I notice that this family attended several different churches. I had at first assumed they were only going to St. Stanislaus Kostka but it seems not. I see them at St. Salomea and at Holy Trinity. From the birth register, it shows that with Teodor in 1904 they were living on Cleaver Street but the year before with Antoni's birth they were on Dickson Street. Have you tried looking at Chicago city directories to follow them over time and see if you can spot the transition year from Zurawicz to Fisher?
A bit more about St. Stanislaus Kostka records. You see the list of them here:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:411138
And you will notice that some years have been indexed, and other years have not. With the orphan idea in mind, I decided to take a look at the non-indexed years for the death records, specifically the 1895-1902 group of deaths and then in the 1874-1895 group of death records I looked at years from 1892 onward since that is when the Cieslak and Zurawicz families arrived. I found nothing for your family. There was a Cieslak family, father's name Andrzej and mother's name Honorata, who had some children who died (Sylwester in 1895 and Weronika in 1900). A Cecylja Cieslak died, age 11, daughter of Walenty Cieslak and Konstancja Pawlak. There is no reason to think they are connected to you. However, now that we know not all years of the church books were indexed, you may want to see if the same was true for the other churches that the Cieslak family may have attended, to try to substantiate the orphan hypothesis.
Sophia
P.S. Having now had sufficient coffee, I should clarify what I said earlier. It is not that the years 1874-1895 and 1895-1902 are not indexed for St. Stan's, but to see the indices you have to open the microfilms and look at them there. Death records for subsequent years 1902-1911 and 1911-1915 were indexed by Family Search, so you can use the Family Search search function to find people in those years. You cannot do that for the 1874-1895 and 1895-1902 records.
Hi again,
I want to add that I found the section on the cause of death on Anthony Fisher's death certificate to be far more detailed than usual. It took me a little while to decipher it. All quite interesting.
I am not sure what to make of Warsaw being given as the place of birth. Often, for Polish immigrants, this part of the death certificate just says Poland and does not give a town or city.
Sophia
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