Ewa (Wiśniewska) Kurkiewicz died on August 10, 1889

at the age of 80. One witness reporting her death was her 38 year old son Ignacy Kurkiewicz. Ignacy was the grandfather of Mike Liszewski and his sisters (my newfound 3rd cousins 1x removed.) The other witness was Walenty Lisikiewicz, age 40. Ewa’s parents were Błażej Wiśniewski and Agnieszka nee Szcześniaka. Ewa was the oldest child born to Błażej and Agnieszka. Her father worked as a potter and later as a gravedigger. Her mother died when she was 14 years old and her father was engaged to one woman and then married another woman when Ewa was about 15 years old. Ewa first married Wincenty Rachanski, a shoemaker, when she was 21 years old and they lived in Krynice. Wincenty and their son Felix died the following year. Ewa returned to Tomaszow and six years later married Jozef Kurkiewicz, a shoemaker. She had five children with Jozef (Paulina--my 2x great grandmother, Andrzej, Jakub, Franciszka, Ignatius) Ewa’s husband Jozef Kurkiewicz (my 3rd great grandfather) died 15 years before Ewa.

Franciszka (Rzeczyczki) Kurkiewicz Died July 16 1829 & her husband Marcin Kurkiewiciz died July 16, 1828

Franciszka (Rzeczycki) Kurkiewicz (my 5th great grandmother) died 16 July 1829 at 3:00 in the morning. She was 80 years old. One witness was Antoni Kurkiewicz (my 4th great grandfather), her 44 year old son who was a shoemaker. The other witness was Jan Bratkiewicz, a 32 year old farmer. Franciszka was 80 years old and a native of Tomaszów Lubelski. ***** Her husband Marcin Kurkiewicz (5x great grandfather) died exactly one year earlier on 16 July 1828, also at the age of 80. Jan Bratkiewicz, (Marcin’s son-in-law) a 31 year old furrier, and Antoni Kurkiewicz, (his son) a 42 year old shoemaker, reported the death. He was from Mościsk. Maybe someone from Poland can suggest which of these possibilities it could be? ***** -Mościska kolonia Dorohusk chełmski lubelskie 0102628 -cisk ***** -Mościska wieś Rudnik krasnostawski lubelskie 0897734 -cisk mościski ***** -Mościska wieś Sosnowica parczewski lubelskie 0108312 -cisk mościski ***** -Mościska wieś Kąkolewnica radzyński lubelskie 0013310 -cisk mościski ***** Franciszka and Marcin were "Lawnikow" jurors, of the town of Tomaszow. I have found only two children for them (so far.) Antoni Jozef ( my 4x great grandfather) who married Marianna Kiszczynska and had 12 children. The other one was Jozefa who married Jan Bratkiewicz and Jan Redzki/Recki.

Pauline (Skrobat) Raczkiewicz Died on July 3, 1990

Pauline Raczkiewicz (my grandmother) died on July 3, 1990 In Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was given the name Apolonia Skrobot at birth in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Wladyslaw (Walter) Skrobat and Anna nee Barszcz. The were both from the Moszczenica area of Poland with Walter coming to the US in the mid 1890s and Anna coming from Ropica Gorna in 1900. She was the oldest of 12 children, of which seven made it to adulthood. *****

Her husband Anthony passed away ten years earlier on October 31, 1980, at the age of 85. They had been married 60 years. ***** From her obituary: Pauline died on July 3, 1990, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the age of 86. Surviving were her sons Anthony (Cecilia) and Ronald (Pamela), daughter Shirley (Roy) Longwell, 9 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren, three sisters Mary Schossler, Jane (Bill) Adams (both of Oil City, PA) and Victoria Palczewski (Grand Rapids) and a brother (Adam Scrobat) as well as several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Lorraine and grandson, Robert. ***** She was a member of the Basilica of St. Adalbert, Polish National Association and Ladies Rosary Society. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at the Basilica of St. Adalberts, Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery and visitors were received at Arsulowicz Brothers Mortuary, West at 585 Stocking Ave.

