Women's Occupations

This was going to be a post about women who worked as maids and day laborers. I thought six of the women that I have learned about worked as maids. Four of the six had lost both parents and one had lost her mother so it seemed plausible that they needed to work. I suddenly remembered though that marriage records also indicate if a person is single. The translator will use miss or maiden to designate that. I had the thought that maybe the translator wrote maid meaning “maiden” and not as an occupation. I asked Andrzej Dubeil (newfound 2x cousin) to check one for me and that was true--the women was single, not working as a maid. Two of the women are listed as day laborers: Malgorzata (nee Wiciejewska) Kulkielka (my 3x great aunt) was a day laborer when she died in 1857 at age 50. She had been a widow for two years. Konstancja Kurkiewicz (my 1rst cousin 5x removed) was an unmarried day laborer when she had five children during the period of 1856 to 1866. She eventually marries Aleksander Uminski and the record is amended for him to be legally recognized as their father. One woman was a shoemaker/cobbler. When Antonina Wiciejewska (my 3x great aunt) married Magaeusz Bulewicz, he was an apprentice shoemaker. When she died at age 41, her occupation was listed as shoemaker/cobbler.