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Palikowka
A village in Rzeszow county, that lies over the old
river-bed of the Wislok River, on the North from the railway road
(of archduke Karol
Ludwik) in Strazow, it lies a distance of 12 kilometers to North-East
from Rzeszow; the Roman-Catholic parish is in Laka. This small settlement
is located down on the fertile plain, on the right bank of the Wislok
River. There are 157 houses and 802 inhabitants (377 men, 425 women);
790 Roman-Catholics, and 12 Jewish. The major land is with the Gawin
manor which lies on the East border of village and includes 6 houses
with 84
inhabitants; 69 Roman-Catholics, and 15 Jewish. There is a small forest
on the North (11 morgi) with foresters lodge. The major land,
Lord Potocki`s property, includes 213 morgi of farm land, 61 morgi
of meadows,
8 morgi of pasture and 11 of forest; minor land covers 663 morgi of farm
land, 97 morgi of meadows, 97 morgi of pasture. There is a communal
loan-society
with capital stock of 996 zlotys. Palikowka borders with Laka on the
West, with Lukowiec on the North , with Strazow and Krzemienica on
the South,
and with Wola Blizsza and Mala on the East.
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Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw 1886.
Submitted by Jay M. Orbik and translated
by Iwona Dakiniewicz - June 2002.

Panigro~dz
Panigro dz, in 16th-century documents
Panigrocz, a village in Wagrowiec county, 7 km. southwest of
Kcynia and the same distance northeast of Golancz; there is a parish in
the village, the post office is in Kcynia, the railway station is 18 km.
away in Osiek; there are 45 houses, 563 residents (546 Catholic and 17
Protestant). The major estate (of Maks Bertram) covers 180 hectares, with
net income from the land of 2,148 marks; the presbytery covers 154 hectares,
with a land income of 168 marks. Whether Zbilut, the Kujavian voivode
(circa 1018) came from Panigro dz has not been sufficiently
proved. In 1153 another Zbilut, founding a monastery in Lekno, endowed
it with the village of Panigrodz. His descendants signed their names
as "z Panigrodza" (see Paprocki's Armorial).
In 1233 Wladyslaw Odonicz conferred German law on the village; in 1248
Boguchwal and his brothers claimed rights to Panigro dz.
In 1283 Przemyslaw II conferred the right to free fairs and renewed permission
for its settling on the basis of German law. Panigrodz was the property
of the Lekno (Wagrowiec) monks up to recent times. In Great Poland
legal documents various confirmations of this ownership can be found.
The local church, under the patronage of St. John the Baptist, was a parish
church before 1523. A new church was erected on the site of the
old one in 1765 by Wojciech Kraszewski, the village landlord, but it burned
down in 1808; the present church, made of fired brick, was standing by
1830.
Panigro dz
parish, in Lekno deanery [Ed. Note-it was in Lekno deanery when this
was written, but now it's in Kcynia deanery], consists of: Chawlodno,
Kernerowo (Koernershe), Legniszewo, Panigro dz,
Rozpetek, Stolezyn, Szubianki and Wilkonice. In 1873 the parish
included 1,260 souls. Near Panigrodz are the so-called "Swedish
trenches"; an iron arrow was found here, 45 cm. long, 6.5 cm. long
in the middle, somewhat bent at the tip. In ancient times various urns
with bronze objects were supposedly dug up.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny
Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw.
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Summer 1996. (Nov
1998).

Parchanie
Current administrative location: Parchanie, Gmina Dąbrowa Biskupia, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Parchanie, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
Also known as Parkanie. It is a parish owned village, rural district, settlement, estate, and urban district located in powiat Inowrocław. Parchanie is about 9 kilometers from Inowrocław. The post office and parish are located in Parchanie. The railway station is located in Inowrocław.
The church in Parchanie was in existence before 1055. There are two late Bishops of Kujawy buried in Parchanie: Jęndrzej and Wenancjusz. In 1239, the Bishops established the Parchanie estate and in 1259, half of the mill was constructed. Documents dated June 19, 1259 list Parchanie among the villages owned by Pope Aleksandr IV. In 1372, Bishop Zbilut issued the construction of a windmill in Parchanie. In 1583, the Parchanie Parish consisted of: Baciszewko and Baciszewo (today called Balczewo), Gąski, Łagiewniki, Modliborzyce, Niemojewo, Olszewice, Parchanie, Słonsko, Szpital, and Szrubsko. Parchanie was owned by the Bishops of Włocławek and then by klucza (warden?) Łask.
Currently, the rural village of Parchanie has 22 houses with 240 inhabitants.The Parchanie settlement has 4 houses with 26 inhabitants. Both villages that create the rural district combine to total 26 houses with 266 inhabitants (13 Protestants and 253 Catholics).
The Parchanie estate has 7 houses with 127 inhabitants. The urban village of Parchanie has 48 houses with 355 inhabitants.The Parchanie urban district has 55 houses with 462 inhabitants (71 Protestants and 391 Catholics).
The district of Parchanie has an area of land equal to 305.88 hectare (255.32 hectare of farmland, 35.75 hectare of meadows, 10.21 hectare of pasture, and 4.60 hectare of reed). Parchanie specializes in cattle and sheep breeding. The Parchanie Parish belongs to the Gniewkowo deanery. In 1873, there was 1175 souls belonging to the parish.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.860].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Peplin
Peplin ,
1) also called Pelplin, in documents Marienberg, Mons sanctae Mariae,
Neu-Doberan, Novum Dubran, Polplin, Polpnin, Poplin, Samboria, Sambursh,
Peplyn, Poelplinum, formerly a village, since 1886 a marketplace in Starogard
powiat. [Translator's Note: The official name today is Pelplin], At one
time famed for its Cistercian monastery, today it is the seat of the Chelmno
bishopric. It lies in a picturesque region on the Wierzyca river, in a
valley between hills; it has a station for the eastern railway between
Bydgoszcz and Tczew (20 km. away), and a 2nd-class post office. It is
connected with Walichnowy on the Wisla river [Vistula] by telephone [sic].
