Research notes
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My grandfather John (Jan) Majewski was born in Poland on 12/24/1913 just after his father (Josef Majewska/i) left for America on the SS Ryndam out of Rotterdam on 8/23/1913. It was 10 years later that he met his father for the first time after sailing to America with his mother, Wladyslawa Sobczak (6/27/1896). There was no talk of relatives in Poland or what might have happened to them. Stories told were that my great grandmother had been disowned for marrying someone of a lower station. My grandfather reminisced of living in the servant quarters of a large property with peacocks. And the older gentleman who owned the property carved him wood toys. |