Travel to a New Life: Part Two

Other friends and family made their way to Grand Rapids, Michigan from Tomaszow Lubelskie, Poland. In February, 1910, Anthony’s older brother Jan Raczkiewicz traveled from Hamburg, Germany to New York on a ship called the Pennsylvania. He was a 22 year old, single farmer/day laborer from Tomaszow. He traveled with Stanislaw Czernopis (Czarnopys?) who was 20 and also a single farmer/day laborer. It appears that Stanley returned to Poland and came back through Canada with a wife, Sophia, early in March of 1913. Shortly after that in March of 1913, Anthony’s future first wife, Klementyna Goleiowska, traveled to the U.S, six months after Anthony. (Check out line 11 of the image above.) She landed in New York with a final, planned destination of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She had a relative, Wicenty Zyzyk who was already in the U.S but the ship manifest is not legible enough to discern where he was living. She was a 17 year old servant girl traveling with a friend, Paulina Malec, a 17 year old farm hand. Also on the ship from the same home town of Tomaszow was Katarzyna Nadowornik , a 45 year old housewife and her children Feliska, 17, Katarzyna, 14 and Joseph, 11. Katarzyna was a witness later at Antoni and Katarzyna’s wedding. Anthony’s sister Marion Raczkiewicz, a 22 year old farm laborer, departed from Antwerp, Belgium and arrived in New York on August 5, 1913, with a final, planned destination of staying with her brother Antoni Raczkiewicz at 208 Lexington St., Grand Rapids. She traveled with Stanislawa Kudlicka, 19. Anthony’s brother Jan married her relative Frances Kudlicka. In their group was also, Marya Golobiowska, 20, the sister of Klementyna, Anthony’s first wife. They also were with Jozef Lesikiewier (Lesikiewicz?), 26. From the same area was Julia Kuczynska, 23, and her two year old daughter, Wanda.