Highways branch out from there to Starogard, to Tczew and the Peplin forestry
inspectorate, and to Morzeszczyn. Besides the bishop there is a chapter
there consisting of 10 canons. There is a seminary with four courses,
which is closed at present; an episcopal secondary school with 12 teachers
(10 clergymen and 2 lay) and about 230 pupils; a convent; elementary school;
pharmacy, two doctors; sugar-mill; a water-mill belonging to the chapter;
and a Polish bookshop and printing establishment, which publish Pielgrzym
and a Sunday supplement, Krzyz.
In 1868 Peplin had 1,684 Catholics (mainly Poles), 134
Protestants, 9 Jews, 104 houses; in 1879 it had 118 houses, 352 hearths,
and 1,904 inhabitants. In 1885 there were 2,117 inhabitants. Included
in the village are Polko, the seminary farmstead, and Maciejewo, owned
by the chapter; this whole area covers 4,210.16 morgs. The nearest Protestant
church is in Rudno. During the 1885-1886 campaign the local sugar-mill
processed 422,620 quintals of sugar-beets, which are cultivated on an
area of 2,850 Prussian morgs; the net profit came to 100,204 Marks, 82
Pfennigs.
The local populace calls the settlement Peplin, or often
Paplin, but never Pelplin. Thus Ketrzynski states correctly in Nazwy miejscowe
(page 13) that the name Pelplin is German, and Peplin is Polish. It appears
in the latter form in all Polish sources from the 16th and 17th centuries;
and Bishop Rozdrazewski of Kujawy, who stayed at the monastery in 1583,
wrote letters with a letterhead saying Peplinii. In his inspection report
from that year we see Peplin (page 54). In any case, in Chojnice powiat
and in East Prussia there are localities called Peplin; additionally,
in vicinities on the upper Wierzyca and Czarna Woda the surname Peplinski
is often encountered. The spelling in the documents is not consistent.
In the 13th century it was written as Polplyn and Polplin, in the 14th
and 15th centuries Polpelyn and Poelplyn; later German documents often
have Poelplin. Borck (Echo sepulchralis, Vol. II, page 370) derives this
name from papla, a local term for the poplar. In Pomerania plo means "swamp."
The Pomeranians liked to found villages in inaccessible places, especially
marshy ones.
Peplin is one of the oldest settlements in Pomerania.
In Swiecki's Starozytna Polska we read that Matawa near Nowe was
formerly called "Pepla" (page 318). This village, in Tyrnawa district,
existed before the founding of the monastery and belonged originally to
count Waysil or Wojslaw, who had a rich estate in the vicinity of Tczew;
from 1273 to 1276 he was governor of Swiecie, then of Tczew, and finally
of Gdansk. When Pogodki-to which the Cistercians came from Doberan in
Mecklenburg at the summons of Duke Sambor of Pomerania in 1258-turned
out to be inopportune, Wojslaw ceded Peplin to Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania,
as was customary at the time requesting that he give the village to the
monks. This was done, and the duke issued a separate document to this
effect in Swiecie on 2 January 1274 (see P. U. B. v. Perlbach, page 211,
and Rev. Kujota's Opactwo peplinskie, page 56).
But it was not until 1276, on the feast of St. Simon
and Jude, 28 October, that the monks moved to their new location, under
the leadership of Werner, their third abbot in Pogodki and their first
in Peplin. Even after that the generous Mestwin added new donations, and
Przemyslaw, Wladyslaw Lokietek, and the Pomeranian nobility followed his
example. The monastery acquired other properties by purchase. Before the
abolition of clergy-owned property, the following villages and estates
belonged to the monastery:
a) The Peplin estate in Starogard powiat, to wit, the
villages of. Nowacerkiew, Rzezecin, Morzeszczyn, Kulice, Krolowlas, Gentomie,
Rozental and Ropuchy.
b) the Pogodki estate in Koscierzyna powiat, to wit:
Kleszczewo, Jezierze, Waldowo and Waldowko, Wieckowy, Glodowo, Jaroszewy,
Kobylow, Junkrowy, Kozmin, Kowalikowo, Czernichowo, and the wastelands
of Malarki or Malar, Brzeczek, Ryle and Deka.
c) Farming settlements on the Vistula: Spegawy and Dobkowo,
Narkowy, Wielkie Slonce, Hoppenbruch or Chmielniki, formerly Gorka.
d) Estates or manorial farmsteads in Peplin estate belonging
to the monastery: Borkowo, Bielawki, Smolag Klasztorny, Rombarg, Wolsze,
Peplin, Wola, Nowydwor; as well as, in the Pogodki estate: Pogodki; Maly
Garc, Czatkowy, Speiswinkel, Pomyje, Kaldeling; several properties in
the Gdansk area; several mills, to wit, in Peplin, in Krolowlas, in Borkowo
and in Pogodki; and finally many lakes, such as: the eastern part of Lake
Wdzidzkie, Bobanczyn, Sitno, Sobacz, Slonce, the lake in Getomie, lake
Lag, Dubelno, Krag, Rokitowe, and several ponds.
Thus the Peplin monastery was a sort of independent principality.
The ducal judiciary ceased to operate here from the time of Mestwin's
donation; he even relinquished the collection of taxes and tributes in
1274, keeping for himself only labor service, which was limited to building
and strengthening defensive citadels.
In 1309 began the rule of the Teutonic Knights, which
was a time of adversity for the monastery. Under various pretexts they
restricted the monks' grants and turned a blind eye to those who looted
and attacked the monastery's estates, to the extent that in 1320 Pope
John XXII had to come to the monks' defense in response to their complaints.
An even greater nuisance to the monastery were Hussite soldiers in 1433.
They seized anything of value that they found, and after destroying their
reserves they burned down some of the monastery buildings. They stayed
there over five weeks. The beautiful monastery church served as their
stable (Dlugosz, Book XI, page 504).
The monastery was also looted several times during the
Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466). Not until the government by Polish kings,
beginning in 1466, was peace restored for Peplin and the whole region
of Prussia. The monastery's death register mentions Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk
among its benefactors, with a contribution of a thousand grzywnas. Aleksander,
who was in Gdansk in 1504, confirmed all the monastery's grants and privileges.
