TWINS!

At 6 a.m. on 7 April 1819, twins were born. The "renowned" Maciej Wiciejewski and his wife Maryanna (nee Mitelski) was aged 36. He worked as a potter. The parents were my 4x great grandparents. Wojciech and Konstancja were the 7th and 8th of nine children. Their first born, Salomea (my 3x great grandmother) was 15 years old when they were born. Witnesses for the birth were Kazimierz Cyronski, 50, a spoonmaker & Rafal Lusawicki, 40, a carpenter. What happened to the twins when they grew up? Konstancja married at age 22 to Jan Nitka. Her father was deceased. Jan was a 46 year old widower of the Greek Catholic rite from Rusianow, Galicia, Austria. Konstancja died as a widow at age 77 in the village of Rybnica. She likely moved there when she was married. Wojciech married at age 30 to Victoria Melin from Dabrowa. He was an apprentice blacksmith at the time. He married Anna Makar from Majdany Jozefow. Her parents were deceased and she was working as a maid in Tomaszow Lubelski. Wojiech died at age 50 before his wife. The dates of the marriages are a little confusing because it appears that he married Victoria a year before he died but his death record lists his wife Anna. Maybe the second wife wasn’t recognized or remembered by whoever was reporting the death. Several of my (new found) second cousins have twins: Tomasz Raczkiewicz from Poznan, Poland (his grandparent was Bolesaw.) Andzej Dubiel from Sabaudia, Poland (his grandparent was Paulina.) Paul Parkanzky from Newago, Michigan (his grandparent was Marianna). David Mastee from Texas, US (his grandparent was also Marianna.) Twins run in families but only the mother’s genes control this. A background of twins matters only if it is on the mother’s side. Based on that, I think that even though there are at least four sets of twins in this generation, that twins do not run in our family. https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/twin-genetics#:~:text=This%20is%20why%20fraternal%20twins,is%20on%20the%20mother's%20side.