Jozef Kurkiewicz Died December 30, 1874

On December 30 in 1874, the death of Jozef Kurkiewicz (my 3x great grandfather) was recorded in Tomaszów Lubelski. He died the day before. The declarants were Jan Kamiński, age 45, and Walenty Lisikiewicz,age 28, both farmers from Tomaszów Lubelski. Because records were recorded in Russian at this time, two dates were given -- December 30 and December 18. December 18 was from the Julian calendar, in use by Russia. The December 30 date is from the Gregorian calendar which Poland had been using and went back to using after 1917. It is the most commonly used calendar in the world. The difference between the Gregorian and Julian Calendars in the 19th century is 12 days. Jozef was 60 years old when he died. He left behind a widowed wife, Ewa née Wiśniewska (my 3x great grandmother. Ewa had previously been married to Wincenty Rachnski. She was widowed for six years before she married Jozef. Wincenty died during the time of the November Uprising which was November 1830 – 21 October 1831. Wincenty and Ewa’s son Felix was born in October of 1830 an his father was still alive. When Feliks died in August of 1821, his father was deceased by this time. Jozef was a shoemaker and a farmer like his father Anthony Kurkiewicz. His mother was Marjanna Kiszczyńska, Together Jozef and Ewa had five children. Their oldest child Paulina (b. 1838) was my 2x great grandmother. Their youngest child Ignatious (b. 1851) is the 2x great -grandfather of Mike Liszewski. I “found” Mike as a DNA match on Ancestry and now collaborate regularly with his wife Connie. Like me, Mike was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.