Anna Dubiel was Born May 25, 1877

Anna Dubiel was born May 25, 1877 in Rogozno. Her parents were Pawel Dubiel and Lucy nee Zachara. Her Godparents were Bartłomiej Mazur and Katarzyna ?. I haven’t had this Russian record translated. Here is a link to see it: https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/88/639/0/-/2/skan/full/U5zQC9EVvVmfkuK8ueJdng After I connected with Andrzej Dubiel (my newfound 2nd cousin) and we were working on Raczkiewicz relatives together, he mentioned that on his father’s side (Dubiel) that one of the siblings -- Anna-- had also gone to the U.S. but he didn’t know much about her. He told me, “Anna Dubiel was a sister of my great grandpa Wojciech Dubiel. She was born in 1877 and married Walenty Roczniak in 1906. I don't know what happened to them next.” I decided to look and see “what happened next.” I was able to use Ancestry and FamilySearch to piece together her story -- with a couple of extra bonuses. The two bonuses both came from a picture I found on Ancestry. It said that it was of Anna and her husband and children but I wanted to verify it before I shared it with Andrzej. I contacted a person connected with a family tree of Anna that had the picture and amazingly, in a short amount of time, I got a response. Besides verifying and identifying the people in the picture I was able to share Susan VandenBerg and Joan Kessler’s names with Andrzej. They wanted to make a connection to their family in Poland. The first part of Anna’s life was spent in Poland. Anna and Walenty Roczniak (my grandpa’s first wife’s mother was also named Roczniak) were married and three daughters were born -- Marion (1904), Josephine (1907) and Stella (1910), all in Tomaszów Lubelski. Her husband Walenty came to the U.S. first. Anna traveled from Trieste, France to Quebec, Canada, arriving May 6, 1913. Five days later she traveled from Canada to Detroit, Michigan. Her children Anastasia, 6 and Jozefa, 4, traveled with her. The manifest said she last lived in Woloszka Ruda, Tomaszów and that her sister in Tomaszów Lubelski was Marianna Szczepaniak. It also said she was going to her husband Walenty Roczniak in Grand Haven. Their 3rd child Felicia had been born 6 years earlier May 27, 1914 in Grand Haven. There are several children I do not know where they were born. The family shows up (1920 census) in Emmett, Michigan (in the farthest northern portion of Michigan’s lower peninsula.) I am unsure if they lived there or were on an extended visit since they are listed in a section of the census that is marked with an X rather than an address. They were likely visiting Stanley Dubiel, Anna’s brother, who lived in Emmett. By 1921, another child was born in Grand Haven. It is likely that there are connections between some of the newfound “cousins.” In 1930 , Anna and her family lived in Grand Haven in the 5th ward and Walenty worked in a tannery. Two gentlemen roomers (Adam Wdowiak and George Dominik) of the Raszkiewicz family (related to Richard Streng, a new-found 4th cousin 1x removed) also worked at the tannery. Wojciech died in 1938 Ann Arbor a short time after surgery. He was buried back in Grand Haven. In 1940, widowed Anna lived in Grand Haven with 22 year old son Stanley. Anna died in 1954 in Grand Haven. Anna Dubiel was born May 25, 1877 in Rogozno. Her parents were Pawel Dubiel and Lucy nee Zachara. Her Godparents were Bartłomiej Mazur & Katarzyna ?. I haven’t had this Russian record translated. Here is a link to see it: https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/88/639/0/-/2/skan/full/U5zQC9EVvVmfkuK8ueJdng