The Story of Antoni Raszkiewicz & Marianna Grabek

“Presented himself Łukasz Grabek, a peasant from Majdan Górny, age 45 and in the presence of witnesses Tomasz Krawczyk, age 28 and Andrzej Typek, age 41, both peasants from Majdan Górny and showed us a female child born in Majdan Górny on 10th of this current month and year at 3 o'clock in the morning from his wife Katarzyna née Krawczyk, age 40. This child during Holy Baptism today was given the name Maryanna and the Godparents were the above-mentioned Tomasz Krawczyk and Katarzyna Krawczyk.” (Genealogical Translations FB page, 5/18/2020 Dorothy Woloszczuk ) This is how the translated record reads of Marianna Grabek (my 2x great grandmother) who was born in Tomaszów on February 10, 1843. The Godparent, Tomasz Krawczyk, was her uncle. The Godmother had the same name as her mother but was her mother’s sister-in-law. Marianna’s mother came from Laszczowka and moved to Majdan Górny when she married her husband Lukasz. Marianna’s parents were married for twenty years before they had her, the youngest in the family. Two of her five siblings made it to adulthood. ***** The nineteen-year-old girl from Majdan Górny married 20-year-old Antoni Raczkiewicz. Antoni (my 2x great grandfather) was born May 4 1842. It was spelled with an “s” instead of a “c.” His parents, Michał Raszkiewicz, age 39, and Anna Dominik, age 38, were peasants from Majdan Górny. Marcin Raszkiewicz and Michal Sidor, both peasants from Majdan Górny helped to report the birth and his Godparents were Marcin and Katarzyna Prodowa. Antoni’s parents had 11 children -- Antoni was the 8th one. ***** Like Marianna, Antoni was also born in Majdan Górny, but his family moved to Sabaudia. Antoni’s great grandfather Paweł lived in Łaszczówka, his grandfather Jan moved to Majdan Górny and his father Michał moved to Sabaudia. They lived in Majdan Górny until approximately 1848 when they moved to Sabaudia. Sabaudia is a village that is about five miles from Majdan Górny and about two miles northeast of the city of Tomaszów Lubelski. Wikipedia says there are currently about 600 people living there. ***** Their marriage was on November 16, 1862, in Tomaszów Lubelski. Antoni’s older brother Marcin Raczkiewicz, 40, was one of the witnesses. The second witness was Jakub Herda, 45, a peasant farmer from Górno, who was married to Antoni’s older sister Marianna. ***** Antoni and Marianna had two children together: Jan (1864) and Marianna (1867). ***** Antoni died on July 1, 1868, at the young age of 26. The witnesses were Jan Skurz, age 27 and Andrzej Bonczko, age 40, both peasants living in Sabaudia. Antoni’s parents were still alive. There is no cause of death given, but there was an outbreak of cholera in Russia, and the struggle for democracy and overpopulation led to food shortages and other factors. Their son Jan (my great grandfather) was four years old when his father passed away.Their one-year-old daughter Marianna died a month later. ***** Marianna was widowed and two and a half years later, she married her second husband, Tomasz Kędra, on February 13, 1871. Tomasz was born and lived in the village Jeziernia. He was the 20-year-old son of Michał Kędra and Anastazja nee Król, both already deceased. Marianna’s parents were also already deceased. The witnesses were Jan Skurcz, 38-years-old, and Michal Bender, 35-years-old, both peasants, living in the village of Sabaudia. Marianna was 25 years old and was living in the village of Sabaudia when she married Tomasz. Her son Jan was seven years old. Tomasz had never been married before and had no children. ***** Tomasz and Marianna had two children – Józef (1871) and Katarzyna (1873). On February 15, 1881, Marianna died after ten years of marriage. Surviving her were her husband Tomasz and children Jan, age 17, Józef, age 10, and Katarzyna, age 8. Her 34-year-old husband reported the death along with Jan Raczkiewicz, age 45. ***** A few months later, Tomasz, age 33, married again, this time to Anna Raczkiewicz, age 19, on May 8, 1881. This was the second marriage for both of them. Anna was the daughter of Jan Raczkiewicz and Katarzyna nee Pisarczyk from Górno. (So she would have been the niece of Marianna’s deceased husband Antoni Raczkiewicz.) This couple would be my step great grandmother and step great grandfather. ***** What happened to the children of the original couple, my 2x great grandparents Antoni Raczkiewicz and Marianna Grabek? Jan Raczkiewicz (my great grandfather), their only surviving child, married Katarzyna Kaszucka of Tomaszów Lubelski, four years later. ***** What happened to the children of my 2x great grandmother Marianna Grabek and her husband Tomasz Kedra? Józef married Józefa Skurz in 1905 at the age of 35. They were already married in Austrian Galicia and this act registered the children they had – Katarzyna (b. 1897) and Wladysława (b. 1901) – who were legitimized by this act. The explanation in the record is that the delay was for an external reason, independent of their will. Katarzyna later married Wojciech Typek ofMajdan Górny and was a widow when she died at age 45 in 1918. ***** I am unsure of how many of their own children Tomasz and Anna went on to have but they did start out with Jakub (1883), Rozalia (1885), Józefa (1899), and Jan (1890) – all born in Sabaudia. ***** (picture of Sabaudia sign from Andrzej)