Kacwin
-in the County of Slovan, Hungary
The village is near Spisz in the district of Niedzica. In German it is Kacvin and in Hungarian it is Kaczvin. It is on the river Kacwin at the mouth of the Dunajec located in a wide valley that is enclosed on both sides by the North Magora (Spisz). Kacwin was also known as Kacwink, originally as Katzwinkel and Katzenwinkel. It already existed in the 13th century. It is only known that the owner Kokosz in the year 1320 sold the territory Frydman (near Niedzica), Kacwin, and Frankowa to his brother Jan and his son Michael for 100 grzywien. The Roman Catholic parish was established in 1278 but it was not known when the church was built. The church’s name is “All Saints” and the registers date from 1679.
In 1880 the village had 940 people: 832 Roman Catholics, 1 Greek Catholic, 14 Jews, and 93 non-Uniate (Greek Orthodox). There are two chapels: Holy Trinity and Saint Ann. The post office is in Starawies. The church is at an elevation of 561 m. From the west are the hills Krzyzona (Krizowa Hora) with an elevation of 767 m, Kunia Hora is 780 m, Winterleit is 723 m, Sklad 825 m, and from the east Halzyna 734 m and the hill Czerbulski is 743 m.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw
Submitted by: Stan Schmidt, 106 S. Hill Street, IL 60172 (Jun 1998)
Current administrative location: Kaczkowo, Gmina Gniewkowo, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Kaczkowo, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
1) Also called Kaczkowska wieś or Kaczkowerdorf (German name). A village located in powiat Inowrocław. Kaczkowo has 19 houses with 141 inhabitants (all are Evangelical Protestants). There are 9 inhabitants that are illiterate. The post office and railway station are located in Gniewkowo (German name: Argenau), which is about 4 kilometers away.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol.3, p.655].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al’s Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.
Kakolowka, a long village on the Strug, which flows from the right bank into the Wislok, and located on the Rzeszow-Dukla highway. The village, surrounded by coniferous forests, has two outlying hamlets, Newsie and Wola, and belongs to the Roman Catholic parish in Blazowa, 1 km. away. The population of 1,896 Roman Catholics works in agriculture, as well as weaving and home industry. According to a memorial submitted to the Galician administration in 1882 there were-140 weavers’ shops here. They use factory-made yarn from Silesia or handmade from Grodek, but have little of their own, because they maintain that the soil is exhausted and thus cultivating flax doesn’t pay. They sell good products, some locally, some in Krakow, Lwow, and even in Moldavia. Some of the finest work is even said to come back from Romania to Galicia as Romanian or Turkish goods. There is a one-class people’s school here. The major estate, owned by Wl. Skrzynski, has a total area of 283 morgs of farmland and 1,365 of woods; the minor estate has 1,470 morgs of farmland, 192 of meadows and gardens, 166 of pastureland, and 230 of woods. See also Izwor and Kamienny potok. – Mac.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1882, vol. 3, p. 940].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 2000 Bulletin.
Current administrative location: Kalinowiec, Gmina Bądkowo, Powiat Aleksandrów, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Kalinowiec, Powiat Nieszawa, Gubernia Warszawske, Vistula Land, Russian Empire.
1) A village and manor farm (folwark) located in powiat Nieszawa and gmina Bądkowo. Kalinowiec belongs to the Bądkowo Parish.
The Kalinowiec folwark has a land area of 450 morgs: 420 morgs of arable farm and garden land, 7 morgs of meadows, and 23 morgs of barren parceled land. There are 12 brick buildings, 5 wooden buildings, and 14 1/2 field crop rotations.
The village of Kalinowiec has 15 settlements on 17 morgs of cultivated land.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol.3, p.681].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al’s Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.
1) a village in Pilzno county. In 1345 King Kazimierz granted Mikol~aj Kerstan a forest on the river Kamienica for settling a village by that name under terms of a Magdeburg charter. After 16 years of freedom from rent the settlers were to pay a ferton* of rent apiece. The soltys [district official] receives 2 lans with an inn and a mill. There is one lan for the church and one for pasture-land. The total is 60 Franconian-measure lans. In 1353 the King bestowed this village on one of his most deserving knights (“Kodeks malopolski,” III, 60, 88). In 1536, the property of the Tyniec monastery, it had 14 peasants, 1 croft, a wojt property [property given a wo jt or village headman for him to use to raise food, rent out, etc.], an inn (2 grzywnas of rent) and a mill.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw 1883
Submitted by: This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the November 1997 issue of “Polish Footprints,” the publication of the Polish Genealogical Society of Texas, and appears here with express permission of the PGS-TX. (Nov 1997)
Link to PGST translation – text and photos.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw. Translated by Martin Kurtin.
Current administrative location: Kamieniec, Gmina Koneck, Powiat Aleksandrów, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Kamieniec, Powiat Nieszawa, Gubernia Warszawske, Vistula Land, Russian Empire.
2) A village located in powiat Nieszawa and gmina Bądkowo. Kamieniec belongs to the Łowiczek Parish.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol.3, p.748].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al’s Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.
Current administrative location: Karczyn, Gmina Inowrocław, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Karczyn, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
1) A village located in powiat Inowrocław. There are 10 houses with 105 inhabitants (all Catholics). There are 42 inhabitants that are illiterate. The post office, telegraph office, and railway station are located about 11 kilometers away in Inowrocław.
2) A dominium located in powiat Inowrocław. The Karczyn dominium has an area of land equal to 3516 morgs. The Karczyn dominium has 10 houses with 182 inhabitants (167 Catholics and 15 Evangelical Protestants). There are 127 inhabitants that are illiterate. Karczyn is owned by Józef Kościelski. M.St.
The entry did not list the village’s parish. The Góra Parish is located about 3-4 kilometers away.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol.3, p.838].
