Ancestors

Franciszka Krawczyk

Franciszka Krawczyk was born on 2 April 1835 at Panki, a village near Klobuck on the Russian side of the partitioned country, and was christened three days later at Truskolasy, the parish that held Panki until 1919. Her father Walenty was a farmer of twenty three, her mother Maryanna Jelonek was twenty, and none of the men who stood in the presbytery that morning could sign their names.

The marriage register at Schomberg, in Prussian Upper Silesia, says she had been living in that parish sixteen years when she married there in 1862, so she crossed the border about 1846, aged eleven. Her husband Daniel Krzuk was a Schlepper on the Beuthen town pits, one of the men who hauled the coal underground.

Thirty years later the family had crossed back the other way, to Sielce in the Russian empire, where three of her daughters were raising children within a mile of each other. She died there at three in the afternoon on 30 March 1893, and one of the two miners who reported it was Tomasz Grobarz, her daughter Teresa's husband. Neither the Prussian clerk in 1862 nor the Russian one in 1893 recorded her father's given name: the first wrote a bare initial, the second that the parents' given names were not known. The Truskolasy register names him at her christening as Walenty.

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Cite: Heirology, "Franciszka Krawczyk (1835-1893)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/franciszka-krawczyk-1835-1893-cef37a.