Zygmunt I did the same.
During the first war with Sweden, Peplin again experienced
misfortunes... [Omitted: a long section about King Gustav's visit to the
monastery in 1626]. During the second war with Sweden (1655-1660) Peplin
again suffered greatly. The Swedes came there in 1655, but the monastery
bought them off with a ransom of 9,000 zl. They returned the next year
on January 3rd and imposed a new charge of 9,000 zl. on the monastery.
When the attacks did not cease, the monks fled to Gdansk. At this time
news of Stefan Czarniecki's successes was spreading. In October 1656 a
Polish unit under Jakub Wejher, and Karol Grudzienski was near Peplin.
In 1657 skirmishes broke out near Peplin, which forced the monks to stay
on in Gdansk and to pawn almost all the church's furniture for 9,000 zl.
to cover expenditures. Despite this, toward the end of 1659 the Swedes
gave the Peplin abbot, then staying in Starogard, a demand to pay a "pillage
tax" (Brandschoss). When the abbot delayed paying, due to lack of money,
they burned the Peplin manorial farmstead. In mid-March the king's son-Adolf
went around to Rudno, Lignowy, and Garc, and from there came to Peplin,
where he tore from the inhabitants almost all that was left of their property.
During this time the monastery suffered more than at any other, for pillagers
forced all the doors open and smashed the furnaces. Not until the Treaty
of Oliwa did peace return. [Omitted: a long section on the visit of Queen
Eleanora in 1675 and of Jan Sobieski in 1677.]
In 1772 the whole property of the monastery came under
government administration. In 1810, on the 80th [sic] of October, King
Friedrich Wilhelm III issued an order to seize monastery properties to
pay for the French contribution. Finally the monastery was abolished by
a decree dated 14 March 1823. There were at that time 16 monks; formerly
there had been about 50. Since the monks first came there from Pogodki,
565 years had passed.
By virtue of the bull De salute animarum, dated
16 June 1821, Peplin became the seat of the Chelmno bishopric, and the
monastery became the cathedral church. The first Chelmno bishop to have
his residence in Peplin was Ignacy Batthy, 1824-1832; the second was Anastazy
Sedlag, 18341856; the third Jan Nepomucen Marwicz, 1857-1886; and the
fourth Leon Redner. [Omitted: a list of the 42 abbots who ran the monastery
from 1276-1814, and an exceedingly detailed description of the church].
The library contains beautiful manuscripts from the 12th
and 13th centuries with ornamental initial letters. A great many original
copies of charters and grants have also been preserved. Since 1674 a tower
with a tin roof has arisen over the library, designed just for the clock.
North of the cathedral stands the small parish church,
all of brick; it has been in existence since 1417. The Cistercians built
it for the use of the faithful of Peplin and the surrounding villages.
At first the church depended on the monastery. In the 17th century it
was generally administered by the pastors of nearby churches. Later priests
stayed there who had been appointed by the monastery as its patron and
served as administrators. Today the administrator is always one of the
Tum vicars. The bishop is entitled to the patronage. At this church, called
Corpus Christi, exists a Confraternity of Guardian Angels and of Sobriety.
Belonging to the parish are: Peplin, Maciejewo, Polko, and Wola. In 1867
there were 1,654 souls; in 1885 there were 1,968. The main gateway still
exists, and has been remodeled today for the choir director. The monastery
brewery was not dismantled until 1842. At the west end of the village
stands the new Sisters of Mercy convent, built in 1862 due to the efforts
of suffragan Rev. Jeschke. The Chapel of St. Joseph, adjoining the convent,
was consecrated in 1870. The image on the left side of the altar was a
gift from Queen Augusta.
Sources: 1) Opactwo pelplinskie, by Rev. Kujota,
Pelplin, 1875. 2) Szkice z ziemi i historii Prus Krolewskich, by
Lubinski, Gdansk, 1886. 3) Klasztory zenskie, by Rev. Fankidejski,
Peplin, 1883. 4) Z Prus Krolewskich, by St. Tarnowski. 5) Borck,
Echo sepulchralis, pages 370-414. 6) Die Bau-und Kunstdenkm¹ler
des Kreises Stargard, 1885; an illustrated work with a number of drawings
representing the most valuable relics of the church.
2) Peplin, a treasury-owned
forestry inspectorate, 2.5 km. west of the village of the same name, situated
on a hill over the highway from Tczew to Starogard, in Starogard powiat,
served by the post office in Peplin, the Catholic parish there, and the
Protestant church in Rudno. The inspectorate consists of the following
forestries: Bielawkerweide (German), Borkowo, Brody, Kochankenberg, Sturmberg,
and Samlin. The whole area covers 3,203.87 hectares: 113.29 of farmland
and gardens, 58.7 of meadows, 2,925.09 of coniferous and foliaceous forests,
101.7 unused, 5.07 of waters; net income from the land comes to 8,225
marks.
3) Peplin, a Chelmno
estate, Chojnice county, served by the post office and Catholic parish
in Lesno, about 10 km. away, and the Protestant church in Suminy in BytÑw
county, with a school in Wyndorp, 3,449.72 mÑrgs of area. In 1868 there
were 15 buildings, 5 houses, 59 Catholic inhabitants. Lipinski was the
owner in 1856. Peplin lies in the northeastern part of the county, on
Lake Peplinskie, and as empty land formerly belonged to the Tuchola starosta's
office. In 1693 Wojciech Peplinski complained to the Tuchola leaseholder,
Erazm Janowski, that the people of Ledy and Skoszewo were driving cattle
into his bypass, although the castle office forbade that so that his fields
would not be plowed up. The office allowed him to hunt at Miectok and
fish in the river; the meadow by the forest is his (see the Notes of Rev.
Kujota in Peplin). - Rev. Fr[ydrychowitcz]
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw [1886, vol. 7, pp. 944-949]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Summer 1999 Bulletin.