Translated by Al Wierzba, December 2009. Originally posted on Al’s Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.
A settlement in Augustow county, Barglow gmina and parish. It lies 16 versts [17 km.] from Augustow, and has 1 house and 1 inhabitant. [No author named].
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1882,Volume 4, page 854].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 2002 Rodziny.
An estate with a mill on the stream Zbrzyca, in the county of Chojnice, in a sandy and forested area. In size it consists of 3876 morgs. There are 17 buildings and 9 families. 115 Catholics, 2 Lutherans. The parish and school is in Lesno, the post office is in Brusy. Earlier it belonged to the Tuchola starosta-ship. In the lustration of 1664 we read that Kaszuba Mlyn (Mill) paid a rent of 92 zlote. The miller was obligated to guard the virgin forest and wild bees nests therein as he marks order, according to the railroad. In 1860 the owner was Jan Glowczewski.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego – Warsaw 1883
Translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA, [email protected] (Feb 2003)
Current administrative location: Kawęczyn, Gmina Gniewkowo, Powiat Inowrocław, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland.
Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Kawentschin, Kreis Inowroclaw, Regierungsbezirk Bromberg, Provinz Posen, Kaiserlich Deutsches Reich.
1) A dominium located in powiat Inowrocław. The Kawęczyn dominium, including Grabie, had an area of 2745 morgs of open land. Kawęczyn has 8 houses with 153 inhabitants (121 Catholics and 32 Evangelical Protestants). There are 67 inhabitants that are illiterate. The post office and telegraph office are located in Murzynno (German name: Morin), which is about 4 kilometers away . The railway station is located in Gniewkowo (German name: Argenau), which is about 9 kilometers away.
The Slownik entry for Kawęczyn did not list a parish, but according to the Family History Library Catalog entry for the Grabie Parish, Kawęczyn (Kawentschin) belonged to the Grabie Parish.
Source: Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego – Warsaw [1895, vol.3, p.916].
Translated by Al Wierzba, November 2009. Originally posted on Al’s Polish-American Genealogy Research Blog.
In German, Exin.
In old documents it is also known as “Krcenia”, a city in the powiat of Szubin. The village of Kcynia is located in a hilly region, on one of the highest points in the Grand Duchy of Poznan. Because the surrounding ground is lower the city is often exposed to the winds, the soil in the area is a thick clay like substance, under which is found a layer of gravel.
In the area beneath Kcynia there is neither flowing or standing water and there are few water wells ; therefore in the summer a shortage of water often occurs;
There are four communities in addition to Kcynia Miasto (The City of Kcynia): Kcynia-settlement and three granges: Karmelin, Stahlberg and Wydartowo.
In the year 1871 there were about 254 houses, 2618 inhabitants, 605 Protestant, 1528 Catholics and 8 of other Christian beliefs and 477 Jews. In the year 1875 there were only 2591 inhabitants. In Kcynia, there were the headquarters of the district and also a Customs Office. The Catholic Parish Church was in the deanery of Kcynia.
The Protestant Church was in the Dioceses of Szubin. A synagogue also existed in Kcynia. There was a Catholic Seminary for the future teachers with a preparatory institute and an elementary school “kilkoklasowa” (Editors Note 1). There were 645 illiterates.
Trade and commerce at Kcynia has been lively over the ages, it is in present times more modest in dimension, dealing in horses, cattle and cereal grains.
An important occupation in the area is the manufacture of pottery because of the availability of good clay in the region. For this same reason there are brick works in the town and in the region that produce brick and clay drain pipes.
Located here is a Post Office of the second class and a telegraph; a postal service center for the area “poczthalterya”, (Editors Note 2) personal mail from Nak?o passed through Kcynia for Wagrowiec, and from Kcynia for Gniezno; as did written mail for Gromadno and for Retkowo; There is a Railroad Station in Nak?o (Nakel), 18 km distant.
In the year 1811 Kcynia had 243 houses and 1411 inhabitants; in the year 1831 about 214 houses and 1834 inhabiants; in the year 1837 about 2074 inhabitants. From April 1842, there were four two day fairs: with stalls for horses and cattle.
Apart from the Parish Church, consecrated to St Egidius and funded by Wladyslawa Herman (1079-1102), there is still in existance a second church with an old Monastery of the Carmelite monks and a chapel containing a miraclous painting that attracts many pilgrims.
In the year 1262 Boleslaw, Duke of Wielkopolska granted a charter to Kcynia under the Madgeburg laws: the city administered an area from Poznan to Gniezno. In Kcynia during the 13th century Dukes Boleslaw and Przemyslaw of Wielkopolska negotiated with their uncle Swietopelk Duke of Pomerania a treaty to be able to regain the castle at Nak?o and control of the area to Poles.
In times past Kcynia was the capital of the powait (district) under the jurisdiction of the general of Wielkopolska. It was also a place of annual Calissian nobility meetings. Resided also at Kcynia a “starosta niegrodowy” Editors note 3″ a kind of district leader,
In the year 1441 a great fire destroyed the whole city; Almost all of the houses were rebuilt of stone, but by the 18th Century the area was in a state of decline.
Raczynski in his Memories of Wielkopolska ( 11 p 392) mentions the city in the 16th century and its considerable commerce. When in the year 1594 Sigismund (Zygmunt III) Vasa returned from Sweden he passed through the area, in Kcynia trade and craftsmen asked him to guarantee their profits from business, endangered by Scottish craftsmen who settled in the area.
In the year 1772 the city came under Prussian dominance. Kcynia, as a district of the Calissian voivodship, was a center of political, administrative and judicial authority for the area, according to the lists from the year 1661 the city encompasses: Kcynia, Miesciska and the villages of Demblowo, Borzatew and Wiela.