Tuesday, October 20, 2020

What Jobs Did My Family Do in Poland?

(This image is from: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/45548-a-group-of-russian-peasants-and-children Occupations are often listed in birth, death and marriage records. I have been able to see what time of work relatives were doing. Anthony Raczkiewicz’s father side predominantly had one line of work: peasant farmer (wloscianin), going back as far as I could discover with people who had been born as early as 1753. Anthony’s mother’s side (Katarzyna Kaszucka) was more varied. Her father’s family were furriers (kuśnierz), all the way back to 1742 in Ulnow, Galicia (now Ukraine.) Many of them moved to Tomaszow Lubelski and continued to work as furriers. Lublin, Poland (Unsplash) On both her family’s sides, there were many potters (garncarz)--working in a factory making faience (a type of metal fired pottery) and porcelain. Besides ceramics, many of them made other things for a living. Some were considered master craftsmen (majster), and others were apprentices. A lot of them made shoes (szewc), others made fabric ( tkacz), wheels (stelmach), and barrels (bednarz). Some women were listed with occupations --often the same occupation as their husband-- or as a servant (sluzacy) or midwife (położna.) Some of the other occupations seen were: carpenter (stelmach), mason (mularz), grave-digger (grabarz), farmhand (robotnik rolny), farmer (rolnik) and soldier (zolnierz). https://www.polishpod101.com/polish-vocabulary-lists/20-common-words-for-occupations/

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