The Story of Lukasz Kaszucki & Agata Krzaczkowska.

Łukasz Kaszucki (my 4x great grandfather) was a Greek Catholic furrier in the city of Uhnów in Galicia, Austria, which was in the Ukraine Province of Lwów. The name is Uhniv in Ukrainian and Uhnów in Polish. The current population is 939. Łukasz was born between 1750 and 1770, during the time when the area was under Austrian control because of the First Partition of Poland, which occurred in 1722. This resulted in the area being awarded to the Habsburg Empress Maria-Theresa, the only female Hapsburg ruler, who ruled Austria and other countries, until her death in 1780. This area was called the province of Galicia. The new borders cut off some trade and markets. Additionally, the Austrian government didn’t want industry to develop in this area, instead expecting it to remain agricultural to provide food and raw materials for other Hapsburg provinces. These limits and new taxes resulted in poverty, with the area the Kaszucki family was living in being the poorest province in Austro-Hungary. Famines began in the early 1800s and continued off and on up to the 1900’s. The Austrian government also conscripted men from this area for their imperial army. Łukasz was married to Agata Krzaczkowska. They had three sons who moved to Tomaszów Lubelski and worked (two as furriers and one as a shoemaker), married, and died there. It is unknown if there were other children back at home. Two of the sons had the same or a similar name – Teodor and Fedor. There are various spellings of both names, further confusing the issue. . Teodor Kaszucki married Teodora (“Teska”) Czyszykiewicz when they were both 23 years old. Her father also was a furrier like Teodor and lived at house #219 Krasnobrodzki Street in Tomaszów Lubelski with her mother Anna Jewniczuk. . The wedding was on February 25, 1816, at Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Greek Catholic Church.Teodora/Teodozja/Feodysia, who was going by the nickname “Teska,” had a change of surname. Her father Stephan changed their name from Czyszykiewicz to Panczyszak. Teodor died on December 15, 1862. He was widowed, working as a laborer and was 70 years old. Szymon Ziółkowski, a shoemaker and Jozef Kaszucki, a furrier, reported the death. Fedor married Marianna Mirowska. He was working as a shoemaker. They had three children: Mikolaj (b. 1825), Maciej (b. 1827) who died at birth, and Apolonia (b. Abt. 1829) who married Mikolaj Malec. Fedor died on June 17, 1827, at the young age of 25. The death record indicates his mother is still alive but his father is deceased. His brothers Fedory, age 36 and Andrzej, age 30, reported his death. Marriana remarried on October 9, 1831 to Andrzej Zolkiewski and had seven more children. Andrzej married Salomea Wiciejewska (my 3x great grandparents) on January 26, 1823. The record states that his father is deceased but his mother is still alive. Andrzej and Salomea had nine children between 1823 and 1847. Andzej died on September 18, 1861, fifteen months before his brother Theodore died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhniv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa Photo credit: Uhnow | historia regionu Regionally dressed peasants in Uhnow-Rawa-Poddubce region in a photo of a 19th century painting by Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz