The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes many entries for Polish villages called Rostki. Two entries are for villages called Rostki-Kaptury and Rostki-Stróżne that belong to the parish of Szelków. Today, the village of Rostki-Kaptury is referred to simply as Kaptury, and the village of Rostki-Stróżne is referred to simply as Rostki.
Rostki-Kaptury, Rostki-Stróżne, and Surrounding Area – 1910
Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE
(http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/39-53.jpg: accessed 20 December 2025)
Source: Chlebowski, Bronisław and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1888, Volume IX, page 796-797.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entries for Rostki-Kaptury and Rostki-Stróżne. Translated from the Polish, the entries read:
4.) Rostki Kaptury, a village of nobility and peasants, and 5.) Rostki Stróżne, a village of nobility, Maków powiat, Sielc gmina, Szelków parish, 12 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from Maków. In 1827, Rostki Kaptury had 8 houses and 57 inhabitants; Rostki Stróżne had 12 houses and 70 inhabitants. The Rostki Kaptury estate (letter BE) in 1879 had an area of 384 mórgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres]: arable land and gardens 129 mórgs, meadows 38 mórgs, pastures 23 mórgs, forest 185 mórgs, uncultivated land 9 mórgs; 8 wooden buildings, unmanaged forest, brickyard, peat deposits. The village of R. Kaptury had 9 settlements, with an area of 56 mórgs.
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