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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the P\u0142oniawy Area – 1910<\/em><\/p>\n SOURCE: Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, Sheet 39-53, Ostrolecka. Online http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 08 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for P\u0142oniawy<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, and Filip Sulimierski, eds., S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Kr\u00f3lestwa Polskiego i Innych Kraj\u00f3w S\u0142owia\u0144skich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1887, Volume VIII, pages 309-310.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for P\u0142oniawy<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n P\u0142oniawy<\/strong>1.) a village in the Mak\u00f3w Powiat, Gmina and Parish of P\u0142oniawy, 12 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Mak\u00f3w. It includes a parish church of stone, an elementary school, a municipal office, a windmill, and a poultry farm. In the year 1827, it belonged to the parish of Podo\u015b and had 19 homes and 141 residents. The church and the parish were in erected in the year 1376 by Junosza, the owner of Zaborowa and P\u0142oniawy. In the year 1653, the pastor of P\u0142oniawy and the owner of the nearby village of Podo\u015b moved the parish in P\u0142oniawy to the chapel in Podo\u015b and it remained there until 1828. In the year 1828, the owner of P\u0142oniawy, J\u00f3zef M\u0142odzianowski erected a new stone church in P\u0142oniawy. In the year 1853 Walentyna \u0141ysi\u0144ska erected a stone church in the village of Podo\u015b. In this same parish, being 80 feet in altitude at its highest point in the village of Krzy\u015bewo Nadrzeczne, Waleryan Modzczy\u0144ski raised and completely finished a little stone church with three altars in the year 1883. The parish of P\u0142oniawy in the Mak\u00f3w Deanery has 3889 souls. In the year 1884, the property of P\u0142oniawy consisted of the granges of P\u0142oniawy, Zblicha, and Prace; the villages of P\u0142oniawy and Zblicha. The extent of its dominion included 1922 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres], 16 morgs of pastures, 87 morgs of forests, 23 morgs of wastelands, altogether 684 morgs; 9 stone buildings and 17 wooden buildings; the Zblicha grange included 488 morgs of arable land and gardens, 56 morgs of meadows, 29 morgs of pastures, 267 morgs of forests, and 18 morgs of wastelands, altogether 858 morgs; 2 stone buildings, 8 wooden buildings, an unsettled forest, and a windmill. The Prace grange, not connected with this property, consists of 380 morgs. The village of P\u0142oniawy has 49 settlers, with 182 morgs of land. The P\u0142oniawy Gmina has 4973 residents, extending 19,144 morgs; the municipal court for the second okr\u0119g in the settlement of Krasnosielc, about 7 versts from here. In the Gmina there are 1 distillery, a brewery, a few mills and windmills, a hairdresser, a pitch burner, and a brickyard. Included in the Gmina are 7 villages of the nobility: Babino Wielkie, Budzino, Chodkowo, Kobylin, Krzy\u017cewo, Obiecanowo, and Rogowo together with 14 villages of the peasantry: Cieci\u00f3rki, Go\u0142oniwy, Jaci\u0105\u017cek, \u0141\u0119g, M\u0142odzianowo, Ob\u0142udzino, P\u0142oniawy, Podo\u015b, Retka, Somtrzaska, Szlasy \u0141osino, Zacisze, Zawady, and Zblicha. The maps of the Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary and the entries in the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny were prepared at about the same time and make a good pair for studying places in and around the Congress Kingdom of Poland at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, a time period when the Eastern European ancestors of present-day Americans left their homelands for the United States.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The village of P\u0142oniawy is significant in my family history because P\u0142oniawy was the parish for the village of Chodkowo, the location in Poland in which many of my Chodkowski ancestors lived. The parish in Podo\u015b was moved to Ploniawy … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
\n2.) P\u0142oniawy<\/strong>Bramura, Mak\u00f3w Powiat, Ploniawy Gmina and Parish.
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