Am searching for family and information on STEPHANUS BUGAN-ONDRAFSEK born 1856 married ANNA ZAJACZ in former Moravia, have 4 children, Madeleine, Rose, Vincent, and Martin who is my grandfather. ZORTON ANDRSIK BUGAN, his Slovak spelled surname, was born 9 AUG 1890. Martin (Zorton) married Sophie Susan SMEHIL in Webster, MA. They have 7 children, Stephen, Mary, Rosalie, Eva, Josephine, Alex, and John, my father.
I know that Sophia Smehil had a brother Frank and had lived in an orphange and also worked for another family as a cleaning lady, before immigrating to the U.S. about 1907., as their parents died young. Sophia's parents are Joseph and Mary HOLES^.
I am told SLADEK family are cousins to the BUGAN family. I had an Aunt Cecilia who lived in Detroit years ago.
I also would like to know where Frank Smehil is buried and where the orphanage may have been.
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