Albert Vidunas of California

California

#NotMyVidunas (maybe)

The California Albert Vidunas may have been the same person as the Massachusetts Albert Vidunas, but I'm not sure.  Therefore, we will deal with California as a separate entity.

1960 California

Albert Vidunas 1960, 377 Meridian Road, San Jose CA
from GoogleMaps Streetview

The City directory shows Alb Vidunas, 377 Meridian Road, San Jose, California.  Occupation In.  Notice the truncated FIRST name, but the full last name.  Also, what kind of occupation is "In?"
San Jose CA City Directory 1960, from Ancestry.com 2017

1971 California

City Seal
from Wikipedia

Albert Vidunas.  Sunnyvale street, San Jose, Santa Clara CA.  Occupation Manager
San Jose, California City Directory 1971, from Ancestry.com 2017.

Sunnyvale itself is a large city in the San Francisco Bay area.  I couldn't find much on the street.

I found information for Al Vidunas, and for Algart Vidunas of Sunnyvale, but I cannot figure out if they are Albert Vidunas, or if they are different people



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Albert Vadenais of Rhode Island

Rhode Island

Little Boy
from AntiqueClipart

#NotMyVidunas

1930 Census RI, son of Joseph and Celina

Albert Vadenaes aka Vadenais is 18 years old, born about 1912.  He lives with his Canadian-born parents Joseph O. and Celina Vadenaes and presumably his siblings Rodolphe, Gracia, Marie, and Gabrielle.  He is a Crunter in the wool mill, and they live at 210 Cottage Street, Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island.  I came across this young man during my search on Ancestry.com for Albert Vidunas.  While the spelling of this name is odd -- okay, it is weird -- you COULD argue that it would pronounce as Vidunas.  However, this is the only instance of living in Rhode Island.  Although, it is close to Massachusetts.  Let me do a bit more research ..... loading ..... Okay, got it.  This is not of the Vidunas clan.  I looked at the original census, and everyone except young Albert here was born in French Canada and spoke French.  We can strike this name off of our list.  If this is your ancestor, the hyperlink is above, and the link itself is down below, just in case you want to print this thing out.

Whew!  A google search for "Crunter" is exhausting.

1. Crunter is a surname
2. Crunter is a shy lonely scrawny guy according to the Urban dictionary, and ... eww, don't look that up, please.
3. Crunter is a type of character in Minecraft, and I found reference in WoW, but I didn't chase those down.
4. Lots of mis-references to "Counter"
5. Index of old European occupations here -- http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html
6. Webster's online dictionary has nothing
7. Rootsweb's list of old occupations has nothing -- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgwkidz/oldjobs.htm
8. Yourdictionary.com got lost
9. I tried searching for jobs in a wool mill in 1930, with no results
10. Let's look at that census again
1. Well, it certainly looks like "crunter" in the census, but it probably is "counter" like brother Rodolphe.  
2. I still cannot find what this occupation might have been.  I did find some interesting information about working in a wool mill here, with link below.  

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Resources:

• Joseph and Celine Vadenais 1930 Census
• https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4547310_00164?pid=4217325&backurl=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db%3D1930usfedcen%26indiv%3Dtry%26h%3D4217325%26indivrecord%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true
• Working in a Wool Mill
• http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newsouth/5493