Piaski
A church, estate, and estate district in Inowrocław
county, about 8 kilometers east of Kruszwica, near the border of the Kingdom of
Poland. There is a parish on site; the post office is in Kruszwica, and the
railroad station is in Jarosław, 18 kilometers away. There are 10 houses,
133 inhabitants, and an area of 503.24 hectares; net income of 3,900 marks;
Swiss cattle are raised there; the owner is Czesław Jaczyński. By
around 1383 Piaski belonged already to the Kruszwica chapter; it was looted
during the domestic disorders by the followers of Domarat, castellan of
Poznań. Circa 1560, the following owned property there: Felix Wolski, 3 łan’s*
and 2 zagrodnicy [peasant farmers working garden-sized plots of land];
Wojciech Szuba, 1 łan and 2 zagrodnicy; Wacław Sowa, 1 łan and 2 zagrodnicy; Jędrzej Rychalski and Maciej Strzezik, 1 łan
each. The parish at that time was composed of: Bacharcie, Piaski, Piecki Małe
and Piecki Wielkie, Skotniki Zabłotne, Tarnówko, and Wola Wapowska. Two
flint hatchets were discovered there. The Marcinki manorial farmstead was
included in the estate district. The whole district had 11 houses and
145 Catholic inhabitants.
*łan – a measurement of the size of a farm, the
value of which varied in different times and different places. In this context,
one łan was probably a little less than 17 hectares.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, Vol. 8, p. 55, #15]
Translated by Allen & Marie Grasser, edited by William F. Hoffman.

Pieczyska
Current administrative location: Pieczyska, Gmina Dąbrowa Biskupia, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Pieczyska, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
1) Mistakenly called Pieczysk. It is an estate located in powiat Inowrocław. Pieczyska is about 11 kilometers northeast of Kruszwica. Pieczyska belongs to the Pieranie Parish. The post office is located in Parchanie. The railway station is located 13 kilometers away in Inowrocław. The Pieczyska estate has 2 houses with 57 inhabitants, all of them Catholic. The estate of Pieczyska has an area of land equal to 552.41 hectare (281.51 hectare of farmland, 45.50 hectare of meadows, 15.22 hectare of pasture, 187.69 hectare of forests, 22.26 hectare of unused barren land, and 0.23 hectare of water). The income generated from the land is equal to 2716 marks. The estate specializes in sheep breeding. The estate is owned by Józef Mański.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.75].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Pieranie
Current administrative location: Pieranie, Gmina Dąbrowa Biskupia, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Freitagsheim, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
German name: Freitagsheim. It is the local parish church and an estate located in powiat Inowrocław. Pieranie is about 13 kilometers northeast of Kruszwica. Pieranie is located near the border of the Kingdom of Poland. The Pieranie Parish church is located within the Pieranie estate. The post office is located in Parchanie. The railway station is located in Inowrocław, which is about 15 kilometers away. Together with the parish, there are 9 houses with 151 inhabitants (5 Protestants and 146 Catholics).
The Pieranie estate has an area of land equal to 575.97 hectare (406.80 hectare of farmland, 54.22 hectare of meadows, 83.25 hectare of pasture, 27.44 hectare of unused barren land, and 4.26 hectare of water). The income generated from the land is equal to 2460 marks.
In 1301, Mikołaj Widowicz, Pastor of Płock, gave the Pieranie Parish church to the Włocławek diocese. In 1583, the estate was held by Sebastyan Osiecki. The Pieranie Parish consists of: Bąkowo, Baśkowo, Dziewa, Głojkowo, Pieranie, and Sobiesiernie. In 1595, for a time, the local church was in the hands of the protestants and the minister was Jan Pigeliusz. Currently, the Pieranie Parish belongs to the Gniewkowo deanery. In 1873, there were 935 souls belonging to the parish.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.93].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Pilwiszki
Now Pilviskiai, Lithuania, a municipal settlement, before
1867 a small town, on the river Szeszupa [Sesupe] by the mouths of the
rivers Pilwa [Pilve] and Wysoka [Visakis], in Maryampol [Marijampole]
county, Pilwiszki gmina and parish. This settlement has a scenic location
on an elevated bank of the river. It is 27 km. from Maryampol and 15
km. from Wylkowyszki [Viikaviskis]. It has a wooden parish church, the
gmina office, an elementary school, a pharmacy, and a railroad station
of the Warsaw St. Petersburg line on the branch running from Kowno [Kaunas]
to Ejtkuny [Chernyshevskoye}, Kaliningrad oblast, Russia], 31 km. from
Wierzbolowo [Virbalis], and 93 km. from Koszedary [Kaisiadorys]. The
settlement has 157 houses and 2,291 inhabitants. In 1827 there were 81
houses there, with 888 inhabitants; in 1862 there were 226 houses with
1,889 inhabitants.
Pilwiszki arose on the grounds of extensive forests that comprised royal
estates. Originally a village, in 1536 it received a town charter. The
absence of favorable conditions limited the town's development, and it
took on the character of a village; it was not until 1792 that a new
charter issued by Stanislaw August restored its status as a town and
returned privileges to its populace that the abuses of starostas had
usurped. In 1709 the starosta of Pilwiszki, Stefan Chrapowicki, founded
a church and parish here. Pilwiszki is known for its cattle and horse
fairs. Currently 6 fairs are held there each year. The parish of Pilwiszki,
in the deanery of Maryampol (formerly Sapiezyszki [Zapyskis]) has 7,003
souls.
The gmina of Pilwiszki belongs to gmina court district No. 2 in Dbowa
Buda [Azuolt Buda], and is served by the post office in Maryampol. The
gmina includes these localities: Antonowo [AntanavasJ, Arzolupie [Arzuolupiai],
Audeiszki [AudiejiskeJ, Auksztyszki [? Aukstiske], Bartniki [Bartninkai],
Biersztupie [Berstupis], Bierznowienie-Czepajcia [? Berznaviene-Cepaicaiai],
Bierznowienie-Dabrowskich, Bogata [Bagatoji],
Budwiecie Budvietis], Garbiszki [? Gabriske], Gieruliszki [Geruliske],
Izdogi [? Isdagai] Male, Izdogi Nadwysokie, Jozuniszki [Juozuniske] Poparafialne,
Jozuniszki Rzadowe, Jurksze [Jurksai], Kaiwa [Kalva], Karkliniszki [?
