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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSlownik Entry for Butrymonys<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\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)<\/em> – Warsaw 1880, Volume I, page 484.\u00a0 Text in Polish, translated by Stephen J. Danko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny<\/em> entry for Butrymonys<\/a>. The entry, translated from the Polish, states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Butryma\u0144ce<\/strong> 1.) a little town in the Troki Powiat [District], on the Pins\u00f3wek River, 54 versts [1 verst = 1.0668 kilometers] from Troki, 115 versts distant from Wilno [Vilnius] . There is a wooden Catholic church under the name of the Redeemer, erected by the Reverend Jezierski, a sister parish to Punia: 1834 souls . Butryma\u0144ce is famous for its fair and for the manufacture of gingerbread . There are 2400 inhabitants . It is the property of Count J\u00f3zef Tyszkiewicz; in the year 1850 it was the property of the Bogateks, the Wnorowskis, and the Morawskis . The township of Butryma\u0144ce totals 521 houses, 6798 peasants under wages, the local government is in Butryma\u0144ce . The township consists of 7 rural districts and 73 villages . The districts are: 1) Butryma\u0144ce, 2) Ajciuny, 3) Punie, 4) Girejka\u0144ce, 5) Kr\u0105\u017cn\u0144ce, 6) Skrejciany, 7) Piwoszuny . The circumference of the village of Butryma\u0144ce totals in its area the little village of Butryma\u0144ce, the villages of Gryszka\u0144ce, Piesku\u0144ce, P\u0142asowniki, Kasperzyszki, Trokieniki, Ma\u017cu\u0144ce; the area of Rej\u017c . Butryma\u0144ce has a post office on the Koszendary-Hanuszyszki road. S\u0142ownik Entry for Liki\u0161k\u0117s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n SOURCE: 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)<\/em> – Warsaw 1884, Volume V, page 230. Text in Polish, translated by Stephen J. Danko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click on the link for a PDF copy of the S\u0142ownik Geograficzny<\/em> entry for Liki\u0161k\u0117s<\/a>. The entry, translated from the Polish, states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Likiszki,<\/strong> a village in the township of Butryma\u0144ce, Trocki Powiat [District], the 4th administrative circuit, 48 versts [1 verst = 1.0668 kilometers] from Troki, 5 homes, 42 inhabitants of which 41 are Catholic, and 1 is Orthodox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The S\u0142ownik<\/em> generally indicates the location of the parish church, and for Butrymonys (Butryma\u0144ce), it appears that the parish is located in Butrymonys itself, although there is a reference to a sister parish in Punia.\u00a0 Oddly enough, there is no reference to the location of the parish church for Liki\u0161k\u0117s (Likiszki).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, the reason there are two spellings for the names of these villages is simply that the current locations are spelled in Lithuanian, but the S\u0142ownik<\/em> spellings are Polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My Chmielewski ancestors were from the Lithuanian villages of Butrymonys and Liki\u0161k\u0117s. I’m not sure if the Chmielewskis were Polish or Lithuanian, but given the surnames, it’s likely they were Poles who settled in Lithuania during the time when the … Continue reading
2.) Butryma\u0144ce,<\/strong> a village in the Lidzki Powiat, the Catholic church of Saint Michael is there, erected of wood by the Baron Schrotter, a chapel of Bieniakoski.
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