Location: Łaszczówka

The Raczkiewicz side of the family lived in rural areas outside the city of Tomaszów Lubelski. In the wedding record for tomorrow’s date in 1823, the bride and her family are from Łaszczówka [waʂˈt͡ʂufka], about one mile east of the city of Tomaszów Lubelski. There are about 1,000 people living in the village today. ***** While all the records indicate that the Raczkiewicz side were peasant farmers in places like Łaszczówka, Majdan Górny, Sabaudia, there was little indication of what type of farming they were doing. The land likely belonged to the baron Zamoyski whose family started the town of Tomaszów Lubelski. I figured out one crop in the area was by looking at the 1840 wedding record of a relative from Anthony Raczkiewicz’s mother’s side. His mother’s side had jobs like shoemaker, furrier, etc. while his father’s side were all peasant farmers. Two of the witnesses in the record were from nearby (within 3 miles) Przeorsk. The groom was an estate steward/supervisor and one witness was a tobacco guard. I don’t know if tobacco was also grown in nearby Łaszczówka. Agricultural land in the area can also be used for cereal crops such as wheat, fodder, fruits, vegetables, and raising cattle, chickens and sheep. ***** Added clarification from Andrzej Dubiel: Laszczow and Laszczowka are two different places. The first one is bigger and is it 20 km. east of Tomaszow. The second one is a village near Tomaszow --about 3km away. Image from Facebook page: Historia Regionu Tomaszow Lubelski Belz Rawa Ruska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81aszcz%C3%B3wka