Hello everyone, I am helping an old friend with a particular section of her family history. She is Australian but one set of her grandparents were Lithuanian and they both migrated to Maine for a period in the early 20th century and married there in 1913. Their names were Kasimir Malinauskas and Emilia Bardauskas.
Kasimir came to America aboard the SS Amerika in 1906. The Ellis Island manifest gives as his American contact a brother-in-law Antanis Cyraukus of Lewisport, Maine:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JF8W-NY3This Antanis (I assume it's him) appears in the 1910 US census in the Androscoggin County Jail:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MR3P-8YXMy query is, can anyone find Antanis in any other records, or any record of why he was in jail, or any record of his wife. I can't. The census says he married in about 1905, presumably in America as it says he immigrated in 1900.
If it helps anyone, below is a quick summary of my research so far.
Kasimir appears in the 1910 US census at Bates Street, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MRSR-8ZGEmilia arrived at Ellis Island in 1911 aboard the SS Celtic with her prior residence given as Girwelyki:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJPF-7XMKasimir and Emilia married on 17 May 1913 at Lewiston:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-XD59They had a child on 10 August 1914 at Lewiston called Kasimir or Charles:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-XFN9Kasimir Senior was registered for the draft in 1917, with his date of birth recorded as 20 March 1876:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HM-R5KTKasimir and Emilia's family appear in the 1920 US census at Knox Street, Lewiston:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFZ4-4FDKasimir and Emilia and their son returned to Lithuania in the early 1920s.
Another man, Josef Szinkunas, was travelling with Kasimir on the SS Amerika in 1906. Josef also gave Antanis of Lewisport as his American contact and cited him as a brother-in-law. Josef went to Lewiston (he appears in the same household as Kasimir in 1910) but ended up in Rochester, New York. This is him in some American censuses:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS4F-QRPhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X78Q-8S4https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ58-XKBThis is the birth of Josef's eldest daughter:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-373C