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This page contains the data I collected about the Stanisław PIECZONKA family in response to an e-mail I received from brothers Alan and Chuck.  After a few days' research, I connected Alan and Chuck to someone in my family file.  Alan and Chuck are my half 4th cousins once removed.  I will document that connect at a later time.   BACK to my Miscellaneous Research page.

22 December 2007 -- e-mail from Alan and Chuck

I visited your website regarding births/deaths in  Leki Dolne.  My brother and I are tracing our roots, and we believe that our Grandfather, Stanislaw Pieczonka was born August 3, 1878 in Leki Dolne.  However, I do not find his name on the Leki Dolne or Leki Gorne birth lists.  In addition, he had a sister, Anna Pieczonka, who was born April 15, 1880, supposedly in the same area....

Marge's Note:  I have a website with a partial transcription of the church records for the Parish of Łęki Górne / Leki Gorne.  This is the site that Alan and Chuck are referring to.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Epolishrecords/leki.htm

Not long after receiving this e-mail, I visited my local Mormon Family History Center (FHC), where I have the microfilmed records of the parish church in Łęki Górne, Poland.  I checked these microfilms looking for a birth/baptism record for Stanislaus and his sister Anna PIECZONKA.  I was unable to find records matching the dates given by Alan and Chuck.  I wrote back and asked for additional information about their grandfather that might help me locate his birth record.

They responded saying that their grandmother was a daughter of Josef CYCON.  They also noted that their grandfather had a half sister named Marya KORTZ.  Having the maiden name of Alan and Chuck's grandmother, I checked a few of the databases on the Polish Genealogical Society of America's (PGSA) website at http://pgsa.org.  My search of the marriage index for Polish Parishes in Chicago revealed the following:

Marriage Index for Polish Parishes in Chicago through 1915: Results

Name	Spouse	Date of Marriage	Parish	Volume	Page	Film	Item
Pieczonka, Stanley	Cycon, Maria	11-25-1907	St. John Cantius Church	3	121	1704114	6

In addition to the microfilms of the Łęki parish I also have the microfilms for the St. John Cantius Church in Chicago from which this index was created.  On my next visit to the FHC I looked up the marriage record for Stanley PIECZONKA and Maria CYCON with the hope of finding their parents' names on the document.  Stanisław was a son of Andrzej PIECZONKA and Katarzyna nee URYASZ, born in Łęki, Galicia.  Maryanna was a daughter of Jozef CYCOŃ and Anna SZMYT, born in Stara Wieś, Galicia.


Prior to finding the marriage record of Stanisław and Maryanna, I checked other online resources to piece together additional information from U.S. sources.  Ultimately I found Stanislaus and Maria in the 1910 and 1920 U.S. censuses for Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.  Another database on the PGSA site named two daughters baptized at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago.  I  located a World War I draft registration for a Stanley PIECZONKA whose address was the same as that of the Stanley enumerated in the 1920 census.  The draft registration gave Stanley's date of birth as March 19, 1877 -- the 19 had a question mark after it.



When I found Stanley in the 1930 census, his wife was named Veronica.  Alan and Chuck indicated that their grandmother Maria CYCON PIECZONKA died during the birth of her son Stanley.  At the time of the 1930 census, Stanley was age 3 8/12.  The census was taken in April of 1930, therefore we can calculate that Stanley was born about August 1926.  The PGSA death notice index for the Polish newspaper Dziennik Chicagoski had an entry for Maryanna PIECZONKA who died 14 Aug 1926.

On the 1910 and 1920 censuses Stanislaus indicated that he had immigrated in 1902; the 1930 census said he immigrated in 1903.  I searched the immigration records at Ancestry.com for that timeframe and found a record for a Stanisl. PIECZONKA, age 25, who came though the port of Baltimore on 24 Sept 1902 on the ship Neckar.  His last residence was Leki, he was going to Chicago to be with his brother Tomasz PIECZONKA.  I am not sure yet if this is the right  Stanislaus, however some of the details match other information we have.

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The first e-mail from Alan and Chuck also named a sister of their grandfather:  Anna PIECZONKA, born April 15, 1880.  I did not find an Anna PIECZONKA in the Leki records for this date.  I asked Alan and Chuck if Anna had immigrated and if so, had she married.  Anna did immigrate and was married four times.  Her first husband was Jozef STANEK.  According the to the marriage index at pgsa.org, they were married 7 September 1903.

Marriage Index for Polish Parishes in Chicago through 1915: Results

Name	Spouse	Date of Marriage	Parish	Volume	Page	Film	Item
Stanek, Joseph	Pieczonka, Anna	9-7-1903	St. Stanislaus Kostka Church	28	228	1578070	5

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One of the messages I received from Alan and Chuck mentioned their grandfather had a half-sister named Marya KORTZ.  In the 1920 census, at the same address as Stanislaus and Mary, in another flat were:

I searched the marriage index at the PGSA site and found the following entry:

I was not able to locate Rudolf and Maria in the 1930 U.S. census for Illinois, so I expanded my search.  I found them enumerated in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.

I found death dates for Maria and Rudolph in the PGSA death index and the Illinois death index respectively.

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Having found the names of Stanislaus' parents on his marriage record and a birth date noted on his WW I draft registration, I went back to the Łęki Parish microfilmed records.  This time I located an entry for Stanislaus in the birth/baptism records.  In addition to Stanislaus' parents his grandparents were also named.



I found records of five other children born to Andreas PIECZONKA and Catharina nee URYASZ.

Andreas and Catharina were married on the Łęki parish on 18 November 1869
I found no other children born to Andreas and Catharina.  Since Stanislaus was supposed to have had a half-sister, I looked through the marriage records and found a marriage record for the widowed Catharina.


The entry in the PGSA Marriage index for Rudolph and Maria showed her maiden name as TARCZAN; her death notice gave her maiden name as TARCZON.

After entering the records for Stanislaus and his family into my genealogy file, I made a few connections to other folks in the file.  This is how his pedigree chart looks:

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