Cane someone look up an immigration please

[JessBow]

Surname KAPUZA forename Morris or something alike
( looks like it could be Moische )
child possibly ABRAHAM

maybe from Poland/somewhere that way

Thanks

( Cane? I mean CAN! Doh!)

[MargaretMarch]

This is from ancestry Hamburg Passenger lists
Rachel Kapuza 18 Okt 1906 (18 Oct 1906) abt 1880 Southampton; Cherbourg; New York Blücher
Abram Kapuza 18 Okt 1906 (18 Oct 1906) abt 1903 Southampton; Cherbourg; New York Blücher
Josele Kapuza 18 Okt 1906 (18 Oct 1906) abt 1905 Southampton; Cherbourg; New York Blücher

[JessBow]

Thanks Margaret,

any incomings from Poland or thereabouts?

[Mary from Italy]

Do you know roughly when they would have arrived? There aren't an awful lot of incoming records on Ancestry, at least not before 1878.

Moishe/Moshe is the Hebrew form of Moses, I think.

[MargaretMarch]

No that's all that's coming up. I suppose they could have come from Poland and just boarded the ship at Hamburg
There's this as well from the Brest Passport Collection
Abram Kapuza
Birth Date: 1928
Passport Issue Date: 10 Feb 1942
Parents Names: Symcha and Fejga
Signature Language: 2nd official's signature
File Number: 467
Record Number: 12097

[JessBow]

That looks useful, thank you

[kiterunner]

There is a catalogue entry on TNA for

HO Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Division within HO Aliens and Immigration, Denization and Naturalisation, Community Relations, Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Departments
HO 405 Home Office: Aliens Department and successors: Aliens Personal Files, Applications for Naturalisation (ALP and IMP file series)

KAPUZA, A Date of birth: 19/07/1894
Covering dates
1933 Jan 01 - 1949 Dec 31
Closure status
Closed Or Retained Document, Open Description
Further information about access conditions is available
Access conditions
Closed For 100 years
Record opening date
01 Jan 2050

[MargaretMarch]

There's more on the passport lists
Fejga Kapuza
Birth Date: 1891
Passport Issue Date: 16 Nov 1941
Parents Names: Sania and Sara-Jude
Signature Language: Latin
File Number: 23
Record Number: 577

And a different record for the crossing
Ruchel Kapuza
Arrival Date: 29 Oct 1906
Birth Year: abt 1880
Birth Location Other: srunatory
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race*/Nationality: Hebrew
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Bluecher

[MargaretMarch]

More passport results
name removed in case still living Kapuza
Birth Date: 1924
Passport Issue Date: 18 Nov 1941
Parents Names: Symcha and Fejga
Signature Language: Latin
File Number: 126
Record Number: 3228

name removed in case still livingKapuza
Birth Date: 1924
Passport Issue Date: 16 Nov 1941
Parents Names: Sumena and Fejga
Signature Language: Latin
File Number: 12
Record Number: 311

[Mary from Italy]

In view of the dates, that TNA entry probably relates to this person:

LIST of ALIENS to whom Certificates of Naturalisation have been granted by the Secretary of State, and whose Oaths of Allegiance have been registered in the Home Office during the month of February, 1949.
The date shown in each case is the date on which the Oath of Allegiance was taken.

Kapuza, Abraham; Of uncertain nationality;
Gown Manufacturer ; 10, Beaumont Court, Upper Clapton, London, E.5.

London Gazette, 22 March 1949.

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38568/pages/1454
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38568/pages/1460

This is the only Kapuza I can find in the Gazette.

[Mary from Italy]

Most of the people listed in the Brest (Belarus) passport database didn't survive the Holocaust, as I understand it.

[MargaretMarch]

Oh dear! I didn't realise that.
Margaret

[Mary from Italy]

Afraid so. This page tells you more about the database:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1456&enc=1

[MargaretMarch]

Thank you for the link - it makes very sorry reading.
Margaret

[JessBow]

Thanks , much appreciated