Person in this family
Agnes Kelly
Born about 1857; death not recorded
Agnes Noga was born about 1856 in Germany and headed a family in Brooklyn Ward 8 — six children are recorded across the 1910 and 1920 censuses: Julius, Frank, Charles, John, Anna and Joseph. The two eldest were born in **Michigan**, so the family came east before 1881. **Julius is named on the 1915 state census as the father of Ruth Noga**, who married Carmine Cacace — which makes Agnes Ruth's grandparent and brings this whole household into the family, where it had been recorded only as context.
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Agnes Noga was born about 1856 in Germany and headed a family in Brooklyn Ward 8 — six children are recorded across the 1910 and 1920 censuses: Julius, Frank, Charles, John, Anna and Joseph. The two eldest were born in **Michigan**, so the family came east before 1881. **Julius is named on the 1915 state census as the father of Ruth Noga**, who married Carmine Cacace — which makes Agnes Ruth's grandparent and brings this whole household into the family, where it had been recorded only as context.
Recorded as: Agnes Noga, Noga
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's great-great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s great-great-great-grandparent
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-great-great-great-grandparent
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Kevin Leahey’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
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- Germany
- United States
- Manhattan, New York City, New York
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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What the records say
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Record exhibit
Julius E. Noga in the Charles Noga household, 1910 and 1920 censuses, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Ward 8: Charles Noga, born about 1852-55 in Germany, and Agnes Noga, born about 1856 in Germany, with children Julius E (b. 1877, Michigan), Frank (b. 1879, Michigan), Charles (b. 1881), John (b. 1886), Anna (b. 1889) and Joseph (b. 1890).
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Charles Noga household, 1920 United States census, Brooklyn Assembly District 3
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Brooklyn Assembly District 3, ED 171, sheet 8A, household 1. Charles Noga, head, 68, born Germany, **arrived 1875**; Agnes Noga, wife, 63, born Germany. Children at home: **Julius, son, 43, born Michigan, marital status single**; Frank; John; Anna.
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Marriage of Julius Edward Noga and Lottie Florence Mayer, Manhattan, 13 October 1914
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What we still don't know
- **Her maiden name is Kelly**, from her son Julius's 1914 marriage record — which makes her almost certainly **Irish**, where this archive had her simply as the German-born Charles Noga's wife. A German or Polish immigrant of 1875 marrying an Irishwoman in Michigan is an ordinary American story and it changes what this quarter of the family is. Her birth and her own parents are unknown.
- **Where the Nogas actually came from is not settled, and the census answer may mislead.** Charles Noga is recorded as born in **Germany** about 1852 and as arriving in **1875**, with his two eldest sons born in **Michigan** in 1877 and 1879. But **Noga is a Polish surname**, not a German one — it is the Polish word for *leg* — and between 1871 and 1918 a great part of Poland was inside the German Empire. A Pole from Posen, Silesia or West Prussia would be entered as German by any American enumerator, and would have said German himself. So 'Germany' here is a statement about a passport, not about a people. **The distinction matters**: it decides whether this line runs back to a German parish register or a Polish one, and they are different archives in different languages. A passenger list for 1875, or a naturalisation, would name the town and end it.
- Their own births, marriage and deaths. A death record for either would give a maiden name for Agnes and the couple's origins — the censuses say only Germany, which for this period often means Prussian Poland.
- The other five children — Frank, Charles, John, Anna and Joseph — are Ruth's aunts and uncles and are not yet entered. **One of them is very probably the aunt or uncle Ruth was living with as a *niece* in 1920.**
References
- [1] Julius E. Noga in the Charles Noga household, 1910 and 1920 censuses, BrooklynBack to citation 1
- [2] Charles Noga household, 1920 United States census, Brooklyn Assembly District 3Back to citation 2
- [3] Marriage of Julius Edward Noga and Lottie Florence Mayer, Manhattan, 13 October 1914Back to citation 3