1880
1 PUBL SS Atlantic Star (fictional ship), arrived Castle Garden 24 April 1880, line 118
1 TEXT Michael Harper, 21, labourer, Ireland, destination Pittsburgh.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/passenger-lists/1880-04-queenstown
0 @S5@ SOUR
1 TITL Ellis Island manifest, May 1892
1 PUBL SS Elbe Queen (fictional ship) from Hamburg, arrived 21 May 1892, sheet 7, line 22
1 TEXT Jozef Novák, 25, laborer, Hungary, last residence Kapušany, going to a cousin in Chicago. The age gives a birth year of about 1867.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/ellis-island/1892-05-elbe-queen
0 @S6@ SOUR
1 TITL Baptism register of Kapušany parish, 1866
1 PUBL Roman Catholic parish of Kapušany, baptisms 1860–1875, fol. 22 — fictional citation
1 TEXT 19 March 1866: Josephus, son of Joannes Novák and Anna Hudák, house no. 31. Latin register; the entry proves Josef's parents and his date of birth.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/kapusany-baptisms-1866.jpg
0 @S7@ SOUR
1 TITL Marriage certificate of Josef Novak and Mary Kovac, Chicago, 1894
1 PUBL Cook County marriage certificate no. 21877 (fictional number), certified copy
1 TEXT 20 October 1894: Joseph Novak, 28, born Kapušany, and Mary Kovac, 22, born Kapušany. Witnesses Stephen Novak and Anna Kovac.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/chicago-marriage-1894.jpg
0 @S8@ SOUR
1 TITL Photo: the Novak family in Windber, 1906
1 PUBL Kept by Helen Novak, now in Dorothy Harper's album
1 TEXT Outdoor photograph in front of the company houses: Josef, Mary, Frank (11), Helen (9) and Rose Sabo (1). Inscription on the back: «Windber 1906 — Josef, Mary, Frank, Helen & little Rosie (sent to Kapušany)». The photograph came back t
2 CONC o America with a later emigrant.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/novak-family-windber-1906.jpg
0 @S9@ SOUR
1 TITL Hamburg emigrant list, May 1892
1 PUBL Hamburg passenger lists, vol. 1892/5, p. 314 — fictional citation
1 TEXT Josef Novák, 25, and Michal Novák, 23, both labourers from Kapušany, Hungary, bound for New York.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/hamburg-emigrants/1892-05-06
0 @S10@ SOUR
1 TITL Obituary of Michael Harper, 1924
1 PUBL The Pittsburgh Evening Leader (fictional newspaper), 4 March 1924, p. 18
1 TEXT HARPER — On Sunday, March 2, 1924, Michael Harper, beloved husband of Catherine Doyle Harper, in his 66th year, a native of the County Mayo, Ireland. Funeral from the family residence on Butler Street.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/pittsburgh-obituary-1924.jpg
0 @S11@ SOUR
1 TITL “Local Boy Falls in France”, 1918
1 PUBL The Pittsburgh Evening Leader (fictional newspaper), 2 November 1918, p. 3
1 TEXT Private Daniel Harper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Harper of Butler Street, killed in action on October 8. Gives a date four days earlier than the War Department card (S12).
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/daniel-harper-1918.jpg
0 @S12@ SOUR
1 TITL War Department burial card of Daniel Harper
1 PUBL Burial case file card (fictional reference no. 4471-H)
1 TEXT Pvt. Daniel Harper, infantry, died of wounds 12 October 1918; buried in an American military cemetery in France.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/war-department/harper-daniel-1918
0 @S13@ SOUR
1 TITL Petition and decree of adoption of Rose Sabo, 1910
1 PUBL Orphans' Court of Somerset County, adoption docket 1910, no. 12 — fictional citation; 2 pages
1 TEXT Page 1: petition of Joseph and Mary Novak of Windber to adopt Rose Sabo, born 8 March 1905, both of whose parents are deceased. Page 2: decree of 14 June 1910 granting the adoption; the child to bear the name Rose Novak.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/rose-sabo-adoption-1910.pdf
0 @S14@ SOUR
1 TITL United States census of 1880, Pittsburgh, Sixth Ward
1 PUBL Enumeration district 112 (fictional), sheet 14
1 TEXT Michael Harper, 21, boarder, works in rolling mill, born Ireland. Two dwellings away: Honora Harper, 40, widow, laundress, born Ireland.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/census/1880/pittsburgh-ward-6
0 @S15@ SOUR
1 TITL Census of Ireland, 1901, Louisburgh
1 PUBL Co. Mayo, District Electoral Division of Louisburgh, house 7 and 8 (fictional)
1 TEXT House 7: Bridget Harper, 65, widow, cannot read; Mary Harper, 39, daughter, single. House 8: Martin Harper, 38, farmer, single.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/census/1901/mayo/louisburgh
0 @S16@ SOUR
1 TITL Recollections of Kate Harper, recorded 2025
1 PUBL Audio recording and notes, family archive
1 TEXT Kate Harper (b. 1954) on the Harper side: Patrick dying ‘the winter Parnell died’, the brother Thomas who went to Liverpool, Aunt Peg's divorce, Uncle Jimmy, and dates for her parents' generation.