Antoni Raczkiewicz Died July 1 1868

Both my 2x great grandfather Antoni Raczkiewicz and his wife, my 2x great grandmother Marianna nee Grabek were widowed and then remarried. This means that by the time he was 17 years old, my great grandfather Jan Raczkiewicz had lost both of his parents. ***** Antoni Raczkiewicz (my 2x great grandfather) died young (1 July 1868), a few months after his 26th birthday. I do not know the cause of death but there was an outbreak of cholera in Russia that year. The witnesses were Jan Skurcz, 27 and Andrzej Bonczko/Baczko?, 40, who were both farmers in Sabaudia. Antoni also was a farmer in Sabaudia. Antoni’s parents, Michal Raczkiewicz and Anna nee Dominik, were still alive and farming in Sabaudia. Antoni came from a family of eleven children, four of which died in childhood. ***** Antoni left behind his widowed wife, Marianna nee Grabek. They had two children, Jan and Marianna. Marianna died in infancy. Jan was four years old when his father died. (He later became my great grandfather, marrying Katarzyna Kaszucka.) ***** Antoni’s wife, Marianna nee Grabek remarried a year and a half after his death to Tomasz Kedra. Marianna and Tomasz had two children: Jozef and Katarzyna. Marianna (wife of Antoni first and Tomasz second) died when Tomasz’s children were eight and ten years old and Antoni’s son Jan was 17 years old. The father of Jozef and Katarzyna (Tomasz) remarried three months later to Anna nee Raczkiewicz (daughter of Jan Raczkiewicz and

Katarzyna nee Pisarczyk.) ***** Image credit: By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/72/5d/1b3f72dc9b4c0588ffd1388133b3.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0010490.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-31): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cfcdztbq CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36452978

Paulina Kurkiewicz born June 27, 1838

Paulina Kurkiewicz (my 2x great grandmother) was born June 27, 1838 at 8:00 in the evening. The witnesses were Jakób Palm , “ex traditional captain “, 50 and Tomasz Krotki, a writer in the Customs Office in Tomaszów ,58, both residing in Tomaszów. The godparents were Jakób Palm and Tekla Orzechowka. ***** Her parents were Józef Kurkiewicz and Ewa (nee Wiśniewska, previous married name Rachanska.) They are the couple that Mike Liszewski and his sisters Betty and Joan and I have in common. Paulina’s younger brother Ignatious is their great grandfather. This makes Mike and his sisters my third cousins 1 time removed. ***** Paulina was the first born of five children of Józef and Ewa. Ewa had been previously married to Wincenty Rachanski in the parish of Łabunie, Krynice, 16 kilometers north of Tomaszow Lubelski. Wincenty and their son Feliks died in 1831. When Feliks died at 9 months old -- his father predeceased him by one month. Wincenty was a likely casualty of the November Uprising. After their deaths, Ewa moved back to Tomaszow and lived with her father. She married Jozef around six years later, July 30, 1937 and Paulina was born around a year later. ***** Image credit: By F. D. Richards from Clinton, MI - Clematis 'Niobe' (Poland, 1970) 2020 photo, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93803072

Regina (Wojcik) Dominik Died June 15 1853

When Regina (Wojcik) Dominik (my 4x great grandmother) in 1853, several other people died in Majdan Gorny. She died June 15 was an 80 year old peasant. The witnesses that reported the death in Tomaszów two days later were Michał Raczkiewicz and Kazmierz Mazur. Michal was 54 years old and from Sabuadia. He was Regina’s son-in-law, married to Anna (nee Dominik.) The other witness Kazmierz was 60 years old and was from Majdan Górno, where Regina was from. ***** Regina was a widow because her husband Tomasz had died 22 years earlier. Her husband had been previously married to Helena Szyydolwska and they had children together. Tomasz and Rozalia had at least four children: Rozalia, Anna, Magdalena, Antoni. ***** One of their children died in childhood when in 1814, 12 year old Rozalia “died of earth,” ( Zabita od ziemi) – possibly a farming accident. Their second child Anna (my 3x great grandmother) married Michal Raczkiewicz and had 11 children. ***** Their third and fourth children died in their 40s. Magdalena married Bartlomiej. She died two years after her mother as a 45 year old widow working as a day laborer. Antoni died as a beggar, nine months after his mother at the young age of 40. During the time period that Regina and Magdalena and Antoni died there was cholera and the Great Famine but no cause of death is given in the records. ***** Another death in 1853 in Majdan Gorny was Jan Raczkiewicz (my 4x great grandfather) who died in January at age 75. He was Anna nee Dominik’s father-in-law. Katarzyna (Krawczyk) Grabek (my 3x great grandmother) also died there in March at age 50. ***** By MichalPL - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114597634

Paulina Raczkiewicz was born June 12, 1901