Jozef Kurkiewicz & Ewa (Wisniewska) Rachanska Wed on 30 July 1837

Jozef Kurkiewicz (my 3x great grandfather) was a 23 year old bachelor, living with his parents, Antoni Kurkiewicz and Marianna Kiszczyńska, when he married Ewa (Wiśniewska) Rachanska on 30 July 1837. His parents were farmers in Tomaszów Lubelski. Ewa was a 28 year old who had been widowed for six years. She was born in Tomaszów Lubelski to Błażej Wiśniewski and his wife Agnieszka nee Szczesnicki. Her mother was deceased at the time of this marriage and Ewa was living with her father on his farm. Her father had been a potter and also worked as a grave digger. Ewa’s first husband Wincenty Rachanski, had been a journeyman shoemaker. Wincenty and their only child Feliks both died in 1831, after Ewa and Wincenty had been married only about a year. That year there were outbreaks of both cholera and influenza. Witnesses to the marriage of Jozef and Ewa: Jan Recki & Antoni Lachowski Photo by Marko Milivojevic on Pixnio