{"id":8094,"date":"2010-05-25T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2010-05-25T23:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T07:00:04","slug":"the-polish-village-of-wegra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8094","title":{"rendered":"The Polish Village of W\u0119gra"},"content":{"rendered":"

The village of W\u0119gra is significant in my family history because it was the location where some of my Chodkowski cousins were married.<\/p>\n

\"Austrian<\/a><\/p>\n

Austrian Military Map of the W\u0119gra Area – 1910<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary, Sheet 38-53, M\u0142awa. Online http:\/\/lazarus.elte.hu\/hun\/digkonyv\/topo\/200e\/39-53.jpg<\/a>; downloaded 25 May 2010.<\/p>\n

\"S\u0142ownik<\/a><\/p>\n

S\u0142ownik Geograficzny Entry for W\u0119gra<\/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 256.<\/p>\n

Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny entry for W\u0119gra<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n

W\u0119gra<\/strong>, a village and three granges on the W\u0119gierka River in the Przasnysz Powiat, Chojnowo Gmina, and W\u0119gra Parish, 8 \u00c2\u00bd versts [0.66 miles per verst] from Przasnysz. It includes a parish church of wood, the municipal offices, a brickyard, 28 homes, 300 residents, and a total area of 1152 morgs [in the Russian partition 1 morg = 1.388 acres]. In the year 1827 there were 26 homes and 212 residents. In the year 1880 the W\u0119gra grange letter A extended 370 morgs: 318 morgs of arable land and gardens, 30 morgs of meadows, 10 morgs of pastures, 11 morgs of wastelands, 1 stone building and 11 wooden buildings. The village of W\u0119gra letter B included 2 settlements and 2 morgs. The W\u0119gra grange letter D extended 371 morgs: 280 morgs of arable land and gardens, 74 morgs of meadows, 9 morgs of pastures, 8 morgs of wastelands, and 11 wooden buildings. The date the church and parish were erected is unknown. They already existed in the year 1567. Bart\u0142omiej W\u0119gierski, the owner of the property, raised the current wooden church in the year 1730. In the year 1567, according to the conscription records, the village consisted of noble parts: two after 2 w\u0142\u00f3ki [one w\u0142\u00f3ka equaled about 16.8 hectares] paid for 5 gardens, 1 w\u0142\u00f3ka for 1 garden, 6 \u00c2\u00bd w\u0142\u00f3ki for 3 gardens. (\u00c5\u00b9r\u00f3d\u0142a dziejowe volume XVI, page 340). In the parish which belonged to the Przasnysz Deanery, there were 2600 souls.
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The notation (\u00c5\u00b9r\u00f3d\u0142a dziejowe volume XVI, page 340) refers to:<\/p>\n

Pawi\u0144ski, Adolf. 1892. Mazowsze. Polska XVI wieku pod wzgl\u0119dem geograficzno-statystycznym, t. 5. Warszawa: sk\u0142. g\u0142. w Ksi\u0119garni Gebethnera i Wolffa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This publication is available online at the Digital Library of Wielkopolska<\/a>.<\/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

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