This is my great aunt by marriage on my father’s mother’s side. I received inquiries about her from someone doing research and have more information now, or at least indirect information. My Dad, Jerome W. Stuczynski, was in the drum corps for the 4th Ward Fire Department — “the Merry Men” — and its leader [...]
I recently had a talk with my Dad and the discussion went to business owners in the family. It seems that apart from my grandfather, who was busy as the head of his parents household when his father died, most of them had one business or another over the years.
This isn’t real clear, but this is Marian Stuczynski and her son Frank (my Grandfather)
According to my father, my grandmother’s family was from Poznan, Poland. The daughter of Walter and Antoinina (Annette, maiden name Lentz), my grandmother, Sophia (Sophie) Szopinski had five siblings – Stanley, Joe, Valentine, Helen, and Veronica. Walter Sopinski worked for the Dunkirk, NY parks department, and was the first person in the city to use [...]
The family story is that the fishing boat “Mary S” was named after two ladies, Mary Stuczynski and another Mary whose last initial (Polish name) was “S”. My father remembers her going into service in the late 40s or early 50s, always as a fishing boat. Later came her sister boats, the “Mary S II” [...]
Seriously. Here is an excerpt of an article, THE BLACK SONS OF POLAND regarding Black Polish-Americans who fought for Poland. … In my personal opinion, they were sons of mixed Polish-African marriages, which were not so uncommon when the first wave of Polish immigrants reached the American soil. There was a dramatic shortage of Polish [...]
On the “Stuczynski Family Roots Page” of Steve's on Stuczynski.Com he offers the following explanation, based on information given to him by a design engineer, Dan Stuczynski of Detroit, Michigan, USA. The story starts at the end of the 13th century, about 1250 to 1270 A.D. when warriors from the Stuczynski clan joined forces to [...]
If you are, or are related to a Stuczynski / Stuczynska, here's the place to tell us where you are and who you are related to! Contact information is optional, but give us an idea where you are now (state/province) and where your family came from, as well as parents' and/or grandparents' names. Here is [...]