Consavage, Kunczewitz, Kuncewicz family. Please help me with my ancestry...

27 Aug 2010 / #1

Okay so my great-grandpa, Michael Consavage (whose surname was changed at Ellis Island) immigrated here from a town called "Mosty" in Poland. Has anyone ever heard of it?? I found this out from the Ellis Island website, and I also found his original surname : Kunczewitz.

He married a woman named Sophie, but i can't find her original surname :(
Also, on the ellis island website, it said he was Russian... could it mean that maybe his parents were Russian, and then moved to Poland and had him? I am not sure.

If anyone has ever heard of this surname, please reply!

Oh, and Michael and Sophie moved to Yonkers, NY and had (I think...) 5 or 6 boys, and 1 girl. One of them happened to be my grandfather. Thank you!!!

Wroclaw 44 | 5359

27 Aug 2010 / #2

it said he was Russian.

No, it simply means a time when Russia had control.

check wikipedia for Polish history and the times of Polish Partition.

OP teenagexdream 1 | 3

27 Aug 2010 / #3

Oooh, so he was still Polish, even though Russia was in control?

Wroclaw 44 | 5359

27 Aug 2010 / #4

in the past the Polish people held on to their identity whoever was in charge (as they do these days)

keep in mind that the borders have changed a few times and what was Poland may not be Poland now.

Please, read up on it as it will give insight to your family.

TheOther 6 | 3617

27 Aug 2010 / #5

so he was still Polish, even though Russia was in control?

He was an ethnic Pole who was a Russian citizen.

Bzibzioh

28 Aug 2010 / #6

immigrated here from a town called "Mosty" in Poland. Has anyone ever heard of it??

According to wiki there are 6 villages in Poland with the name of Mosty + one town in Belarus.
Only the first one and eventually fifth one would be in former Russian part of Poland

* Mosty - wieś w woj. lubelskim, w pow. parczewskim, w gminie Podedwórze
* Mosty - wieś w woj. łódzkim, w pow. radomszczańskim, w gminie Żytno
* Mosty - przysiółek w woj. pomorskim, w pow. lęborskim, w gminie Nowa Wieś Lęborska
* Mosty - wieś w woj. pomorskim, w pow. puckim, w gminie Kosakowo
* Mosty - wieś w woj. świętokrzyskim, w pow. kieleckim, w gminie Chęciny
* Mosty - wieś w woj. zachodniopomorskim, w pow. goleniowskim, w gminie Goleniów

oraz:

* Mosty-Osiedle - osada w woj. zachodniopomorskim, w pow. goleniowskim, w gminie Goleniów

1 miasto na Białorusi:

* Mosty - miasto w obwodzie grodzieńskim

Zobacz też: Mosty Małe, Nowe Mosty, Mosty u Jablunkova

Kunczewitz.

I would try Kuncewicz.