Ujma
Current administrative location: Ujma, Gmina Zakrzewo, Powiat Aleksandrów, Województwo Kujawsko–Pomorskie, Poland. Administrative location in 1895 (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego): Ujma, Powiat Nieszawa, Gubernia Warszawske, Vistula Land, Russian Empire.
Small (Mała) and Large (Duża) Ujma were both named Ugyma and Uyma. Both villages are located near Bachorza, in powiat Nieszawa and gmina Sędzin. Ujma Mała belongs to the parish of Kościelna Wies and Ujma Duża belongs to the parish of Siniarzewo. The villages are located at a distance of 16 verst from Nieszawa. Ujma Mała has a total of 94 inhabitants and an area of 528 morgs. Ujma Duża has 168 inhabitants and an area of 1272 morgs. In 1827, Ujma Mała had 8 homes with 68 inhabitants and Ujma Duża had 18 homes with 185 inhabitants.
“Mstivius dux Pomeraniae”, in 1288, at Repka (near Bydgoszcz), Jacób the Arch Bishop of Gnieźno, exchanged his village of Gardna (which is above the lake), for this village, “in Kujawy, above the large Bachorza River, Ujma Mała, it was declared”. In 1292, Eufrozyna, the widow of Duke Kazimierz of Kujawy, received in an inheritance from Mszczug, Duke of Pomorskie, these villages and gave them to the Gnieźno church. The tithes intended for the Gnieźno administrative office were for the salary of Janisław, the Arch Bishop of Gnieźno. In 1354, documents listed “two Ujma”, consequently Wielka Ujma passed into the possession of the Arch Bishop (Kod. Wielkp., 620, 688, 116, 1354). “The village of Ujma is ours” said Jacób the Arch Bishop of Gnieźno, dated from a publication on April 2, 1320 (Kod. dypl. pol., II, 217). In 1557, the village of “Huima Major” was in the parish of Siniarzewo, was the property of the Arch Bishop of Gnieźno, paid for 28 łan, had 3 rentals, 6 tenant farmers, and 3 craftsmen. The village of “Huima Minor” was in the Kościelna Wies Parish, paid for 12 łan, had 1 tenant farmer, and 1 craftsmen (Pawiń., Wielp., II 6, 13).
Translated by Al Wierzba, June 2009.
Uniszowa
Uniszowa, a village in Tarnow powiat, located on the road from Tuchow (8.7 km. away) to Ryglice (3 km. away). It is situated in a hilly, wooded area on a stream that is a tributary on the right side of the Biala river where it joins it at Kielanowice Gorne. The village has 49 houses and 269 inhabitants. Its registered area is divided into two manor farmsteads, Uniszowa and Kozlowka (3 houses, 42 inhabitants).
The village has 305 Roman Catholic and 6 Jewish inhabitants. The landed property, owned by Franciszek Zabecki, consists of 124 morgs of farmland, 7 of meadows, 390 sazens of orchards, 6 morgs of pastures, 150 morgs of forests, and 1,101 sazens of built-up plots of land. The minor estates consist of 292 morgs of farmland, 28 of meadows and orchards, 51 of pastures, and 6 of forests. Pilat’s Index ascribes the ownership of Kozlowka to a religious foundation, but does not specify its area. Dlugosz does not mention this village. In 1581 (according to Pawifiski, Malopolska, 113) Uniszowa belonged to Jan Kilanowski and had 2 1/2 peasant lans, 2 homesteads with land, 1 peasant who owned cattle, and 3 peasants who did not own cattle. It borders on Kielanowice Dolne to the west, Ryglice to the east, Bistuszowa to the south, and Zalasowa and Tuchow to the north. [Mac.-Vol. XII, p. 810]. Uniszowa, a village in Tarnow powiat, located on the road from Tuchow (8.7 km. away) to Ryglice (3 km. away). It is situated in a hilly, wooded area on a stream that is a tributary on the right side of the Biala river where it joins it at Kielanowice Gorne. The village has 49 houses and 269 inhabitants. Its registered area is divided into two manor farmsteads, Uniszowa and Kozlowka (3 houses, 42 inhabitants). The village has 305 Roman Catholic and 6 Jewish inhabitants. The landed property, owned by Franciszek Zabecki, consists of 124 morgs of farmland, 7 of meadows, 390 sazens of orchards, 6 morgs of pastures, 150 morgs of forests, and 1,101 sazens of built-up plots of land. The minor estates consist of 292 morgs of farmland, 28 of meadows and orchards, 51 of pastures, and 6 of forests.
Pilat’s Index ascribes the ownership of Kozlowka to a religious foundation, but does not specify its area.
Dlugosz does not mention this village. In 1581 (according to Pawifiski, Malopolska, 113) Uniszowa belonged to Jan Kilanowski and had 2 1/2 peasant lans, 2 homesteads with land, 1 peasant who owned cattle, and 3 peasants who did not own cattle. It borders on Kielanowice Dolne to the west, Ryglice to the east, Bistuszowa to the south, and Zalasowa and Tuchow to the north. [Mac.-Vol. XII, p. 810].
Submitted by: Robert Bator, Chicago, IL. Translated by Anna Pawlik (2001)
Ustronie
A manorial farmstead near the river Marycha in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 21 versts from the town of Sejny . There is one house and 6 inhabitants. The farmstead was until 1871 part of the manor of Holny Wolmera, with lands of 4267 morgs of which 1162 were arable, meadows 50 morgs, pasture 551 morgs, woodland 2489 morg ; coppice 4 morgs and barren 4 morgs. There were 4 wooden buildings and a las urzadzony, poklady torfu (tree nursery, …..peat??
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England (May 2004)
Uszew
Uszew (with Zawada), a village in the county of Brzesko, lies on the Uzwica river, which flows into the Vistula. It is on a hilly location surrounded by forests of beech trees. The soil is fairly fertile, and conducive to the growing of rye. The village once belonged to the Bishops of Kraków; it is prosperous and well built.
There was a Roman Catholic parish and a three-classroom school. The brick church with a steeple, was built to replace the one which burned down in 1806. The year the parish was formed is not known. However, according to the historian Długosz in his book Liber Beneficiorum, volume 2 page 276, he states that there was a wooden church in the village dedicated to “Wszyscy Święci” (All Saints). The parish belongs to the deanery of Brzesko.
Along with the manor house, there were 228 houses and 1577 inhabitants in the late 1880s. Of these 1541 were Catholics, 36 were Israelites. A large farmstead covered 288 morgen of farms, 27 morgen of meadows, 1512 gardens of produce, 3 morgen of pastures 244 morgen of forests and 378 small farms. Another farmstead covered 1092 morgen of farms, 216 morgen of gardens and meadows, 50 morgen of pastures and 94 morgen of forests. According to Długosz, in 1581 there were 18 fields belonging to small farmers later this figure shows only 11. One farmer had cattle, and the village also had one carpenter and a tavern/inn owner.
The high road leading from Brzesko to Tymowa ran through the village. The closest post office and telegraph station was located in the Goetz factory in Okocim, 3.7 kilometers distant. On the south Uszew borders Wólka Zawada; on the north lies Poręba Spytkowska (Spytkowice); to the south also lies Gnojnik and Zawada Wielka. On the west lies Chronów, and on the east through the woods lies Doły and Loniowa.
Translated from the Słownik Geograficzny by Helen Bienick of the PGS-CA