{"id":341,"date":"2006-07-10T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T06:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/10\/the-birth-and-death-of-aunt-bronislawa\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:59:07","slug":"the-birth-and-death-of-aunt-bronislawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/341","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Death of Aunt Bronis\u0142awa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Aunt Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko died when she was one year old and was buried with two other infants in an unmarked grave in Notre Dame Cemetery in Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0 In order to erect on monument on the grave, the cemetery requires that the names of all three infants be included on the monument .\u00a0 The cemetery provided the following\u00c2\u00a0information on the three infants:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Notre Dame Cemetery No. 01 &#8211; Owner: Owner, unknown<br \/>\nLot &#8211; Sec-3 Lot-1464 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\/>\nAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAU<br \/>\nSpace Deceased\/Reserved\u00c2\u00a0 Burial Date\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Age\u00c2\u00a0 Container<br \/>\n1A\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Kurpiel, John\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 12\/21\/1912\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 1Month<br \/>\n1B\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Danka, Bronislawa\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 01\/15\/1913\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a01<br \/>\n1C\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Stonia, Franciszek\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 08\/30\/1914\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 8Months<\/p>\n<p>AAAEnd of ListAAA\u00c2\u00a0 Perpetual Care Unpaid \u00e2\u20ac\u201d No Activity Allowed Until Full Payment<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the cemetery had misspelled my\u00c2\u00a0aunt&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0surname and did not have the dates of birth or death for any of the three infants, I set out to find the birth and death records for the children .\u00a0 In the blog entry <a title=\"Aunt Bronislawa Has Been Misplaced\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/54\" target=\"_self\">Aunt Bronislawa Has Been Misplaced<\/a>, I described my efforts to find the vital records for the trio.<\/p>\n<p>During my recent trip to the Massachusetts Archives, I found the records for all three children .\u00a0 The birth record of <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRB-Danko-Bronislawa-1912.pdf\">Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko<\/a> was recorded in a ledger in January 1913, although she had been born almost a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Birth Bronislawa Danko\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Danko-stitched.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRB-Danko-Bronislawa-1912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10674\" title=\"The Birth Record of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko - 1912\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRB-Danko-Bronislawa-1912.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth Record of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko - 1912\" width=\"541\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Birth Record of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko &#8211; 1912<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the image above, I\u00c2\u00a0cropped the ledger just under the entry for Bronis\u0142awa, so it appears that she is the last entry on the page, but the original image included quite a few more entries below her name.<\/p>\n<p>The entry states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronislawa Danko was listed as entry number 961 in Massachusetts Births, volume 608, page 486<\/li>\n<li>She was a female child, born in the City of Worcester, Massachusetts on January 3, 1912<\/li>\n<li>Her father was Mike Danko and her mother was Mary Ginsky who resided in Worcester<\/li>\n<li>Her father was a laborer<\/li>\n<li>Both her parents were born in Austria<\/li>\n<li>Her birth was registered in the City of Worcester in January 1913<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that her mother&#8217;s maiden name was actually Dziurzy\u0144ska, not Ginsky .\u00a0 This error was likely due to difficulties of hearing and spelling the polish surname or to transcription errors .\u00a0 The entry were made a year after the event and the family was probably not present at the time the birth was recorded in the ledger.<\/p>\n<p>The death record of <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRD-Danko-Bronislawa-1913.pdf\">Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was recorded on a standard form which was completed at the time of death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRD-Bronislawa-Danko-1913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10678\" title=\"The Death Record of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko - 1913\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/VRD-Bronislawa-Danko-1913.jpg\" alt=\"The Death Record of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko - 1913\" width=\"505\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Death Record\u00c2\u00a0of Bronis\u0142awa Da\u0144ko &#8211; 1913<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Death Record states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronislawa Danko&#8217;s death was recorded in Massachusetts Deaths volume 107, number 290<\/li>\n<li>She was a single, white female, born in Worcester on January 2, 1912 and was 1 year, 11 days old at the\u00c2\u00a0time of death<\/li>\n<li>Her father was Michal Danko who was born in Austria<\/li>\n<li>Her mother was named Mary and was born in Austria<\/li>\n<li>P. H. Nichol, M.D. attended her from January 7, 1913 until January 13, 1913<\/li>\n<li>She died at 2:30 PM on January 13, 1913 at the family home at 3 Moran Court in Worcester after suffering for 6 days with broncho pneumonia<\/li>\n<li>Michal Danko of Worcester was the informant<\/li>\n<li>The statement of death by P. H. Nichol, M.D. was made on January 14, 1913<\/li>\n<li>She was buried in Worcester on January 15, 1913 by the undertaker Lucian Karolkewicz of Worcester<\/li>\n<li>The Death Certificate was filed by the registrar on January 20, 1913<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the date of birth on the birth record is January 3, 1912, while that on the death certificate is January 2, 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow:\u00a0 The birth and death of John Kurpiel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. 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The cemetery provided the following information on the three infants: <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/341\">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":[30,35],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danko","category-dziurzynski","tag-worcester"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-5v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20252,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/20252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}