Karkliniskes], Kiermusze [? Kermuse], Kirsnokiszki [Kirsnokiske],
Krawniszki [? Kriauniske], Kuczyszki [Kuciske], Linksmokalnie [Linksmakalnis],
Mejsztyszki [Meistiske], Pilwiszki, Pinczyszki [? Pinciskiai], Poprudzie
[Paprudziai], Potaszniki, Skindeliszki [Skindeliske], Stejniszki [Stainiske],
Stepkiszki [Stepkiske], Szatmusie [? Sakmusis], Szaudynie [? Siaudyniai],
Szaudadusze [Siadaduse], Szlurpkiszki Sliurpkiske], Tymienszczyki [Timinciske],
Ubognowina, Uszpilnie [? Uzpilviai], Uszprudzie [? Uzprudziai], Warakiszki
[Varakiske], Wojty [Vaitai], and Wysokiszki [? Visakiskiai].
Pilwiszki forest district has 47,601 morgs of land and is divided into
sections called Wilemska, Sparwinie, Girniki [? Girnikai], and Klampupie
[? Klampupiai]. In 1861 a marksman's school for the gubernia of Augustow
was held in this forest district. In 1828 amber was discovered here;
the treasury received a total of 1,093 silver rubles for the right to
mine it.
Pilwiszki starostwo, not affiliated with a grod, was in Troki [TrakaiJ
province, Kowno county. According to 1866 treasurers' lists it consisted
of the town of Pilwiszki and the Giwaltowo [? GavaltuvaJ estate with
appurtenances, owned by Chrapowicki, Orsza marshal, who paid a kwarta
of 3,084 zlp. and 4 gr., and a hyberna of 1,246 zlp. The Sejm of 1773
1775 bestowed emphyteutic ownership of this starostwo on Jacek Paszkowki,
master of the equerry for the province of Brzesc Litewski, and he paid
a kwarta of 3,533 zlp. [Br[onislawJ Ch{lebowski]
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 147].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 2004
Rodziny.

Pilzno
Link to
translation by William F. Hoffman, for PGST "Polish
Footprints" (Nov 1998)

Piotrkowice
A village and manorial farmstead on a lake in Kolo county,
Piotrkowice gmina*, Wqsosze parish, 30 versts [about 32 km.] from Kolo.
It has a general elementary school, a brickyard, and an oil mill. The
village has 9 houses and 228 inhabitants; the manorial farmstead has
4 houses and 107 inhabitants.
In 1886 the estate of Piotrkowice (formerly 1esin) consisted of. the
manorial farmsteads of Piotrkowice and Rozopole, the settlement of Slesin,
and the villages of Piotrkowice, Wygoda, Kolebki, Polwiosk Stary, Polwiosk
Nowy, and Niedzwiady. The manorial grounds covered 1,082 mórgs.
The manorial farmstead of Piotrkowice had 742 mórgs of farmland
and gardens, 19 of meadows, 9 of pastureland, 18 of forests, 18 unused,
for a total of 806; there were 12 buildings of stone and 12 of wood,
and 6-and 13 field crop rotation. The manorial farmstead of Rozopol had
240 mórgs of farmland and gardens, 3 of meadows, 21 of forests,
and 12 unused, for a total of 276; there were 2 buildings of stone and
4 of wood; there was 10 field crop rotation, and a windmill The settlement
of Slesin had 116 settlements with 871 mórgs; the village of Piotrkowice
had 19 settlements with 52 mórgs; the village of Wygoda had 31
settlements, with 187 mórgs; the village of Kolebki had 32 settlements
and 261 m6rgs; the village of Polwiosk Stary had 37 settlements with
328 mórgs; the village of Polwiosk Nowy had 32 settlements with
148 mórgs; the village of Niedzwiady had 42 settlements with 497
mórgs. According to the Lib. ben. Lask (II, 212 and 228), a dziesiccina
from the Piotrkowice manorial farmstead's lans and from certain lans
belonging to the peasants was given to the pastor of the parish church
in Wasosze, and the pastor in Sompolno took others of the peasants' Lana
According to the Konin county tax register for 1879 the village of Piotrkowice,
in the parish of Wassosze [sic], belonged to Stanislaw Zagorski, and
it had 2 lans and 2 zagrody without land (Pawinski, Wielkopoiska, Vol.
I, p.241).
Piotrkowice gmina belongs to the district IV gmina court in Sompolno;
the post office is in Sompolno as well. The grnina has 9,195 mórgs
of land and 2,743 inhabitants (as of 1867). [Br{onistaw} Ch{lebowski}].
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 208].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 2003
Rodziny.

Piotrkowice
Formerly known as Stankowice. A dominium located in powiat Inowrocław. It is located about 8 kilometers southwest from Inowrocław. Piotrkowice belongs to the Ludzisko Parish. The post office is located in Mątwy. The railway station is located about 6 kilometers away in Janikowo. Piotrkowice has 10 houses with 158 inhabitants (all Catholics).
The Piotrkowice dominium has an area of land equal to 501.35 hectare (304.67 hectare of farmland, 148.99 hectare of meadows, 3.77 hectare of forest, 6.52 hectare of unused barren land, and 37.40 hectare of water). The income generated from the land is equal to 9454 marks. Piotrkowice has a peat bog, dairy farm, and a cattle breeder.
The property belonged to Walery Rutkowski until he sold his inheritance to the Germans. Piotrkowice was known and established by 1450 (Ryszczew. Kod. Dypl., II, 895). In 1580, the owner was Jan Wleniecki.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.210].
Translated by Al Wierzba, December 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Pławin
Current administrative location: Pławin, Gmina Inowrocław, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Plawin, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
A dominium located in powiat Inowrocław. It is located about 5 kilometers southeast of Pakość. Pławin belongs to the Kościelec Parish. The post office is located in Jaksice. There are railway stations located about 7 kilometers away in both Inowrocław and Złotniki. Pławin has 4 houses with 113 inhabitants (89 Catholics and 24 Protestants).
