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