Paulina (Kurkiewicz) Kaszucka Died October 24, 1905

Paulina (Kurkiewicz) Kaszucka (my 2x great grandmother) died at 5pm in the afternoon on October 24, 1905 in Sabaudia at age 77. Paulina was a widow since her husband Jozef (Stefan Jozef) Kaszucka had already died but I don’t know the date. There were two witnesses who reported Paulina’s death. The first one was Jan Raczkiewicz (my great grandfather) who was 40 years old. He was Paulina’s son-in-law. He was married to Katarzyna, Paulina and her husband’s daughter. Katarzyna was their 5th child and the only one who made it into adulthood. Her husband Jan was the only living child in his family. All of their children (except for Boleslaw -- the youngest) would have known their babcia Paulina. The other witness was Maciej Bender who was 42 years old. He was the great grandfather of Eugeniusz Raczkiewicz and grandfather of his mother Josepha Janina. Both Jan and Maciej were peasants, residing in the village of Sabaudia. They traveled into the town of Tomaszow two days after Paulina’s death to provide the eye-witness confirmation of her death. When Paulina Kurkiewicz was born on June 27, 1838, in Tomaszów, Lubelskie, Poland, her father, Józef Kurkiewicz was 22, and her mother, Ewa, Wiśniewska, was 29. Her mother had previously been widowed. Paulina had five brothers and one sister including Ignacy Kurkiewicz (Mike and his sibling’s great grandfather) who married Antonina Czarnopys. Her husband Jozef was born on August 10, 1832, in Tomaszów Lubelski, the son of Salomea and Andrzej. He had six brothers and two sisters. He first married Katarzyna Szokalewicz in Tomaszów, Lubelskie, Poland, on February 9, 1851, when he was 18 years old. They were both Greek Catholics. They had two children together and they were baptized and confirmed according to the Eastern rite. His wife Katarzyna passed away on November 22, 1862, in Tomaszów, Lubelskie, Poland, at the age of 31. They had been married 11 years. Paulina was Józef’s second wife when they married On 25th January 1863, at 4:00 p.m. in Tomaszów Lubelski. The witnesses were Szymon Żółkiewski, a shoemaker, 53, and Marcin Halkiewicz, a farmer, 42, both of whom were residing in Tomaszów Jozef, age 30, of the Greek Uniate faith and Paulina, age 24, was of the Roman Catholic faith. The banns were announced in the Tomaszów Latin Church even though Józef was Greek Catholic. The banns were announced on 11th, 18th, 25th January -- so they started a month and a half after he was widowed. Normally, there is a rush to remarry if there are young children involved but four-year-old Joanna had died in October and her mother died a month later. Their other child Jan had died at six months old a few years earlier. Józef and his parents Andrzej Kaszucki and Salomea nee Wiciejowska were furriers. He had been born in Tomaszów Lubelski and was residing there with his parents. His father came from Uhnów, Ukraine. Paulina was the daughter of Józef Kurkiewicz and Ewa nee Wiśniewska, shoemakers from Tomaszów Lubelski. Józef and Paulina had five children together and the boys were baptized and confirmed according to the Eastern rite and the girls were baptized according to the Roman rite. By Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17133870

Jan Raczkiewicz was born October 23, 1927

Jan Raczkiewicz (my 1rst cousin 1x removed) was born October 23, 1927 to Piotr Raczkiewicz and his wife Józefa Szczupakowska. He was their firstborn of two sons. He was born in Domanisz, near Łaszczów, when Piotr was 30 years old and Józefa was 21 years old. Jan married Stanisława Konopka from the Pieniny Mountains. I am not sure of the date of their wedding. They had three children: Wiesław on April 11, 1948, Ryszard in 1949 (not sure of the date) and Maria on January 3, 1956. Jan and Stanisława worked as state institution workers. Jan died April 3, 2007 in Pruszkow, Poland at the age of 80. Does anyone have a picture of him? By MOs810 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28932372