Teressa Witkowska's Grave

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The grave of Teressa Witkowska nee Brochocka, in Promna cemetery. She was a grand-niece of Kazimierz Pulaski buried here after her death in 1861 at age 69. Memorialized on the stone as "Protectress of orphans and the poor." A similar tablet is located at the church.

Opening the grave belonging to Teressa Witkowska. (Left to Right) Karen Burns, anthropologist from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a member of the research group from Savannah; Paul Barford, archeologist from the Bureau for the Preservation of Monuments in Warsaw; Mark Lazar, and archeologist Witold Bujakowski from Radom.

Source: Andrzej Sikorski, Warsaw (from October 12, 1997)

Teressa Witkowska nee Brochocka
and her relationship to the Pulaski Family

Joanna Pulaski of the Slepowron [Blind Crow] crest, daughter of Jozef Pulaski, the Warka starosta and Marianna nee Zielinska was married, in 1764 or 1765, to Anastazy Walewski, of the Kolumna [Column] crest. She was his first wife and died before 1771. She bore him a son, Ksawery, and a daughter, Jozefa.

Jozefa Walewska, daughter of chamberlain Anastazy and Joanna Pulaska, was born around 1768, and died on 5 January 1834 in Grabow near Warka and was buried there. Her ruined grave was in existence until the beginning of the 20th century at the cemetery that adjoined the church in Grabow; now it is gone. Jozefa married Antoni Brochocki, of the Ossoria crest; who was the king's chamberlain, deputy to the sejm of 1786, cavalier of the order of St. Stanislaw, judge in the assesorial courts and son of Jan and Domicella nee Cienska, who received Grabow as dowry. Antoni died most likely before 1811 (and definitely before 1837). Her second husband was August Kazimierz Witkowski, of the Nowina [News] crest, president of the civil court in Sandomierz gubernia [township]; and was the son of Antoni and Katarzyna nee Mantzelman, was born around 1779, and died on 17 March 1844 in Radom and was also buried in Grabow. From the first marriage of Jozefa there was a daughter Teresa Jadwiga Franciszka Brochocka; the second marriage bore no children.

Teresa Brochocka was born around 1792 in Orlow. On 5 August 1837 she married her step-father August Witkowski. After his death, due to division of property among the family, she became the owner of Gory and Wysmierzyce (on the Pilica River, in the present Radom voivodship). She died in Gory in 23 December 1861 and was buried at the cemetery in Promna on the Pilica River. Her marriage to August Witkowski was childless.

Sources:

1. "Materialy i wypisy do dziejow rodziny Walewskich" [Materials and extracts from the annals of the Walewski Family] in the possession of Roman Walewski, Phd Engineer, in Warsaw; among these is an extract of the records of marriage of Jozefa Walewska with August Witkowski and an extract of her death record (extracts made by Prof. Zofia Dernalowicz of Warsaw in 1982).

2. "Odpis aktu zgonu Teresy Brochockiej Witkowskiej" [Extract of the death record of Teresa Witkowska nee Brochocka] in the possession of Andrzej Sikorski of Warsaw

3. J. Wisniewski , "Dekanat Kozienicki" [The Kozienice Decanate] Radom 1813, p. 35

4. S. Konarski, "Kanoniczki Warszawskie" [The Warsaw Canonesses] Paris 1952

5. The grave of Teresa Witkowska nee Brochocka at the cemetery in the town of Promna on the Pilica River (local gmina, Radom voivodship)