{"id":15786,"date":"2012-03-02T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15786"},"modified":"2012-04-01T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:06:26","slug":"the-skowronski-family-in-the-1940-worcester-city-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15786","title":{"rendered":"The Skowronski Family in the 1940 Worcester City Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my Danko uncles married two Skowronski sisters .\u00a0 The Skowronski families were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory .\u00a0 There are (at least) three family groups listed .\u00a0 The first is Alexander and Frances Skowronski, parents of Benjamin S., Chester S., and Edward .\u00a0 The second is Paul and Mary Skowronski, parents of Charlotte, Edmund J., and Mary A .\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if or how the\u00c2\u00a0other Skowronskis in the directory fit into my family history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Skowronski-1940-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15787\" title=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Skowronski Family\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Skowronski-1940-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Worcester City Directory Entry for the Skowronski Family\" width=\"540\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Skowronski-1940-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Skowronski-1940-Crop-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DWO-Skowronski-1940-Crop-1024x498.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>1940\u00c2\u00a0Worcester City Directory Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0Skowronski Family<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1940, p. 863, Skowronski Families; digital image, Ancestry.com (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 02 March 2012); citing Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory Vol. 1940 XCVII, Boston MA: R. L. Polk &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940\u00c2\u00a0Worcester City Directory Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DWO-Skowronski-1940.pdf\">Skowronski Family<\/a> .\u00a0 The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex (Alexander) Skowronski, husband of Frances, was employed as a moulder and was head of household at 3 Marion Ave<\/li>\n<li>Benj (Benjamin) S. Skowronski, husband of Mary B., worked at DeLuxe Radio &amp; Electrical Appliance Co.;\u00c2\u00a0 no address is given<\/li>\n<li>Chester S. Skowronski was head of household at 26 Lodi<\/li>\n<li>Edwd (Edward), husband of Bronis (Bronislawa) worked as a carpenter and was head of household at 10 Diamond St<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Skowronski, husband of Mary, worked as a moulder and was head of household at 183 Wash (Washington St)<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte M. Skowronsky worked as a tie worker and resided at 183 Wash (Washington St)<\/li>\n<li>Edmund J. Skowronski, husband of Blanch M.) worked as a laborer and was head of household at 21 Lafayette St<\/li>\n<li>Mary A. Skowronsky worked as a tie worker and resided at 183 Wash (Washington St)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using <a title=\"Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemorse.org\/\">Steve Morse&#8217;s One-Step Webpages<\/a>, I learned that the\u00c2\u00a0Skrowronski family&#8217;s residences in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, USA was located in the following enumeration districts in the 1940 United States Federal Census:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>10 Diamond St:\u00a0 23-121<\/li>\n<li>21 Lafayette St:\u00a0 23-132<\/li>\n<li>26 Lodi St:\u00a0 23-108<\/li>\n<li>3 Marion Ave:\u00a0 23-102A<\/li>\n<li>183 Washington St:\u00a0 23-107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my Danko uncles married two Skowronski sisters .\u00a0 The Skowronski families were listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory .\u00a0 There are (at least) three family groups listed .\u00a0 The first is Alexander &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15786\">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":[251],"class_list":["post-15786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skowronski","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-46C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786","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=15786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15789,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions\/15789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}