John KACZMAREK

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1. +Francisca KACZMAREK

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[N11664] Re: parents of Francisca (Kaczmarek) Andrysiak
Source: jcrow39@hotmail.com

No, I'm not related to her, only trying to fulfill a Find A Grave photo request placed by Bev Przybylski for the gravestone of Francisca (Kaczmarek) Andrysiak. Her Find A Grave memorial was contributed by Dorothy Gregory. One or both of them may be related. However, here is a long, but possible answer to your question:

According to your transcriptions of St. Casimir Interment records (thank you!) Francesca Andrysiak, 35, d/o John Kaczmarek, died 2/26/1905, and was buried in Cedar Grove. The list of Cedar Grove Cemetery burials thru March 1989 doesn't include a listing for her. So I did do some research trying to identify where she might be buried if burials of her immediate family members could be located.

Her 1900 census record indicates that she immigrated in 1876, i.e., before she married Peter Andrysiak in 1890 and when she was only 14, so it is likely she came with her parents, John and ___ Kaczmarek (her marriage record not listing her mother's name).

A South Bend, IN, 1880 census record of a John & Mary Kaczmarek family includes a daughter Franciska of the possibly correct age. The parents are both listed in that census as b. Germany. Children: Franciska 11 b. Germany, Josephine 6 b. Indiana, and John 3 b. Indiana. The children's ages and birth places suggest this family arrived by 1873 or 1874.

A South Bend, IN 1900 census record of a John Kaczmarek indicates that he immigrated in 1873 and his household includes a son John 23 b. Indiana, and so appears to be the same family as the 1880 family. If so, father John is a widower, 54, b. Poland. Children Francisca and Josephine are both gone from the household. In addition to son John, other children, both born since 1880: Stanislawa 18 b. IN and Ignatz 15 b. IN. (Stanislawa may provide the link needed for the answer to your question.)

Turning to your Roman Catholic marriages index, like Franciska's, the marriage record of a John, s/o John, doesn't list his mother's name. However, a Josephine Kaczmarek (m. May 1900 so just before the June 1 census date) and a Stanislawa Kaczmarek (m. 1904) are listed with father's name, Joannes, and mother's name, Maria Wierzchucka.

Stanislawa Kaczmarek m. 1904 Joseph Pianowski, and in 1910, Joseph's f-i-l, John Kaczmarek 62 b. "Germany Pol", and his b-i-l, Ignatz Kaczmarek 21b IN, are listed in Joseph's and Stella's household.

So if the seeming connections are valid, Maria Wierzchucka, is the answer to your question.

I have not found where John & Mary Kaczmarek were buried. They don't appear to be listed in church interment records, WPA IN death index, or South Bend Times index, and John does not appear to be listed in the WPA Graves Project or in the SJCPL obit index.