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Marie Curie's family tree: a daughter who lived to 102.
Marie Curie was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, the daughter of Wladyslaw Jozef Sklodowski and Bronisława Marianna Boguska, and died on 4 July 1934 in Passy, Rhône-Alpes, at 66. She married Pierre Curie. 2 children are in the tree. The FamilySearch Family Tree has her as Maria Salomea Skłodowska.
Marie Curie's family, year by year.
- 1867WarsawOn 7 November 1867, Marie Curie is born to Wladyslaw Jozef Sklodowski and Bronisława Marianna Boguska.
- 1876WarsawOn 1 January 1876, her sister Zofia Maria Skłodowska dies. She is 8.
- 1878WarszawaOn 9 May 1878, her mother, Bronisława Marianna Boguska, dies. She is 10.
- 1897Paris, Île-de-FranceOn 12 September 1897, her daughter Irène Curie is born.
- 1902Varsovie, MazowieckieOn 14 May 1902, her father, Wladyslaw Jozef Sklodowski, dies. She is 34.
- 1904Paris, Ile-de-FranceOn 6 December 1904, her daughter Ève Denise Julie Curie is born.
- 1906Paris, Île-de-FranceOn 19 April 1906, her husband, Pierre Curie, dies at 46.
- 1934Passy, Rhône-AlpesOn 4 July 1934, Marie Curie dies at 66.
Her children.
- Irène Curie (1897–1956), died at 58
- Ève Denise Julie Curie (1904–2007), died at 102
Where the lines came from.
Up her father's line: Wladyslaw Jozef Sklodowski, her father, born 1832 in Kielce, Świętokrzyskie; Wladyslaw Józef Skłodowski, her grandfather, born 1804 in Skłody, Masovia; Urban Skłodowski, her great-grandfather, born 1771; Jan Skłodowski, her 2nd great-grandfather, born 1743 in Poland; Jakub Skłodowski, her 3rd great-grandfather, born 1700; Seweryn Skłodowski, her 4th great-grandfather, born 1660 in Skłody, Mazowieckie; Maciej Skłodowski, her 5th great-grandfather, born 1612.
Up her mother's line: Bronisława Marianna Boguska, her mother, born 1835 in Ruchna, Masovia; Felix Boguski, her grandfather, born 1810 in Warszawa, Warszawskiego; Mateusz Boguski, her great-grandfather; Marcin Boguski, her 2nd great-grandfather; Franciszek Boguski, her 3rd great-grandfather; Bartłomiej Kisielewski, her 4th great-grandfather; Stanisław Kisielewski, her 5th great-grandfather; Adrian Kisielewski, her 6th great-grandfather.
The family as the FamilySearch Family Tree holds it: 47 people, 40 of them her ancestors. The earliest on her direct line is Maciej Skłodowski, born 1612.
Gaps in the record.
The FamilySearch Family Tree is built by the people who use it, and Marie Curie's has places nobody has filled yet. Eight generations back, 39 of the 254 places are filled. Most of the open ones are in Poland, in the 17th and 18th centuries: if that's where you research, they're your question. If you know who they were, add them on FamilySearch, with a source, and the next person to look will find them.
- Both parents of Elżbieta Małgorzata Rykaczewska (born 1786, Żelazy, Ostrów Mazowiecka)
- Both parents of Aleksander Sagtyński (born 1760, Poland)
- Both parents of Julianna Michałowska (born 1760, Poland)
- Both parents of Franciszek Zaruski
- Both parents of Barbara Nowakowska
- Both parents of Marianna Mierzejewska
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From the FamilySearch Family Tree, read on 7 November 2026: 47 people around Marie Curie, up to eight generations back and two down. Thanks to everyone who has added to it. The tree is its contributors' work; where it and history differ, this page says so and names the source. Everyone named on this page has died.