The Pławin dominium has an area of land equal to 305.90 hectare (294.40 hectare of farmland, 8.60 hectare of meadows, and 2.90 hectare of unused barren land). The income generated from the land is equal to 5480 marks. Pławin specializes in sheep and cattle breeding, along with sugar beet farming.
The owner is Edmund Mittelstaedt. In 1488, the Bishop of Włocławek, Piotr of Bnin, gave Pławin a seminary in exchange for a tithe (tenth of the dominium's income). In 1583, Jan Pławinski sat at the head of the Pławin seminary. From documents dating from the 14 century, there possibly could have been a mill located in Pławin, see also the entry for the village of Pławanów (Ryszczew. Kod. Dypl. II, 157). E. Cal.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.278].
Translated by Al Wierzba, August 2010. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Pławinek
Current administrative location: Pławinek, Gmina Inowrocław, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Plawinek, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
A dominium located in powiat Inowrocław. It is located about 8 kilometers southeast of Inowrocław. Pławinek belongs to the Góra Parish. The post office and railway station are located in Inowrocław. Pławinek has 10 houses with 147 inhabitants (all Catholics).
The Pławinek dominium has an area of land equal to 427.45 hectare (391.66 hectare of farmland, 14.30 hectare of meadows, 0.17 hectare of pastures, 5.75 hectare of forest, and 15.57 hectare of unused barren land). Pławinek specializes in Dutch cattle breeding. The owner is Kazimiera Łyskowska. E. Cal.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.278].
Translated by Al Wierzba, December 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Plocicz
Plocicz, in the Kodeks Wielkopolski mentioned as Ploczyce,
in 1357 Plocyce, 1597 Pletz, 1673 Plociez, German Ploetzig. a village
in Zlotow powiat, served by the postal station and Catholic parish
in Kamien, and by the Protestant congregation in Sep—lno; it has its
own school. It covers an area of 8,047.81 Magdeburg-measure m—rgs.
In 1868 there were 306 buildings, 125 houses, and 842 inhabitants,
673 of them Catholic, 169 Protestant. Plocicz lies on the highway leading
from Chojnice to Naklo, about 4 km. south of Kamien. In 1597 a village
Stare-Lolowo existed next to Plocicz. A green meadow near a forest
separates both from Kamien. In 1859 a jug with silver coins, buckles,
and earrings, as well as ingots and sheets of silver, dating from the
10th and 11th centuries, were found in Plocicz (see Der Kreis Flatow
by Schmitt, p. 268, and Preuss. Prov., Bl. 1851, XI, p. 318). Plocicz
was mentioned in a 1357 charter of King Kazimierz as belonging to the
Gniezno archbishops (see Kodeks dyplomatyczny Wielkopolski, III, No.
1354). See also Kamien, Vol. 3, p. 739.- Rev. Frydrychowitcz
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 284].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 1997Bulletin.

Pniewo
Pniewo, a village and estate on the Narew river, powiat
of Lomza, gmina and parish of Puchaly. In 1827 it had 32 houses and
288 inhabitants. In 1884 the manorial farmstead of Pniewo-A, including
the villages of Pniewo, Budy Pniewskie, Rybno, and Gac, covered 3,090
morgs, of which farmland and gardens occupied 546, meadows 597, pastureland
121, forests 1,721, water 74, and 31 were unused. There were 4 buildings
made of stone and 33 of wood; 7-field crop rotation was in use; the
forest was not administered. The village of Pniewo had 28 settlements,
with 452 morgs of land; the village Budy Pniewskie had 4 settlements
and 39 morgs of land; the village Rybno-A had 9 settlements and 111
morgs of land; the village Gac had 2 settlements with 3 morgs of land.
The manorial farmstead of Pniewo-B had 1,268 morgs:
farmland and gardens 225, meadows 245, pastureland 33, forests 136,
water 16, and 13 unused. It had 3 stone buildings, 7-field crop rotation,
and the forest was unadministered. This manorial farmstead was split
off from the estate of Puchaly. [Br. Ch. - ]
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 333]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 2000.

Podbudwiecie
A settlement in the parish and
rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county, located 15 versts from Sejny.
One house and 8 residents.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 365]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England,
Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)

Podgaj
Current administrative location: Podgaj, Gmina Aleksandrow–Kujawski, Powiat Aleksandrów, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Podgaj, Powiat Nieszawa, Gubernia Warszawske, Vistula Land, Russian Empire.
1) A village located in powiat Nieszawa and gmina Służewo. The village of Podgaj belongs to the Służewo Parish. Podgaj has a population of 89 inhabitants and 18 morgs of peasant owned land.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.376].
Translated by Al Wierzba, May 2010. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Podhelenowo
A settlement in the parish and
rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny County, locatred 20 versts from Sejny.
2 houses and 24 people. In the past it was part of the estate of Justyanowo.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 391]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Podjauczule
A settlement in the parish and
rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county which is located 28 versts
from the town of Sejny. There are 3 houses with 17 residents and 16 morgs
of land. In the past it
was part of the estate
of Justyanowo.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 400]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Podlipki
A village in the parish of Lejpuny, rural district
of Kopciowo, Sejny county. Located 33 versts from Sejny, the village
has 16 houses with 169 residents. In 1827 there were 12 houses and
136 residents.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 427]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Podumble
A peasant village the parish and rural district
of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 24 versts from the town of Sejny.
There are 19 houses and 215 residents and 845 morgs of land. Once part
of the
Justyanowo estate. Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 476]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Pohulanka
Located 26 versts from the town of Sejny.
In 1827, there was one house with 9 people and it may have been part
of the parish of Sereje. Now there are 2 houses and 13 people and it
is in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 529, item 15]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Polabiele
A settlement in the parish and rural district
of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 35 versts from the town of Sejny.
2 houses, 13 inhabitants.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887 [Vol. 8, p. 561]
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Polaczany
A village in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo.
