Would like to talk to others with Dmuchowski or Dmuchowska in their list of ancestors
My grandmother, Tekla Dmuchowska, came to the United States in 1913 from either Płaska (pronounced Pwaska) or Olszanka Poland. She was born in Płaska in September 1896 to Kazimiera Dmuchowska, a single woman whose parents were Michał and Franciszka (Wisniewska) Dmuchowski. Franciszka's parents were Paweł Wiśniewski and Marianna Moszyńska. Interestingly enough, the baptism record for my grandmother says she was brought to the church to be baptised by "Marianna Moszczynska (the midwife from Plaska, 70 years old)." I often wonder it this Marianna is my g-g-g grandmother, the mother Franciszka.
Franciszka was the second wife of Michał (his first being Rosalia Turkowska). Franciszka and Michał had at least four known children: Jan (b. 1875), Kazimiera (b. 1876), Marianna (b. 1879) and Anna (b. 1884). There are likely others, but these are the four we know about. Jan and Anna are known to have traveled to the U.S. and Jan (known as John and Joseph in the U.S.) was killed in Sept. 1911 when a dam burst in Austin, Pennsylvania.
Jan's widow then began translating the spelling of the name to Dumuhosky.
Plaska was a small farming community at that time. My grandmother may have lived there or perhaps with her mother or other family in Olszanka before she immigrated, meeting her aunt, Anna Dmuchowska Lewandowski in Austin, Pennsylvania. By 1914 she was living in Detroit, Michigan, where she changed her name to Jennie Thomas and eventually to Jennie Carpenter when she married my grandfather.
Any Dmuchowski's out there who know their family came from the far northeast of Poland? When my grandmother immigrated the area was part of Russia.
Would love to know what happened to my g-grandmother, Kazimiera Dmuchowska.
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Re: Would like to talk to others with Dmuchowski or Dmuchowska in their list of ancestors
Hi Tanis,
Do you know what parts of Poland Stephanus or Alexandra were born? It is possible that Stanley was born in what at the time was Galicia, Austria but is now part of the Ukraine. That was the case for my paternal great-grandfather (not Dmuchowski). The Lewandowski's in my tree are from the marriage of Anna Dmuchowski to Alexander Lewandowski. The Wallaces are my mother's family, the Irish side of my genealogy, but my grandfather was really a Bennett who was adopted by the Wallace family. Thanks for getting in touch about your Dmuchowski connections. As far as I am aware, though, any direct family of my grandmother's were in Austin, Pennsylvania and then Detroit, Michigan.
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