{"id":23509,"date":"2024-11-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23509"},"modified":"2024-11-24T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T20:52:49","slug":"the-death-of-wincenty-aleksandrowicz-a-soldier-who-died-in-the-january-uprising-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23509","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Wincenty Aleksandrowicz – A Soldier Who Died in the January Uprising – 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The death of Wincenty Aleksandrowicz was reported in the metrical records for Szwelice parish in 1865. His birth was recorded in the metrical records for Chotom\u00f3w in 1835, and his marriage to Julianna \u015alubowska was recorded in the metrical records for Dzier\u017cenin in 1858. He was, therefore, not from the Szwelice parish. His death record, although recorded on 14 Jan 1865, states that Wincenty died in battle in the fields of Czarnost\u00f3w on 18 September 1863, the same day that Antoni Myszkiewicz died<\/a> in battle in the same place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Antoni Myszkiewicz, Wincenty Aleksandrowicz apparently died during the January Uprising which began on 22 January 1863 and continued into 1864. Most death records in the Congress Kingdom of Poland from this time period do not mention the place of burial, but this one states that Wincenty was buried in the cemetery in Szwelice. This is the first Polish death record I’ve seen that actually mentions a funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Death and Burial Record for Wincenty Aleksandrowicz – 1863\/1865<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Polish, the record states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Szwelice 3
Dzia\u0142o si\u0119 we wsi koscielny Szwelicach dnia czternastego stycznia tysi\u0105c osmset szes\u0107dziesi\u0105tego pi\u0105tego roku o godzinie dziesi\u0105teg z rana. Stawi\u0142 si\u0119 Wiktor Wyrzykowski wyrobnik lat dwadzie\u015bcia a dziwi\u0105t mai\u0105cy w \u0141adach zamieszka\u0142y, i Mateusza K\u0119dzierski wyrobnik lat pi\u0119dziesi\u0105t licz\u0105cy w Przewodowie osiad\u0142y, i o\u015bwiadczyli nam ju\u017c by\u0142o na ocznemi \u015bwiadkowi smierci, i pogrzebu Wincentego Alexandrowicza lat maj\u0105cego dwadziescia pi\u0119c poleg\u0142ego wboiu na polah czarnostowskich dnia 18 wrzesnia 1863 ktory pozostawil zon\u0105 Juli\u0105 z \u015alubowskich. Po przekonaniu si\u0119 na ocznie o zajsciu Wincentego Alexandrowicz pochowane na cmentarza Szwelickim. Akt ten stawai\u0105cym przeczytany i przez nas tylko podpisany zosta\u0142.
Ksi\u0105dz Ko\u0142akowski Proboszcz Szwelicach, Utrzymuj\u0105cy Akta stanu Cywilnego<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated into English, the document reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Szwelice 3
This happened in the church-owned village of Szwelice on the January 14, 1865 at 10 o’clock in the morning. Wiktor Wyrzykowski, a 29-year-old worker living in \u0141ady, and Mateusz K\u0119dzierski, a 50-year-old worker living in Przewodowo, appeared and told us that they had already witnessed the death and funeral of Wincenty Alexandrowicz, 25 years old, who died in battle on the fields of Czarnost\u00f3w on September 18, 1863, leaving behind his wife Julia n\u00e9e \u015alubowska. After being convinced of the incident, Wincenty Alexandrowicz was buried in the Szwelice cemetery. This document was read to the declarants and signed only by us.
Father Ko\u0142akowski, Pastor of Szwelice, Maintaining the Civil Status Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death of Wincenty Aleksandrowicz was reported in the metrical records for Szwelice parish in 1865. His birth was recorded in the metrical records for Chotom\u00f3w in 1835, and his marriage to Julianna \u015alubowska was recorded in the metrical records … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-67b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23514,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23509\/revisions\/23514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}