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Name Florence Filomina Czajka 
Birth 31 Aug 1912, Poland
Death 22 Jun 1962, Trenton, MI
Burial Michigan Memorial Cemetary, Flatrock, Michigan
Father Stanley Czajka
Mother Sophia Yoniuk
Spouses
1 Joseph Chester Mexico Macicot 
Birth 21 Mar 1907, River Rouge, Michigan
Death 27 May 1981, Trenton, Michigan
Burial Michigan Memorial Cemetary, Flatrock, Michigan
Father Daniel Joseph Macicot Mexico (1873-1947)
Mother Lucy Dora Ducier Dussia (1878-1963)
Marriage 1931, Trenton, Michigan
Children Robert James (1937-)
Patrick Daniel (1942-2004)
Chester Richard (1935-2002)
Lois Ann (1940-)
Notes for Florence Filomina Czajka
Came to U.S. on a boat from Poland when she was 9 years old with her mother, Sophia and family and step-father Broski.

She never became a U.S. citizen.

Owned a restaurant with her sister Mary. Worked their on Fort Street in Riverview between Sibley and Pennsylvania. Eventually sold it.

She died of Cancer. Mona (Roberts first wife) was with her at her home on 2359 Dickinson in Trenton, MI. when she died. Couldn't afford nurse so family took turns staying with her.

Middle initial is Filomina.

Tried to get Uncle Chet, Bob and Dad to go to a Polish school, but they didn't do too good, so they were put into a regular school.

Czajka, according to Polish surname expert Kazimierz Rymut, comes from the term czaja or czajka, "lapwing" (a bird, sort of like a gull), or from the verb root in czajac~, "to lie in wait for." I would think Czajka would usually come from the bird rather than the verb -- there are many popular Polish surnames derived from names of birds. It's tough to say exactly why such a name got started; it was probably a nickname. Perhaps something about a fellow reminded people of a lapwing, or he kept lapwings, or lapwings were common in the area where he lived. This is an extremely common name, as of 1990 there were some 16,245 Czajka's living in Poland; I see no real pattern to the distribution, the most Czajkas live in the provinces with the largest populations, which suggests it is more or less evenly distributed. There are quite a few other popular names from the same root, especially Czajkowski, which is the Polish way of spelling the name of the popular composer Tchaikovsky (he was Russian, but that spelling is German-influenced, I guess because his name became known to Europeans mainly through German conductors and experts on classical music).
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