Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:26 pm
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| Cheri Vanden Berg wrote: |
| Here is the marriage record of Catharina Zajac/Zyjac and Steve Simsak/Shimshock/Szymusiak: http://tinyurl.com/kog7gh8 It looks like her father's name is Jacenty. Family search has her mother's name indexed as Mazy. Maybe it's Mary, maybe it was abbreviated, I'm not sure. If you were able to see the original church record, maybe it would have Marja and Katarzyna's mother's maiden name. The marriage license, or record, says they were married at a Catholic Church in Footdale, the priest's name is on the record as well. I'm attaching part of the record, the rest can be seen at the link to Family Search. |
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 6:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 4:14 pm
Post subject: Re: Pieniążkowice, Nowy Targ - Zajac family - Giewont, Shims
| mturnage11 wrote: |
| My GGrandmother's family is from Pieniazkowice in Nowy Targ. Anyone have connections to or info about Zajacs in this area?
Oldest child is a brother, name unknown, Marja (Mary) b May 1891, and younger sister, Katarzyna b 1893. Sometime after the birth of Katarzyna, their mother passed and Mary took over as woman of the house at a young age. Their father remarried a few years later and a few years after that Father and stepfather immigrated to the US. A few years later money was sent to Poland for the brother to immigrate to the US, but sadly he had passed from an illness. Mary and Catherine used the money for their passage to the US as she says it was 1/2 price for girls to travel. Zajac is a fairly common name so I have had difficulty finding their passage or their father's to the US on the Ellis Island database. When they arrived in the US instead of finally being reunited with their family, the girls were sent to cook and keep house for an American family. I estimate their ages to be 13 and 11 at this time. Mary married Wojciech (Albert) Giewont and Catherine married Steven Shimshock. Mary and Albert with 9 children went to Albert's home town of Dzianisz for an extended visit in Oct of 1924. Albert wanted to remain in Poland, but Mary wanted to return so they came back to Republic, PA to Catherine's house in Feb of 1925. This passage was located on ancestry.com and gives Mary's hometown as Pieniazkowice. Any suggestions on obtaining additional information on this family? I would love to find out the names of her parents. They lived in a small house and raised sheep. The house was partitioned to allow shelter for the sheep or connected to the barn area. |
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