{"id":411,"date":"2006-07-23T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/23\/the-declaration-of-intention-of-stanislaw-markiewicz\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T21:59:23","slug":"the-declaration-of-intention-of-stanislaw-markiewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/411","title":{"rendered":"The Declaration of Intention of Stanislaw Markiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislaw Markiewicz filed a Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States on May 11, 1936 .\u00a0 This was the first step to becoming a citizen .\u00a0 Under the laws in effect at that time, Stanislaw would have to wait at least three and no more than seven more years before he could file a Petition for Naturalization.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Declaration of Stanislaw Markiewicz - Front\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Declaration---S-Markiewicz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image409\" style=\"width: 486px; height: 746px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Declaration---S-Markiewicz.jpg\" alt=\"Declaration of Stanislaw Markiewicz - Front\" width=\"486\" height=\"746\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The Declaration of Intention of Stanislaw Markiewicz &#8211; Front<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Stanislaw Markiewicz' Declaration of Intention - Back\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Declaration-S-Markiewicz-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image410\" style=\"width: 503px; height: 748px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Declaration-S-Markiewicz-R.jpg\" alt=\"Stanislaw Markiewicz' Declaration of Intention - Back\" width=\"503\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The Declaration of Intention of Stanislaw Markiewicz &#8211; Back<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/IMD-Markiewicz-Stanislaw-1936-1.pdf\">Declaration of Intention for Stanislaw Markiewicz &#8211; 1936<\/a> .\u00a0 The Declaration States:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanislaw Markiewicz filed his Declaration of Intention No. 46155 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Worcester in the Superior Court of Massachusetts at Worcester, Mass.<\/li>\n<li>Stanislaw resided at 320 Millbury St., Worcester, Worcester Co., Mass.<\/li>\n<li>His occupation was Moulder<\/li>\n<li>He was 45 years old, a white male, of medium complexion, blue eyes, dark brown-grey hair, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 192 pounds, with a scar on his left index finger<\/li>\n<li>His race and nationality were Polish;\u00c2\u00a0 he was born in Lublin, Poland on April 20, 1891<\/li>\n<li>He was married to Antonina Lejwoda on Feb. 2, 1913 in South Framingham, Mass.<\/li>\n<li>Antonina was born in Lublin, Poland on April 23, 1891, entered the United States at New York, N.Y. on Oct. 20, 1912<\/li>\n<li>Stanislaw had seven children:\u00a0 Stefan born Jan. 22, 1914, Bronislawa born Oct. [?], 1915 (Oct. 7, 1915), Waclaw born Aug. 13, 1917, Edwart born Dec. 17, 1919, Helena born Mar. 15, 1922, [?]iena (Janiena) born June 4, 1925, and Ryszard born Feb. 24, 1928, all born and living at the time in [?]rcester, Mass.<\/li>\n<li>He had previously made\u00c2\u00a0a declaration of intention Number 24764 on Dec. 16, 1921 in the Superior Court of Worcester, Mass.<\/li>\n<li>His last foreign residence was Braciawicze (Braciejowice), Poland<\/li>\n<li>He immigrated to the United States from Antwerp, Belgium at New York, N.Y. under the name Stanislaw Markiewicz on May 29, 1912 on the SS Zeeland<\/li>\n<li>Stanislaw signed the declaration in Worcester, Mass. on May 11, 1936<\/li>\n<li>The Declaration of Intention cross-references Stanislaw&#8217;s Certificate of Arrival No. 1-177793<\/li>\n<li>The reverse of the declaration includes a stamp indicating that the U.S. Immigration &amp; Naturalization Service on Nov 9, 1938<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stanislaw gave all of his children Polish first names .\u00a0 Those names in English are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stefan = Stephen<\/li>\n<li>Bronislawa = Bernice<\/li>\n<li>Waclaw = Walter<\/li>\n<li>Edwart (apparently misspelled -\u00c2\u00a0should be Edward)\u00c2\u00a0= Edward<\/li>\n<li>Helena = Helen<\/li>\n<li>Janiena = Jane<\/li>\n<li>Ryszard = Richard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Stanislaw&#8217;s Petition for Naturalization<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislaw Markiewicz filed a Declaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States on May 11, 1936 .\u00a0 This was the first step to becoming a citizen .\u00a0 Under the laws in effect at that time, Stanislaw would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/411\">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":[92],"tags":[197,214,251],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markiewicz","tag-immigration","tag-naturalization","tag-worcester-massachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19085,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/19085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}