Jan Raczkiewicz Married Franciszka Kudlicka January 25, 1916

Jan Raczkiewicz (my great grand uncle) married Franciszka (Frances) Kudlicka on January 25, 1916, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was on the same day as his grandparents’ anniversary (Józef Kaszucki/Paulina Kurkiewicz.) The wedding was performed by the same priest, Joseph S. Kaminski from Sacred Heart, who later married Anthony (my grandpa) and his first wife Klementyna. Marriage records indicate that his parents were John Rackziewicz and Katie nee Kaszucka. Her parents were Konstania and Mary Kudlicka. Witnesses were Joseph Raczkiewicz (his brother) and Stanislawa Kudilicka (her sister.) When John RACZKIEWICZ JR. was born on June 21, 1889, in Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland, his father, John, was 24 and his mother, Katarzyna, was 17. He was their firstborn. Jan was the first of the Raczkiewicz siblings to come to the United States. He was 22 years old when he came. He left on February 3 1910 from Hamburg on the ship Pennsylvania. He arrived in New York on February 18. He traveled with several other men from Tomaszow: Stanislaw Czcnopis (probably Czarnopys), 20, Jonf Benks, 45, and Raische Agey, 36. His brothers Anthony and Joseph came two and a half years later and also settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The three brothers lived with each other at various different times and their sister Marion also later moved to the U.S