The Story of Jan Raczkiewicz (appx. 1778 - Jan. 1, 1853)

Jan Raczkiewicz (my 4x great-grandfather) died January 1, 1853, at 9:00 in the evening. Two of his children , Wojciech, 42, and Marcin, 33, confirmed their father’s death with the authorities. He was a widower because his wife Apolonia nee Golebiowska died nine years earlier in 1844. Jan was born approximately in 1778 since he was 75 years old when he died. Jan was the son of Paweł and Franciszka Raczkiewicz, peasant farmers from Łaszczówka. Jan and his wife Apolonia lived as peasant farmers in Majdan Górny, where his wife was born. Jan and Apolonia had nine children, possibly ten: Michal (1805), Piotr (1809), Wojciech (1813), Katarzyna (1815), Szymon (1818), Marcin (1821) Jakub (1824), Marianna (1828), and Agnieszka (1831.) Pawel is the possible 10th child. He died in 1811 at age 1. I have not found a birth notice for him and his death notice only lists Jan Raczkiewicz in Majdan Gorny in house #90 but not his mother, so I haven’t been able to verify if he was one of their children. Michal (my 3x great-grandfather) married Anna Dominik from Majdan Górny and moved to Sabaudia. He remarried at age 67. Piotr married twice and both women were from Majdan Górny. Wojciech married once and lived in Majdan Górny. Katarzyna married a widower from Majdan Górny and Szymon married a widow from Łaszczówka, Marcin’s first wife was a widow from Ruda Wołoska, his second wife was from Majdan Górny, and his third wife was from Wieprzowe Jezioro. Jakub married Rozalia Grabek, Her parents: Łukasz Grabek & Katarzyna Krawczyk, my 3x great grandpa. The last two children, Marianna and Agnieszka died young in 1829 and 1832. The record doesn’t indicate the cause of death but there was a huge outbreak of cholera in Europe which was brought to Poland by Russian soldiers.