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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the Che\u0142chy 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 16 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for Che\u0142chy<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Sulimierski, Filip, Bronis\u0142aw Chlebowski, and W\u0142adys\u0142aw Walewski, 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 1880, Volume I, page 552.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for Che\u0142chy<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n Che\u0142chy, the names of ten villages in the Mak\u00f3w Powiat, and in the Gmina and Parish of Karniewo, with which lie: 5) Che\u0142chy Cibory and There are several other entries for places named Che\u0142chy, including one in the Szczuczsyn Powiat and three in East Prussia.<\/p>\n 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 Che\u0142chy is significant in my family history because some of my Chodkowski and Burski relatives lived there. The village belonged to the parish of Karniewo. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
\n1) Che\u0142chy I\u0142owe (erroneously called Silowe), together with Mosaki I\u0142owe, in other words I\u0142\u00f3wek, extends 530 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres], the property of the Che\u0142chowskis;
\n2) Che\u0142chy Klimki, extends 267 morgs, of which 12 morgs belong to 4 peasants, 255 morgs belong to the manor; the land is mostly pastures; 195 morgs under the plow;
\n3) Che\u0142chy Kmiece, extends 692 morgs; 604 morgs of grange land, 88 morgs of peasant land, and 30 homesteads;
\n4) Che\u0142chy Chabdzyno, besides the grange lands, it includes 12 morgs of peasant lands and 7 homesteads;<\/p>\n
\n6) Che\u0142chy Dzierskie, constitute one whole [hypoteczna?] about one half mile from Mak\u00f3w; 165 morgs of space, 5 morgs belong to the peasants, of the grange lands, 49 morgs are in wheat, 94 morgs in rye, 10 morgs in meadows and pastures, and 7 morgs are unused;
\n7) Che\u0142chy Jakusy.
\nIn the Sypniewo Gmina and G\u0105sewo Parish lie:
\n8) Che\u0142chy Falki and
\n9) Che\u0142chy Seborym, having the municipal court for the second okr\u0119g in Krasnosielc and post office in Mak\u00f3w.
\nThe first seven villages named Che\u0142chy also use the same post office but belong to the municipal court for the first okr\u0119g in Mak\u00f3w.
\nIn the year 1827, all these villages together had 72 homes and 450 residents .\u00a0A.T.
\n2.) Che\u0142chy,\u00a0 a village in the Szczuczyn Powiat, Szczuczyn Gmina, and Nied\u017cwiadno Parish. In 1827, there were a total of 14 homes and 79 residents.
\nChe\u0142chy, Chelchen in German, 1.) a village in the \u0141\u0119ck Powiat, below E\u0142k [East Prussia], 2.) Che\u0142chy, a village in the Olecko Powiat, below Kowale [East Prussia], 3.) Che\u0142chy, a possession in the Olecko Powiat, post office in Dunajek [East Prussia].<\/p>\n