Monday, May 10, 2021

A Challenging Life: Marianna Wiciejewska is born May 13, 1851

Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz - Wieśniaczka z dzieckiem Salomea (Wiciejewska) Kaszucki (my 3x great grandmother) was Godmother to her niece Marianna Wiciejewska and she likely worried about her alot. The importance of Godparents can’t be under-estimated. Godparents promise to help raise a baby in the faith. Marianna’s live had some challenges. ***** Salomea was the oldest of nine children of Maciej Wiciejewski (my 4th great grandparents) and Marianna nee Metalska. Their youngest Valentine (Walenty), age 28, had a daughter, Marianna (my 1rs cousin, 4x removed on May 13, 1851, 170 years ago. Besides Salomea, the other godparent was Tomasz Cielniak,/Kielniak 39. The witness wasAndrzej Heyzner, 44. Tomasz and Andrzej were peasants from the village Para. The father Walenty also lived there with his wife Helena nee Jozefko, 30 and worked as an innkeeper. ***** When Marianna was 21 years old, she was unmarried and working as a servant when she had her son Wladyslaw in 1874. The declarant was Agnieszka Uminska, 52 rather than a husband.. The witnesses were Maciej Janusz and Jan Gucz, (both 50 and church sextons.) The Godparents were Franciszek Kielarski and Maryanna Kulczyn. She was still unmarried nine years later in 1883 when she had Piotr. The witnesses were Jan Kudlicka, 24 and Bronislaw Berezecki, 30. The Godfather was Jan Kudlicka and the record is illegible so the Godmother's name r is unknown. In 1884, Marianna was temporarily living 22 miles north in Zamosc. The reason that she was living there is not given--was she there to work? Was she in a hospital? She died there at age 32. A cause of death is not given--according to the history list I have, at this time there was a struggle for democracy and the effects of overpopulation as well as the breaking up of the estates. The witnesses were both workers from the local church. It is unknown where Marianna’s children were. If alive, Wladyslaw would have been 10 years old and Piotr would have been one year old. ***** Image credit: Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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