{"id":1126,"date":"2007-03-03T23:30:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/03\/the-birth-of-francis-skowronski\/"},"modified":"2015-06-21T23:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T06:00:46","slug":"the-birth-of-francis-skowronski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1126","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Francis Skowronski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0seventh child of Alexander Skowronski and Frances Dymek was named Francis .\u00a0 He was born in\u00c2\u00a0Worcester, Worcester\u00c2\u00a0County, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His birth is recorded on\u00c2\u00a0page 102\u00c2\u00a0of the Birth Register, a copy of which I obtained from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/eohhs\/gov\/departments\/dph\/programs\/admin\/dmoa\/vitals\/\">Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"The Birth Record for Francis Skowronski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Skowronski-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1125\" style=\"width: 460px; height: 417px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Skowronski-Francis.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth Record for Francis Skowronski\" width=\"460\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The Birth Record for Francis Skowronski<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>SOURCE: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts .\u00a0Return of a Birth .\u00a0City of Worcester, 1919 .\u00a0Francis Skowronski. Volume Unknown, Page 102, Registered Number 3930. Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Click on the link for a <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/VRB-Skowronski-Francis-1919.pdf\">PDF Copy<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of the Birth Record for Francis Skowronski .\u00a0 The record states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Francis Skowrouski was a male child born alive at 16 Dorchester Street, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts on 26 Oct 1919<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His father was Alexander Skowrouski, a 32 year-old, white laborer born in Poland and residing at 16 Dorchester Street, Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">His mother was Frances Dymek, a 32 year-old, white\u00c2\u00a0housewife born in Poland and residing at 16 Dorchester Street, Worcester<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">S. C. Mieczkowksi, M.D. of 8 Richland Street, Worcester personally attended the birth<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">The Return of a Birth was received at the office of the city clerk on 27 Oct 1919 as attested by W. Henry Towne, Registrar<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Note that the surname of Francis and his father is spelled as Skowrouski, not Skowronski .\u00a0 The mother&#8217;s name is correctly spelled as Dymek.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Skowronskis lived at 16 Dorchester Street at this time, just a block from the address of the physician who attended the birth .\u00a0 Both addresses were close to the addresses of many other families whose children would later marry the Skowronski children.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The area where the Skowronskis lived was the Polish neighborhood on the east side of Worcester, known as &#8220;The Island&#8221; .\u00a0 St. Mary&#8217;s Church, the Polish parish now known as Our Lady of Cz\u0119stochowa Church, was just about a block away from the Skowronskis&#8217; residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00c2\u00a0seventh child of Alexander Skowronski and Frances Dymek was named Francis .\u00a0 He was born in\u00c2\u00a0Worcester, Worcester\u00c2\u00a0County, Massachusetts .\u00a0 His birth is recorded on\u00c2\u00a0page 102\u00c2\u00a0of the Birth Register, a copy of which I obtained from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/1126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[283,250],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skowronski","tag-massachusetts","tag-worcester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18392,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}