21 versts from the town of Sejny. There are 7 houses and 75 people,
and a land
area of 507 morgs In earlier time it was part of the manorial farmstead
of Holny Wolmera.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw 1887
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Pol~czyn
Polczyn 1). German Polzin, in a 1717 document Polczyno,
a Chelmno village and estate, or a free solectwo in Kaszuby, Wejherowo
county, with a post office; served by the Catholic and Evangelical
Protestant parishes in Puck, 3.5 km. to the cast, railway station in
Wejherowo, 12 kin. southwest, Catholic school in Polczyn. It contains
12 peasant properties and 8 zagrod as, covering an area of 115 wlokas
and 28 morgs. In 1869 there were 470 inhabitants (403 Catholic, 67
Evangelical Protestant), 46 houses. The free solectwo by itself is
311.9 hectares, with net profit of 3,216 marks from the land; cattle
are raised there. In 1858 it was owned by Hannemann. Polczyn lies on
the Gdansk highway, 3.7 km. from the Bay of Puck; it has fertile soil.
On March 1, 1378 Walpot von Bessenheim, the Teutonic
Knights commander for the region of Gdansk, granted the village of "Poltzin" to
Konrad Wysen on terms of Chelmno law*, with 59112wiokas and 4 morgs.
Of these 6 belonged to the free solectwo, and the rest paid 1 grzywna
and 2 hens each, with 2 days of compulsory labor service. The bishop
and pastor were to collect the usual tithes. Around 1400 there were
521/2 settled wlokas, and there was a tavern in the village. The village
provided 5 armed men ("Wepner") for military expeditions. In 1656 King
Kazimierz gave two serfs in Polczyn to the Puck townsman Tomasz Ranke
for the rest of his life, as a reward for his loyal services. In 1657
when Polczyn, as a manorial farmstead, belonged to the castle of Puck,
there were sown there 1 last and 24 bushels of rye, 31 bushels of barley,
3 lasts and 16 bushels of oats, and 21/2 bushels of peas. This farmstead
produced 15 florins, 10 grosz, 5 achtels of butter, 14 hens, and 660
eggs. In 1650 the livestock inventory was as follows: 10 milk cows
(at 13 florins), 13 other cows (at 15 florins), 7 two-year-olds, 3
one-year-olds, 1 stud, 3 swine, 9 hogs, 8 piglets, 8 geese, 15 hens,
and 7 heifers (see Prutz, Geschichte des Kreises Neustadt, p. 238).
A 1678 inspection report reads as follows:
Village Polczyno and folwark. According to its charter
it is supposed to have 581/2 wlokas and 4 morgs. Folwark: (a description
of the buildings and gear follows, which we have omitted). The local
official, a widower with a daughter and a son, also has a farmhand
and a girl servant. The toll house and pension are as in the Pieleszewo
folwark. Livestock and odds and ends: 16 cows, 1 stud, four 2-year
old heifers, two 2-year-old bullocks, three year-old heifers, 1 bullock,
4 calves, 3 old swine, 1 stud, 2 hogs, 5 piglets, geese and hens
as in all folwarks. First sowings: 1 last and 56 bushels of rye were
sown for winter. The local official stated that the following amounts
of vegetables can be sown: 50 bushels of barley, 2 lasts of oats,
6 bushels of peas. There is one orchard by the folwark and a second
empty one, and when the crop is good, there is income for the castle
from it.
The village settlement: soltys Piotr Parchem and his
wife have four children, and live on 3 w1okas; per custom he sends
horse and cart to the castle when they orderit, and supplies it with
5 bushels of oats. A second soltys, Szymon Lesnau and his wife, have
two children and live on 3 w1okas. Like the first soltys, he provides
cart and horses and oats. At one time there were 19 peasant properties
in this village; now there are 13, and the 14th, vacant, is held
by the leaseholder. Of these peasants, 8 do maintenance work on the
road leading to the castle. The 9th belongs to His Excellency the
dean of Puck per grant of privilege as seen below. The 10th and 11th
are subject to Tomasz Ranken, mayor of Puck, by grant of privilege
and ordinance as seen below. The 12th and 13th peasant properties
belong to the patricians of Gdansk and are leased from them by various
persons from time to time for up to a year.
Pawel Hanman, a serf, has a wife and one child, lives
on 11/2 wlokas, and does road maintenance work like the others; he
pays a rent of 3 fl., 26 grosz, 2 szelags, and provides 10 bushels
of oats, 6 hens, and 6 eggs. The widow of Jakub Busz, a serf, has
an adult son, a bachelor, who runs her farm; he does road maintenance
work like the others, and provides 11 bushels of oats and hens and
eggs like the others. Jakub Bolda, a serf, has a wife and two children,
does road maintenance work, pays rent, and provides oats, hens, and
eggs like all the others. Jan Szauenberg, a serf, has a wife and
one child; he does road maintenance work, pays rent, and provides
oats, hens, and eggs like all the others. Jerzy Detlof, a serf, has
a wife and two children, etc. Jan Kleba, a serf, has a wife and four
children, etc. Tomasz Dytlof, a serf, has a wife and two children,
etc. Michal Kornik, a serf, has a wife, one child, and does the same
as the others, additionally providing 10 bushels of oats. Jerzy Top,
a serf, has a wife and 8 children; this peasant is subject to the
honest Swietosz Brychelka, a townsman of Puck, according to a contract
with the patricians of Gdansk for up to a year, until the feast-day
of St. Ursula, and at the same time paid the lords of Gdansk an advance
tribute of 70 florins a year; in addition this peasant pays rent
and provides the castle with oats, hens, and eggs like the others.
