I received a request from a reader named Louise for information about the Polish village of Bobin where she thinks her Bobiński ancestors originated . I looked up information about the village in the gazetteer Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) and found two entries.
Słownik Geograficzny Entry for Bobin
Source: Source: Sulimierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1880, Volume I, page 256.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Bobin. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
    Bobin, 1.) a village on the Szreniawa [River], Pińczowski Powiat, Kościelec Gmina, Bobin Parish . An extensive village halfway on the road from Proszowice to Koszyce . It includes a stone parish church; there is a beautiful park of the estate on the Dzreniawa River, a shelter for brood hens and the lame (?), and an elementary school . In the year 1827 there were 57 homes and 273 residents here . The parish of Bobin belongs to the Pińczowski deanery and has a total of 1227 souls . 2.) Bobin- Mierzejewo, a village in the Ostrołęcki Powiat, Czwerwin Gmina, and Gaworowo Parish; the population of the manor is 58 and the extent is 120 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres].
                   Bronisław Chlebowski
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