lead-jane-n-ponceby-1942
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lead-jane-n-ponceby-1942
The 1940 Cleveland City Directory lists Donald D. or Donald E. Ponceby with Jane N. at 1890 E. 97th, apartment 2. The 1942 Cleveland City Directory lists Donald E. Ponceby with "Jane N" in parentheses at 9715 Logan Ct, and a following entry lists Jane as a nurse at University Hospital residing at the same address. An accepted 1941 NARA naturalization file identifies her as Jane Nevin Ponceby, born 4 August 1900 in Clinton, Ontario, Canada; it says she married Donald Ponceby at Calgary, Alberta, on 15 June 1936 and entered the United States at Buffalo, New York, as Janie MacGregor on 14 August 1923 by Grand Trunk Railway. Jane N. is represented by canonical person-jane-nevin-ponceby-1900 as Donald Edwin Ponceby's documented 1936 spouse between Catherine Mackie Horne's 1927 death and the 1957 passenger manifest that lists Helen M. Ponceby.
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- Can the Calgary, Alberta, 15 June 1936 marriage record independently verify Jane Nevin/MacGregor and Donald Ponceby's marriage details and prior-marital status?
- Is Jane Nevin Ponceby distinct from Dorothy D./Dorothy Pastis and Helen L./M. McDonald/Ponceby, or does one of those later spouse clues represent a later name or remarriage path for Jane?
- Can Cleveland, Ohio, Michigan, Canadian, or federal records identify Jane's death, divorce, remarriage, or later residence path?
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- Lead created 22 April 2026 from the 1942 Cleveland City Directory page and expanded after locating the 1940 Cleveland City Directory page.
- Ohio History Connection death-index searches for Jane Ponceby, 1942-1975, did not return a Jane Ponceby result on 22 April 2026.
- Cleveland Public Library CONTENTdm/API searches on 23 April 2026 for Ponceby, Donald Ponceby, Jane Ponceby, Helen Ponceby, and Dorothy Ponceby returned only the already-ingested 1940 and 1942 Cleveland directory hits; no later Cleveland directory hit was found in that public API search.
- A 1938-1939 Port Huron street-directory source now places Donald E. Ponceby at 1702 Martin Av, Port Huron, Michigan, before the Cleveland Jane N. trail, but that street listing does not name a spouse.
- On 25 April 2026, a Cuyahoga Probate marriage-docket search for Ponceby variants found Donald E. Ponceby groom entries with Dorothy Pastis and Helen L. McDonald, but no Jane N. Ponceby marriage entry under Ponceby/Poncely/Pownceby/Pounceby/Ponseby/Ponciby.
- On 26 April 2026, a NARA Catalog search located a digitized 1941 federal naturalization packet for Jane Nevin Ponceby. It directly supplies her MacGregor arrival name, 1923 Buffalo entry, 1936 Calgary marriage to Donald Ponceby, and 1941 Cleveland naturalization details; the user accepted that source the same day.
- Source review on 26 April 2026 confirmed that the petition records Donald's current residence as Ann Arbor, Michigan, while Jane's petition residence is 1890 East 97th Street, Cleveland; preserve this as a migration/residence clue until another relationship-bearing record explains the 1940-1942 Cleveland/Ann Arbor/Logan Court sequence.
- Promoted to canonical person-jane-nevin-ponceby-1900 on 26 April 2026 after user acceptance of source-nara-naturalization-file-for-jane-nevin-ponceby-1941.
- Retained in 07_leads as a promoted lead trail record; source and event links now point to the canonical person where the Jane identity is supported.
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