I was recently emailing with the Toledo Polish Genealogical Society. The person I was conversing with kindly sent me the marriage record for my grandmother’s, Anastasia Przybylski, first marriage to Stanley Lawecki.
I’ve transcribed it below:
Stanislaw Lawecki filius
Joannes et Mariae Szuchininska (sp?)
natus in Toledo, O. Sept. 21. 1886
et
Anastasia Przybylska
filia
Andreas et Franciscae Rochowiak
nata et bapt. in Toledo, O.
d. 23 February 1889
Testes: Antoni Lawecki, Joseph Rochowiak
Jos. Kuta
Sept. 20 – ’09
I cannot quite transcribe Stanley’s mother’s name so I may have it wrong.
Sadly, Stanley passed away a bit over a year from the marriage on October 9, 1910 of typhoid fever. Anastasia and Stanley had a child, Daniel. Daniel passed away on November 2, 1910 of cholera. I’m not sure I can comprehend how difficult it must have been for her to have lost a spouse and a child within weeks of each other.
April 3, 2012 at 7:15 am
In the 1940 US Census – one of your ancestors lives next door to one of mine:
http://interactive.ancestry.com/2442/m-t0627-03263-00092/?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fdbid%3d2442%26path%3d&ssrc=#imageId=M-T0627-03263-00093
Theodore Przybylski next to Stanley Sobieszczanski !!
April 3, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Holy moly! Thanks, Mike. I decided I’d ignore the 40 census for a bit, so much hoopla and people vying to get to it–my thinking, it would be there for a very long time to peruse at my leisure.
I do not know if I am related to this Przybylski. I haven’t been able to locate any of my great-grandfather’s siblings to note if they settled in NW Ohio yet. None of Andrew and Frances’ descendants were named Theodore as far as I know or can document. From what I’ve been told, Przybylski (like Mierzejewski) is a fairly common name–but who knows? I’ve been completely surprised in this journey all along the way.