Muranyi history
I'm looking for my great grandfather's parents. His name was Gustave Muranyi (there have been several spellings) and he was born in 1871 (some sources say 1872). Gustave said he was born in Hungary. He was married to Edith Dorothy Stanard and had a child, Lucile, who married and divorced with no children. After Dorothy died he married Helena Vella and had another child, Elsie (Elsa) Muranyi. I translated an article where he said his parents were Sandor Muranyi and Franca Villa, she from Italy. I cannot find any information to support this. Any help would be appreciated. I've reached one dead end after another. Thank you!! Jeannie
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There's a naturalization record that points to Trencsén as Gustave's place of origin, but I couldn't find him in the town (neither in the RC nor the Lutheran register), and searching the entire county is, ah, beyond my energies. (He's not turning up in the indexed portions, but not everything's indexed.)
Interestingly, there was an actor who changed his name in 1864 from Koczmann to Murányi Gusztáv. That was in Arad, so I kinda doubt it has any relevance, but it may affect broad internet searches.
I vaguely recall looking at this before — the Italy bit rings a bell — but I'm not turning up anything new. Sorry.
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@JeannieThellman @Julia Szent-Györgyi
I had looked at an August Muranyi (born 1872) who is in the Hamburg passenger lists and immigrated in 1890 from "Dilhepule, Ungarn", which I thought might be Dlhé Pole (Hungarian name is Trencsénhosszúmező). But I could only find Catholic church records there, all searchable and no Muranyis. I wonder whether there might be Lutheran registers from Dlhé Pole or a neighboring place?
Kind regards
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Here the link to the Hamburg passenger list for August Muranyi. I thought it interesting that he put in the occupation "student" when he immigrated.
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Dvorzsák says Dlhepole had 2622 Roman Catholic and 21 Jewish residents, no Protestants of any stripe, so no, there aren't gonna be any other relevant registers. I quickly paged through the 1869-1873 RC baptisms and saw zero "gus" names, and the relevant Jewish register is not online, so this seems to be yet another dead end, unfortunately. (No, I don't consider it particularly likely that he was Jewish, but you know, completionism and all.)
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