I had researcher
Vincas B do some digging through the http://www.epaveldas.lt/
church records for me. He found the following goodie!
Viekšniai church, same parish in 18 of January, 1883. Priest Antanas Petrošius
married Reserve Private Juozapas Žvingis, single, 31 years old from Pluogai? village, son of peasants Jonas Žvingis and Marijona Davidauskaitė, legal spouses and peasant Morta Mileškaitė, single, 22 years old from Mažeikiai village, Viekšniai parish, daughter of Juozapas
Mileška and Monika Vaitiekute,
legal spouses. Witnesses were Juozapas Degutis, Pranas Milevičius, Stanislovas
Januškis and others.
Pluogai might also
be Krakei
Juozapas Zvingis is
the father of Juozas Zvingis who migrated to the United States in 1914. Aka Juozapas and Marijona are my
great-great-great-grandparents.
I remember my
grandfather Edward Laukaitis, talking with my grandmother Bertha Laukaitis nee
Zvingis about her Jewish grandmother.
The name Davidauskaite is a Jewish name in Lithuania, aka it’s a Litvak
name. The American equivalent is
Davidson. The Polish equivalent is
Dawidowicz or Davidowicz .
Also interesting is
Juozapas is listed as a Reserve Private in the Russian army. Lithuania was a vassal state (occupied
territory) of Russian from 1795 to 1915.
Conscription of males was mandatory.
In many of the old pictures I have my relatives are wearing entire or
pieces of Russian uniforms.
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