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EANWhitson
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:46 pm Post subject: Reczko, Fronzcyk

I have been receiving emails and thought there is so much good information on them, I suppose I should post and see if anyone might have ideas for me. I am looking for Stanislaw Reczko and his wife, Bronislawa Fronczyk. What I have found is here in the states.

Stanislaw's arrival date is March 1910. His birth year is 1879 and he’s 31 years of age. The port of departure was Bremen, Germany and the ship’s name was “Main” and arrived in Baltimore, MD. The typed copy says the friend’s name was Josef Bernatois, but I saw on the original something that said wife, B…o Reczko. Final destination is Wilmerding, PA, which is where their daughter, Sophie was born.
Three years later, on Aug. 20, 1913, Bronislawa Reczko, is listed on the ship “Cassel.” The port of departure was Bremen, German and the port of arrival was Philadelphia, PA, on Aug. 20, 1913. She is 19 years old and lists her birthplace as Ley Murrke, Russia. (Microfilm Roll Number T840_118). She has arrived with a possible sister-in-law, Emilia Reczko who is 21. The town listed they are from is Furshe? Turshe? Lomas? Russia, where uncle? Josef Fronzk lives. Their “friend’s” name in America is Stanislaw Reczko, Bronislawa’s husband.
A WWI Registration card is filed on September 12, 1918, for Stanislaw Reczka of Cleveland, OH. It lists Stanley’s age as 39 and his birthdate as January 18, 1879.
There is a census report on the family that shows they lived in the Cleveland area. Sophie is recorded as being three years old and her sister, Irene, 5. This census was taken in 1920 and shows the family living in Cleveland Ward 15, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. Stanislaw Reczka is 40 and his wife, Brunislawa is 26. Both were born in Russia Poland. Stanislaw is listed as immigrating in 1909 and Brunislawa in 1912 Both are listed as aliens.

There is little information about the family after 1920. My guess is that they moved outside of Ohio or even back to Poland. I did find a Naturalization Petition for Stanley Reczko, however, for 1928 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Cleveland, 1707-1946. There is another document for Stanislaw Raczka in 1934. Perhaps the fulfilled papers/card? Either way, I cannot find anyone in the family after this. Family lore has it that Stanley died young, perhaps of drowning? Perhaps of an injury in the foundry he worked at? My grandmother told us stories of her living in Poland, so I am guessing that Stanley may have died here, the family went back to Poland. An aunt, who was born in Ohio came back in 1937, my grandmother (Sophy) who was born in PA, came back somewhere around 1940.

Any information would be very helpful!

Cheri Vanden Berg
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:26 pm Post subject:

Hi, I found a Bronisl Reczko in the Ohio Death Index at Family Search. Hopefully this link will take you to it:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VKK3-KPB She died 25 Jul 1982 in Parma, Ohio she was 89. There is a number for the death certificate. I haven't run across death information for Stanislaw. Family Search actually has scanned copies of death certificates from Ohio for a large number of years (maybe 1908 - 1953). Sometimes you have to play around with the spelling of the name though. If the name was hard to read, then the indexer might have spelled it wrong.

EANWhitson
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:38 am Post subject:

Yes, that is my Babcia. Since she lived with my grandmother for a time, then another aunt until her death, I have a bit more information on her. The question in the line is what happened in the 1920s until about the 1940s? They both immigrated here in the 1910s, had a couple of children, even bought a couple of homes (found that on the county recorder's website), but sold them in the early 20s and it seems they disappeared. At least until the family seems to return to the area around the 1940s.

But Stanislaw seems to be out of the picture. I'm assuming death, but haven't found a death certificate here in the states. I suppose I need to get onto Fold3 and see if that naturalization package is my Stanislaw.

I also have figured out that Stanislaw and Bronislawa married in Poland, but haven't a clue where, so that would be helpful as well.

I do know that when my grandmother came back to the US, she listed an address I found on the 1940 census. She is not listed there, but I assume this is family as the surname there is listed as Froncak.

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