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<\/a><\/p>\nAustrian Military Map of the W\u0119grzynowo 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 24 May 2010.<\/p>\n S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for W\u0119grzynowo<\/em><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 Chlebowski, Bronis\u0142aw, Filip Sulimierski, 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 1893, Volume XIII, page 262.<\/p>\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for W\u0119grzynowo<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n 3.) W\u0119grzynowo<\/strong>, a village and grange [a large manorial farmstead] in Ciechan\u00f3w Powiat, Zalesie Gmina, and W\u0119grzynowo Parish, 28 versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Ciechan\u00f3w and 8 versts to the northwest of Wyszogrod on the Vistula River. It includes a wooden parish church, a brickyard, a tavern, 39 homes, and 345 residents. The grange includes 1370 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres]; it belongs to the property of Krasne (Count Krasi\u0144ski). The village has 39 settlements and 493 morgs. In the year 1827 there were 27 homes and 300 residents. Rogala of Wangrzinowo, the castellan of Zakroczym, probably wrote in this W\u0119grzynowo in the year 1464 (Kodeks dyplomatyczny Ksi\u0119stwa Mazowieckiego, page 11). The church and parish were erected here in the year 1398 by the Pastor Mdzewski. \u017bebrowski raised a new one in the year 1684. There were 1640 souls in the parish which belonged to the Ciechan\u00f3w Deanery (later, the Mak\u00f3w Deanery).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The notation (Kod. Maz., str. 11) or (Kodeks dyplomatyczny Ksi\u0119stwa Mazowieckiego, page 11) refers to:<\/p>\n Lubomirski, Tadeusz Jan. 1863. Kodeks Dyplomatyczny Ksi\u0119stwa Mazowieckiego, obejmuj\u0105cy Bulle Papie\u017c\u00f3w, Przywileje Krolo\u00cc\u0081w Polskich i Ksi\u0105\u017c\u0105t Mazowieckich, tudzie\u017c Nadamia tak korporacyj jako i os\u00f3b prywatnych<\/em>. Warszawa: Druk. Gazety Polskiej.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This publication is available online at the Digital Library of Wielkopolska<\/a>.<\/p>\n The place described in this entry is only one of at least 4 places in Poland called Mierz\u0119cin.<\/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 W\u0119grzynowo is significant in my family history because it was the location where some of my Chodkowski cousins were married. Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n