The story of Lukasz & Justyna Kiszczynski

There are Grand Rapids connections to my fifth grandfather Lukasz Kiszczynski. I believe his brother Alexsander married Marianna Budzinska and their oldest son Wawrzyniec married Teresa Janusz. Their daughter Salomea Petryna had two children that ended up in Grand Rapids – Rozalia Sochan and Antonina Szymanski. Also, Wawrzyniec’s daughter Rozalia Włochowicz had two children move to Grand Rapids: Vincent Peter and Pauline (Stanazak) Czarnopyś, – It is hard to know very much about relatives who lived many generations ago. Justyna Kiszczynska (my 5x great grandfather) died on August 9, 1814, when she was 56 years old. This means she was born in approximately 1758. She died in house number 89 in Tomaszów Lubelski. She died at 10 o’clock at night. I do not know who her parents were or what their last name was because the informants didn’t share that with the priest when they reported about her death. One witness was Jakub, her 25-yea- old son and the other was Ambrozy Kudlcki, age 56 and a neighbor. Her husband Lucasz was already deceased when she died. I only know about two of their children: Their daughter Marianna (my 4x great grandmother) was 27 years old at the time of her mother’s death. She was married to Antoni Józef Kurkiewicz, son of Marcin Kurkiewicz and Franciszka Rzeczycka. At the time of her mother’s death, they already had two of their twelve children. They were shoemakers. Their son Jakub had not yet married but would also marry a Kurkiewicz – Marianna – whose father and mother were Pawel Kurkiewicz and Marianna Pasko. Jakub was also a shoemaker.