{"id":2171,"date":"2008-01-20T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/20\/the-year-was-1808\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T07:01:49","slug":"the-year-was-1808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2171","title":{"rendered":"The Year Was 1808"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the challenge from Lisa of <a title=\"100 Years in America\" href=\"http:\/\/100inamerica.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/snapshots-of-world-back-in-1908.html\">100 Years in America<\/a>, Donna\u00c2\u00a0of <a title=\"What's Past is Prologue\" href=\"http:\/\/pastprologue.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/17\/1808-where-was-your-family-200-years-ago\/\">What&#8217;s Past is Prologue<\/a> has issued a challenge to describe where our ancestors were 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a bit\u00c2\u00a0difficult for me, since I don&#8217;t know who all my ancestors were 200 years ago. Even so, the places where my ancestors were living were limited to three general areas: the\u00c2\u00a0Przemy\u015bl Powiat\u00c2\u00a0of Galicia, the\u00c2\u00a0Warsaw Departament\u00c2\u00a0of the Duchy of Warsaw, and the\u00c2\u00a0Vilna Guberniya\u00c2\u00a0of the Russian Empire.<\/p>\n<p>My paternal ancestors were all living in and around the parishes of Dubiecko and Dyl\u0105gowa in the Przemy\u015bl Powiat of Galicia. This area had been occupied by Austria since 05 Aug 1772 and, while they were ethnically Polish, they lived as citizens of Austria.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents, Wojciech Da\u0144ko and Marianna Jedli\u0144ska were living in Nienadowa, Galicia .\u00a0My 2nd great grandfather, Pawe\u0142 Da\u0144ko, was 9 years old and living with his parents in Nienadowa.<\/li>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents Andrzej Szyma\u0144ski and his wife Anna were also living in Nienadowa, Galicia. My 2nd great grandmother Zofia Szyma\u0144ska was born in about 1808 in Nienadowa.<\/li>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents Wojciech Sowa and Katarzyna Zalew were also living in Nienadowa, Galicia.<\/li>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents Wojciech Jach and Jadwiga Markowa were also living in Nienadowa, Galicia.<\/li>\n<li>My 2nd great grandfather Stanis\u0142aw Dziura was not yet born. His parents, whose identities I have still not discovered, were probably living in Sielnica, Galicia.<\/li>\n<li>My 2nd great grandmother Katarzyna Martowiczowa was not yet born. Her parents, whose identities I have still not discovered, were probably\u00c2\u00a0living in Sielnica, Galicia.<\/li>\n<li>My 2nd great grandfather Andrzej Jara was not yet born. His parents, whose identities I have still not discovered, were probably living in Nienadowa, Galicia.<\/li>\n<li>My 3rd great grandfather Micha\u0142 Matwij was probably living in Nienadowa, Galicia. I don&#8217;t know who his wife was, but she, too, was probably living in Nienadowa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My\u00c2\u00a0maternal grandfather&#8217;s ancestors were all living in and around the parish of Krasne in the Warsaw Departament of the Duchy of Warsaw .\u00a0In 1807, Napoleon had annexed this part of Poland, freeing it from occupation by Prussian Empire but making it dependent on France. These ancestors witnessed dramatic changes in their homeland as it passed from an independent Poland to Prussian\u00c2\u00a0control in 1795, then to\u00c2\u00a0French control\u00c2\u00a0in 1807, and finally to\u00c2\u00a0Russian control\u00c2\u00a0in 1815.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents Tomasz Niedzia\u0142kowski and Cecylia Chotkowska were living in Mosaki-Godacze, Duchy of Warsaw.<\/li>\n<li>My 3rd great grandparents Wojciech Milewski and Anna Malonka were living in Rukle, Duchy of Warsaw. My 2nd great grandmother Karolina Milewska was born in 1808 in Rukle.<\/li>\n<li>My\u00c2\u00a02nd great grandfather Wojciech Gutowski was not yet born. His parents, whose names I don&#8217;t know, were probably living in the Duchy of Warsaw.<\/li>\n<li>My 2nd great grandmother Anna Jab\u0142onowska was not yet born. Her parents, whose names I don&#8217;t know, were probably living in the Duchy of Warsaw.<\/li>\n<li>The ancestors of my great grandmother Ksawera Zygmuntowicz were probably living in the Duchy of Warsaw. I don&#8217;t know the names of any of her ancestors, but it is likely that her grandparents were living at the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been able to trace my maternal grandmother&#8217;s ancestors to what is now Lithuania .\u00a0In 1808, the area was part of the Vilna Guberniya of the Russian Empire, having been occupied by Russia during the first partition of Poland in 1772 .\u00a0These ancestors were ethnically Polish.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ancestors of my great grandparents Wincenty Chmielewski and Anastasia Wojnowska may have been living in the Wilna Guberniya of the Russian Empire. Or maybe not. I have not been able to identify any of their ancestors or trace their migrations. At some point, these ancestors\u00c2\u00a0lived in Poland and moved to Lithuania.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In looking over what I&#8217;ve written, I&#8217;ve discovered that two of my ancestors were born in 1808, and at least four of my ancestors living in 1808 were named Wojciech.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the challenge from Lisa of 100 Years in America, Donna\u00c2\u00a0of What&#8217;s Past is Prologue has issued a challenge to describe where our ancestors were 200 years ago. 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