Paulina Kurkiewicz born June 27, 1838

Paulina Kurkiewicz (my 2x great grandmother) was born June 27, 1838 at 8:00 in the evening. The witnesses were Jakób Palm , “ex traditional captain “, 50 and Tomasz Krotki, a writer in the Customs Office in Tomaszów ,58, both residing in Tomaszów. The godparents were Jakób Palm and Tekla Orzechowka. ***** Her parents were Józef Kurkiewicz and Ewa (nee Wiśniewska, previous married name Rachanska.) They are the couple that Mike Liszewski and his sisters Betty and Joan and I have in common. Paulina’s younger brother Ignatious is their great grandfather. This makes Mike and his sisters my third cousins 1 time removed. ***** Paulina was the first born of five children of Józef and Ewa. Ewa had been previously married to Wincenty Rachanski in the parish of Łabunie, Krynice, 16 kilometers north of Tomaszow Lubelski. Wincenty and their son Feliks died in 1831. When Feliks died at 9 months old -- his father predeceased him by one month. Wincenty was a likely casualty of the November Uprising. After their deaths, Ewa moved back to Tomaszow and lived with her father. She married Jozef around six years later, July 30, 1937 and Paulina was born around a year later. ***** Image credit: By F. D. Richards from Clinton, MI - Clematis 'Niobe' (Poland, 1970) 2020 photo, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93803072

Regina (Wojcik) Dominik Died June 15 1853

When Regina (Wojcik) Dominik (my 4x great grandmother) in 1853, several other people died in Majdan Gorny. She died June 15 was an 80 year old peasant. The witnesses that reported the death in Tomaszów two days later were Michał Raczkiewicz and Kazmierz Mazur. Michal was 54 years old and from Sabuadia. He was Regina’s son-in-law, married to Anna (nee Dominik.) The other witness Kazmierz was 60 years old and was from Majdan Górno, where Regina was from. ***** Regina was a widow because her husband Tomasz had died 22 years earlier. Her husband had been previously married to Helena Szyydolwska and they had children together. Tomasz and Rozalia had at least four children: Rozalia, Anna, Magdalena, Antoni. ***** One of their children died in childhood when in 1814, 12 year old Rozalia “died of earth,” ( Zabita od ziemi) – possibly a farming accident. Their second child Anna (my 3x great grandmother) married Michal Raczkiewicz and had 11 children. ***** Their third and fourth children died in their 40s. Magdalena married Bartlomiej. She died two years after her mother as a 45 year old widow working as a day laborer. Antoni died as a beggar, nine months after his mother at the young age of 40. During the time period that Regina and Magdalena and Antoni died there was cholera and the Great Famine but no cause of death is given in the records. ***** Another death in 1853 in Majdan Gorny was Jan Raczkiewicz (my 4x great grandfather) who died in January at age 75. He was Anna nee Dominik’s father-in-law. Katarzyna (Krawczyk) Grabek (my 3x great grandmother) also died there in March at age 50. ***** By MichalPL - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114597634

Paulina Raczkiewicz was born June 12, 1901