{"id":2032,"date":"2007-12-11T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/11\/the-niedzialkowskis-in-the-1953-worcester-directory\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T07:01:58","slug":"the-niedzialkowskis-in-the-1953-worcester-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2032","title":{"rendered":"The Niedzialkowskis in the 1953 Worcester Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953, my grandparents were listed in the Worcester city directory, but none of their children were listed.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather&#8217;s cousins, Joseph Niedzialkoski and Ralph Niedzialkoski were also listed<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Worcester Directory 1953 Entry for Kostanty, Joseph, and Ralph Niedzialkowski\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO-1953-Niedzialkowski-Kostanty-C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2033\" style=\"height: 89px\" height=\"89\" alt=\"Worcester Directory 1953 Entry for Kostanty, Joseph, and Ralph Niedzialkowski\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO-1953-Niedzialkowski-Kostanty-C.jpg\" width=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Worcester Directory 1953 Entry for Kostanty, Joseph, and Ralph Niedzialkowski<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Massachusetts City Directories, Worcester 1953, page 857, Kostanty Niedzialkowski; digital image, Ancestry.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ancestry.com<\/a> : accessed 07 December 2007); citing Polk&#8217;s Worcester (Worcester County, Mass.) City Directory Vol. 1953 CX. 1953. Boston, MA: R.L. Polk &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a <a id=\"p2034\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/DWO%201953%20Niedzialkowski%20Kostanty.pdf\">PDF<\/a> copy of the Worcester Directory 1953 Entry for Kostanty, Joseph, and Ralph Niedzialkowski. The records state the following:<\/p>\n<p>Konstanty Niedzialkowski was a die setter at Worcester Pressed Steel Co. and resided at 40 Barnes av.;<br \/>\nhis wife Helen also resided at 40 Barnes av.;<br \/>\nKonstanty&#8217;s cousin Joseph was a sheet metal worker for Norton Co. who resided at 15 Sterling;<br \/>\nKonstanty&#8217;s cousin Ralph was a polisher who also resided at 15 Sterling; and<br \/>\nRalph&#8217;s wife Jane also resided at 15 Sterling.<\/p>\n<p>In my grandfather&#8217;s entry, the surname is misspelled as Nieczialkowski. My grandfather&#8217;s first name is spelled Konstanty although he usually spelled his name Kostanty.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Niedzialkoski&#8217;s sons Joseph and Ralph (my grandfather&#8217;s cousins) are also listed in the 1953 directory. The two were living together in the same house in Worcester.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1953, my grandparents were listed in the Worcester city directory, but none of their children were listed. My grandfather&#8217;s cousins, Joseph Niedzialkoski and Ralph Niedzialkoski were also listed Worcester Directory 1953 Entry for Kostanty, Joseph, and Ralph Niedzialkowski SOURCE: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2032\">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":[27,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","category-niedzialkowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-wM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}