0 @S17@ SOUR
1 TITL Photo: Tom and Dorothy Harper's wedding, 1949
1 PUBL Dorothy Harper's album
1 TEXT Studio portrait taken after the wedding at St. Matthew's. Inscription on the back: «Tom & Dottie, St. Matthew's, 18 June 1949, love to Aunt Helen». The marriage record (copy in the same album) gives Tom's birth date as 5 September 1921.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/harper-novak-wedding-1949.jpg
0 @S18@ SOUR
1 TITL Photo: James Patrick Harper in uniform, 1943
1 PUBL Harper family album
1 TEXT Oval studio portrait, inscribed on the mount «Jimmy, Camp Shelby 1943».
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/james-harper-1943.jpg
0 @S19@ SOUR
1 TITL Gravestone of Michael and Catherine Harper, Calvary Cemetery
1 PUBL Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, section 12 (photographed 2025)
1 TEXT HARPER — Michael 1858–1924 — his wife Catherine 1862–1931 — Rest in peace.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/harper-gravestone-calvary.jpg
0 @S20@ SOUR
1 TITL Golden Jubilee of St. Mary's Slovak parish, Windber, 1897–1947
1 PUBL Parish booklet (fictional), 1947, pp. 12–15: list of early baptisms and burials
1 TEXT Lists the burial of ‘Ondrej Novák, child of Jozef and Mária, January 1902’ and names Josef Novak among the founding members of the parish society.
0 @S22@ SOUR
1 TITL Death certificate of Joseph Novak, 1931
1 PUBL Pennsylvania death certificate, file no. 77314 (fictional number)
1 TEXT Joseph Novak, died 14 August 1931, Pittsburgh, aged 65, born Kapušany, Czechoslovakia; watchman; cause: chronic lung disease. Informant Frank Novak.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/novak-death-certificate-1931.jpg
0 @S23@ SOUR
1 TITL Photo: Helen Novak with her class, 1925
1 PUBL Kept by Helen Novak
1 TEXT School photograph, caption on the mount «Miss Novak's class, 1925». Helen stands in the middle.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/helen-novak-class-1925.jpg
0 @S24@ SOUR
1 TITL WWI draft registration card of John Joseph Harper, 1917
1 PUBL Allegheny County, local board 9 (fictional), card 1204
1 TEXT John Joseph Harper, born 17 January 1886, Pittsburgh; roller's helper; married, one child.
1 NOTE Online: https://example.org/records/draft-cards/1917/harper-john-joseph
0 @S25@ SOUR
1 TITL Dorothy Harper's notebook “What I remember”, 1998
1 PUBL School notebook, 48 pages, family archive
1 TEXT Dorothy's recollections of the Novak side as told by her parents and Aunt Helen: Kapušany, the voyage from Hamburg, Windber, Rose's adoption, family dates. Shown: the first page.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/dorothy-memoir-notebook.jpg
0 @S26@ SOUR
1 TITL Certificate of naturalization of Joseph Novak, 1904
1 PUBL Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, naturalization vol. 3, p. 88 — fictional citation
1 TEXT Joseph Novak of Windber, miner, native of Hungary, admitted a citizen of the United States, 2 May 1904. Arrival given as New York, May 1892.
1 NOTE Copy in the archive: sources/novak-naturalization-1904.jpg
0 @SUBM1@ SUBM
1 NAME The Harper & Novak family archive
0 TRLR