Anna Kurkiewicz Born 23 July 1884

This birth record is cool because it shows that just a few generations back our families hung around together. It is for the birth of Anna Kurkiewicz whose parents were Ignacy Kurkiewicz and Antonina Czarnopyś. I have connected with Mike Liszewski (my 3rd cousin 1x removed) and these parents are his great grandparents. My relative Jozef Kaszucki (2x great grandparent) is one of the godparents. So just a few generations ago, my family hung out with Mike’s family. ***** Also the witness Maciej Janusz is connected to Christina Bregg who matches my DNA. We have been in touch and I am working on figuring out where we connect. Her father, Stanley Sochanek was born in Tomaszow, Lublin, Poland. He escaped after World War II and settled in Grand Rapids. ***** Jozef Kaszucki had been a furrier but was at this point listed as a church sexton. Maciej Janusz was also a church sexton. A sexton is a church official who is responsible for the building and graveyard of the church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravedigger ‘Digging graves has also been one of the traditional duties of a church's sexton. In municipal and privately owned cemeteries, gravediggers may be low-paid, unskilled and temporary labourers, or they may be well-paid, trained and professional careerists, as their duties may include landscaping tasks and courteous interactions with mourners and other visitors.’ I am not sure if grave digging was one of Joseph's church sexton duties. ***** It happened in Tomaszów on 15/27 July, 1884 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Appeared Ignacy Kurkiewicz, 30 years old, living in Tomaszów , and in the presence of witnesses Józef Koszucki, 50 years old, and Maciej Janusz, 56 years old, both church sextons, living in Tomaszów, he presented to Us a child of female sex stating that it was born in Tomaszów 11/23 July of current year at 9 o'clock in the evening to his lawful wife Antonina née Czarnopys, 30 years old. At the Holy Baptism administered on this day this child was given the name Anna, Godparents: Józef Koszucki and Marijanna Czarnopys. This document was read aloud to the illiterate present and then signed only by Us.