Here’s the connection as we know it today:
Tomasz Grochowski marrries Marianna Garbacik b. abt. 1830- 1840.
They have a daughter, Theresa Grochowski b. abt. 1857 -1862 (different records list different birth dates). in Glinik Polski.
Teresa marries Marcin Garbacik son of Antoni and Sophia Faber. We have no ther information about Marcin.
Teresa marries next Bartolomiej Biedron born in Glinik Polski. His parents were Walentego Biedron and Anny Lawera born about 1840. We have no other information about Bartolomiej.
Josephine Garbaczyk, daughter of Marcin Garbacik (first husband of Teresa) and Teresa Grohowski, marries Big Joe Moraniec in Detroit. She lay dying of pneumonia and tells Teresa Biedron — her half sis via Teresa Grochowski and secong husband, Bartolomiej Biedron — to marry Big Joe when she dies, which she does, two months after Josephine’s death.
After Big Joe Moraniec married Teresa Biedron, another Mary Moraniec, aged 17, appeared on the census records. It took the well-trained eye of cousin Ann K., the delightful history professor, to discern that this Mary was not, in fact, the Aunt Mary I had grown up hearing about. Aunt Mary was grown, married, and out of the house at the time of the February,1920 census. She was the same age as Joe’s son, Alex.
This Mary had arrived from Poland (though the 1920 census says she was born in Michigan) after Joe married Teresa. When she marries Michael Guziec from Dunkirk NY in in Detroit, (Side note: Michael had taken a train to Detroit to find work. He lived near the Moraniecs and met Mary when she was working in one of Big Joe’s shops, probably the restaurant) Mary lists her father’s name as Joseph and her mother as Teresa. Now, we know that Teresa Biedron had a relationshop with Jakub Krol in Glinik Polski and we believe he is the father of our second Mary Moraniec. Thanks to Kristine Doster for figuing out the dna line for this relationship.
At any rate, I was very surprised to learn of Big Joe’s association with the Guziecs of Dunkirk NY, a town near to my own. Even to the point of seeing photographs of him and Teresa in Dunkirk in the 1930s! This frankly, blew my mind. So close, and yet so far! Cousin Evelyn Guziec Kudale is a sweet soul, one I have enjoyed immensely. That anyone knew my Big Joe was mind boggling.
Evelyn told me how, after Mary married Michael Guziec, she moved from Detroit to Dunkirk, which was pretty much a cow town back in the 1920s. They lived on a farm in Dunkirk’s First ward. Mary had understood that she was moving with Michael to NY City, which would be exciting, but not so unusual since she was used to the big city of Detroit. Instead, she found herself in the midst of corn and dairy farms, orchards and vineyards!
What a shock she must have experienced. Years later, though, Mary would laugh as she recounted her adventures to her children. As so many strong women before and after her, have done, Mary adapted to her new way of life.
We have not found Mary’s birth record. Nor have we located her mother Teresa’s birth. Iwona Dakiniewicz gave us this information:
BARTLOMIEJ BIEDRON son of Walenty and Anna Lawera and TERESA GROCHOWSKA daughter of Tomasz and Marianna Garbacik have a son
J a n born 27 Oct 1885 no more information about this family in Glinik records.
Adress for Glinik Polski Glinik Polski – …. ( house number) 38-204 Tarnowiec woj. Podkarpackie Poland _________________________________________ Glinik Polski b m d 1890-1896 are in Sanok Archive : Archiwum Panstwowe w Sanoku ul. Sadowa 32 38-500 Sanok email contact direct on their website : <http://www.rzeszow.ap.gov.pl/sanok.php>
Perhaps more information could be gleaned from the Sanok archives?!
BUT we do know from DNA that Evelyn is a half second cousin once removed to my brother, Greg and sister, Sue. which supports our assumptions about the relationships.
