Andrzej Kaszucki died Sept. 18 1861

Andrzej Kaszucki (my third great grandfather) was likely a very respected man. When his daughter was married in 1885, when he was 53, he was listed as a burgher in the city of Tomaszow. He wouldn’t have been a grand burgher, a hereditary title reserved for the magnates. He would have been a minor burgher, as he worked in the middle class as a furrier, carrying on the tradition of his father who came from Uhnow, Galicia, Austria from a family of furriers. His family was of the Greek Catholic tradition up to his granddaughter Katarzyna’s marriage to my great grandfather Jan Raczkiewicz. ***** Another way that respect can be seen is in the way he was a witness or declarant for deaths and births of people besides his own children. On June 25 1821 at 8am, his niece Marianna Kaszucka (daughter of Teodore & Teodora.) Wojciech Kudlicka was born in the house of Jan Samalski (#425.) On June 28 at 10pm, Andrzej went with another furrier and presented himself to a priest at the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church and confirmed her birth. ***** As their father, he did this for all of his children. For instance on April 7 1824 at 7pm, he and Rafal Laswicki, a carpenter and Mikolaj Niedźwiedź, went from his father-in-law’ Maciej Wiciejwski’s house #27, where Nicholas was born the day before at 11am and made sure the birth was registered. ***** Another time he was a declarant or witness was on June 18, 1827 at 10 a.m., when along with his brother Fedory, 36, he was a witness for their other brother Fidora's death. Fidora died the day before at noon. Andrzej and the brother who was the other witness were both furriers. The 25 year old brother who died mid-day was a shoemaker and left behind a widowed wife Maryanna nee Mirowski. ***** When he died at age 62 on 18 September 1861 at 2a.m., his friends and family returned the favor. His son Jozef and another furrier, Mikolaj Tracznaki went two days later on 20 September at 4pm and presented themselves and confirmed his death.