Franciszka (Rzeczyczki) Kurkiewicz Died July 16 1829 & her husband Marcin Kurkiewiciz died July 16, 1828

Franciszka (Rzeczycki) Kurkiewicz (my 5th great grandmother) died 16 July 1829 at 3:00 in the morning. She was 80 years old. One witness was Antoni Kurkiewicz (my 4th great grandfather), her 44 year old son who was a shoemaker. The other witness was Jan Bratkiewicz, a 32 year old farmer. Franciszka was 80 years old and a native of Tomaszów Lubelski. ***** Her husband Marcin Kurkiewicz (5x great grandfather) died exactly one year earlier on 16 July 1828, also at the age of 80. Jan Bratkiewicz, (Marcin’s son-in-law) a 31 year old furrier, and Antoni Kurkiewicz, (his son) a 42 year old shoemaker, reported the death. He was from Mościsk. Maybe someone from Poland can suggest which of these possibilities it could be? ***** -Mościska kolonia Dorohusk chełmski lubelskie 0102628 -cisk ***** -Mościska wieś Rudnik krasnostawski lubelskie 0897734 -cisk mościski ***** -Mościska wieś Sosnowica parczewski lubelskie 0108312 -cisk mościski ***** -Mościska wieś Kąkolewnica radzyński lubelskie 0013310 -cisk mościski ***** Franciszka and Marcin were "Lawnikow" jurors, of the town of Tomaszow. I have found only two children for them (so far.) Antoni Jozef ( my 4x great grandfather) who married Marianna Kiszczynska and had 12 children. The other one was Jozefa who married Jan Bratkiewicz and Jan Redzki/Recki.

Pauline (Skrobat) Raczkiewicz Died on July 3, 1990

Pauline Raczkiewicz (my grandmother) died on July 3, 1990 In Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was given the name Apolonia Skrobot at birth in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Wladyslaw (Walter) Skrobat and Anna nee Barszcz. The were both from the Moszczenica area of Poland with Walter coming to the US in the mid 1890s and Anna coming from Ropica Gorna in 1900. She was the oldest of 12 children, of which seven made it to adulthood. *****

Her husband Anthony passed away ten years earlier on October 31, 1980, at the age of 85. They had been married 60 years. ***** From her obituary: Pauline died on July 3, 1990, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the age of 86. Surviving were her sons Anthony (Cecilia) and Ronald (Pamela), daughter Shirley (Roy) Longwell, 9 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren, three sisters Mary Schossler, Jane (Bill) Adams (both of Oil City, PA) and Victoria Palczewski (Grand Rapids) and a brother (Adam Scrobat) as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Lorraine and grandson, Robert. ***** She was a member of the Basilica of St. Adalbert, Polish National Association and Ladies Rosary Society. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at the Basilica of St. Adalberts, Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery and visitors were received at Arsulowicz Brothers Mortuary, West at 585 Stocking Ave.

Antoni Raczkiewicz Died July 1 1868

Both my 2x great grandfather Antoni Raczkiewicz and his wife, my 2x great grandmother Marianna nee Grabek were widowed and then remarried. This means that by the time he was 17 years old, my great grandfather Jan Raczkiewicz had lost both of his parents. ***** Antoni Raczkiewicz (my 2x great grandfather) died young (1 July 1868), a few months after his 26th birthday. I do not know the cause of death but there was an outbreak of cholera in Russia that year. The witnesses were Jan Skurcz, 27 and Andrzej Bonczko/Baczko?, 40, who were both farmers in Sabaudia. Antoni also was a farmer in Sabaudia. Antoni’s parents, Michal Raczkiewicz and Anna nee Dominik, were still alive and farming in Sabaudia. Antoni came from a family of eleven children, four of which died in childhood. ***** Antoni left behind his widowed wife, Marianna nee Grabek. They had two children, Jan and Marianna. Marianna died in infancy. Jan was four years old when his father died. (He later became my great grandfather, marrying Katarzyna Kaszucka.) ***** Antoni’s wife, Marianna nee Grabek remarried a year and a half after his death to Tomasz Kedra. Marianna and Tomasz had two children: Jozef and Katarzyna. Marianna (wife of Antoni first and Tomasz second) died when Tomasz’s children were eight and ten years old and Antoni’s son Jan was 17 years old. The father of Jozef and Katarzyna (Tomasz) remarried three months later to Anna nee Raczkiewicz (daughter of Jan Raczkiewicz and

Katarzyna nee Pisarczyk.) ***** Image credit: By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/72/5d/1b3f72dc9b4c0588ffd1388133b3.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0010490.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-31): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cfcdztbq CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36452978