Michal Halman, a serf, has a wife, and is subject to Lord Jan Ross
[sic], mayor of Puck, according to a contract from the Lords of Gdansk,
for up to a year, until the feast-day of St. Ursula. He also paid
the lords of Gdansk in advance for annual road maintenance work;
he pays rent and provides the castle with oats, hens, and eggs. Michal
Parchem, a serf, has a wife and two children; he leases 1 1/2 wlokas,
paying a rent of 30 florins, and helps with the harvest like the
others. Jakub Bosch, a serf, has a wife and a dwelling and some land,
for which he pays 12 florins. Andrys Buszch, son of Matys Buszch,
a serf, has a wife and four children; he is subject to the dean of
Puck, Rev. Jerzy Rydelius, by virtue of a cession by Her Excellency
Mrs. Zawadzka, wife of the Puck starosta, by a grant of privilege
from His Majesty King Jan Kazimierz dated 4 August 1661. We found
him mentioned as possessor of a life-long grant of privilege in an
inspection report from 1669, to which he produced a confirmation
by the present King, His Majesty, Jan III, dated 25 October 1677,
with all rights remitted to His Majesty. Tomasz Hanman, heir of the
late Tomasz Busch, is a serf, and Jerzy Kornik, successor to Jedrzej
Detlef, is another. They are subject to Lord Tomasz Lucki of Ranki,
Puck mayor, and his wife Katarzyna, who shares his right to them;
he produced a grant of privilege from His Majesty, King Jan Kazimierz,
dated 2 December 1656, giving him life-long right to these serfs,
and so forth. Pawel Rewa, a serf, has a wife and three children;
he is the owner of a garden-sized plot... The lord's beer in this
village is served in turn by peasants, each for a year (pp. 316-33a)
.In conclusion, we should add that between 1862 and
1865 a decorated urn was recovered here on the village's northwest
side, 50 steps to left of the highway leading to the village of ZdradyIt
was filled with bones and covered with a flat stone (see Objasn. do
mapy archeol. Prus Zach., by Ossowski, p. 91).
2.) PoIczyn, German name Polzin, a knightly estate,
in the same place, 250 hectares; property of Simon.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [Rev.Frydrychowitcz, 1887 Vol. 8, pp. 711-712]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA August 2000 Rodziny.

Polun~ce
Polunce, a peasant village, Lida powiat, in the 4th
political district, belonging to the Radun gmina and rural district
and treasury-owned estate of Kiwance, one km. from the gmina, 39 inhabitants.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 703].
Translated by Barbara Proko, Boulder, CO and edited
by Fred Hoffman. From the PGSA Summer 1998 Bulletin.

Pomiany
Current administrative location: Pomiany, Gmina Koneck, Powiat Aleksandrów, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Pomiany, Powiat Nieszawa, Gubernia Warszawske, Vistula Land, Russian Empire.
1) A manor farm (folwark) and village located in powiat Nieszawa and gmina Straszewo. Pomiany belongs to the Koneck Parish. It is a distance of 11 verst from Nieszawa. Pomiany has 71 inhabitants. In 1876, this folwark was separated from the Koneck estate. The Pomiany folwark has 190 morgs of open area (181 morgs of arable farm and garden land, 2 morgs of meadows, 7 morgs of barren land), 4 brick buildings and 1 wooden building. The Pomiany village has 9 inhabitants on 10 morgs of land.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.744].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Popowice
Current administrative location: Popowice, Gmina Inowrocław, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Popowice, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
1) An estate located in powiat Inowrocław. It is located about 4 kilometers southwest of Inowrocław. Popowice belongs to the Inowrocław Parish. The post office and railway station are also located in Inowrocław. Popowice has 8 houses with 129 inhabitants (all Catholics).
The Popowice estate has an area of land equal to 310.56 hectare (221.60 hectare of farmland, 18.20 hectare of meadows, 66.24 hectare of pastures, and 4.51 hectare of unused barren land). The income generated from the land is equal to 5219 marks.
Popowice is owned by the (Zwiastowania) NMP Parish in Inowrocław. As far back as 1583, Popowice was owned by an Inowrocław pastor and the estate was comprised of 5 łans (fields).
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1895, vol.8, p.800].
Translated by Al Wierzba, December 2009. Originally posted on Al's Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.

Pora~bka
Porabka, a village in Limanowa powiat, Roman Catholic
parish in Dobra, lies in a hilly region, on the highway from the old
Sub-Carpathian railway station in Dobra to Lapanow and Gdow. The elevation
of the village is 611 meters; to the west the Snieznica rises to a
height of 1,006 meters, to the east the elevation is 650 meters. The
village is on the bank of the Lososina. Spruce forests stretch to the
west and south. It borders to the south on Dobra, to the north on Stroza
Struskiewicze, to the east on Zawadka, and has 443 inhabitants, 438
Roman Catholic and 5 Jewish. On the grounds of the major estate, owned
by the Cistercian Fathers' monastery in Szczyrzyc, there are 2 houses,
21 Roman Catholic inhabitants. Of its 936 morgs, the major estate has
164 (i.e., 40 of farmland, 15 of meadows, 15 of pastures and 194 of
woods); the minor estates has 872 (i.e., 415 farmland, 113 of meadows,
171 of pastures and 173 of woods). The soil is for oats and rocky.
The gmina has a loan society with a capital of 186 Rhenish zl. Dlugosz
mentions this village (in Liber beneficiorum, II, 265) as the property
of Spytek "de domo Streparum" ["of the house of Strepa"?]; at that
time the peasants rendered a tithe to the Bishop of Krak—w, and the
pastor in Dobra also collected a tithe from the lan belonging to the
nobility (praedium). In 1581 this village was divided into two parts:
the property of the Szczyrzyc monastery had 9 peasant half-lan sections
and a croft [zagroda] with farmland, and Sebastyan Sikorski's part
had 1 peasant's lan and 7 crofts with land (Pawinski, Malopolska, 53).
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, pp. 813-814]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 1999 Bulletin.

Posady
Posady, a peasant village on the Radunka, Lida powiat,
in the 4th political district, gmina and treasury-owned estate of Kiwance,
2 km. from the gmina, 32 km. from Lida and 40 km. from Wasiliszki [Vasiliski,
Belarus], has 9 houses, 92 Catholic inhabitants (42 souls in the year
1864, per the rewizja).
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw [1887, vol. 8, p. 842].
Translated by Barbara Proko, Boulder, CO and edited
by Fred Hoffman. From the PGSA Summer 1998 Bulletin.
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