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Tiggybutton

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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:58 am Post subject: kalus

Any information about the surname of Kalus. Family appear to be living in Katowice during the early 20th century. No idea where it originated or if it is actually a Polish name. It has been suggested that the family may have originated from Ukraine because there is a place called Kalusz in the Ukraine.

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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: kalus

Tiggybutton wrote:

It is a Polish name:
http://www.herby.com.pl/
Kalus 1301
Wa:19, BB:16, Cz:139, Gd:9, JG:8, Ka:771, Ki:7, Kn:3, Kr:1, Lg:28, Lu:18, Łd:3, NS:3, Ol:7, Op:135, Ra:31, Sr:21, Sł:2, Su:15, Sz:2, Tb:1, Wb:23, Wr:35, ZG:4

Mostly in slaskie province:
http://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?search_lastname=kalus&search_lastname2=&from_date=&to_date=&rpp1=&bdm=&w=&op=se&lang=pol&exac=1

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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:51 am Post subject:

Tiggybutton,

Some additional information to what Gilberto wrote:

Kalus or Kałus comes from Czech personal name Kalous (in Czech kalous is “the long-eared owl”.

In 2002 there were 1489 individuals using the surname Kalus living in Poland. Detailed map of the surname distribution can be found here: https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Kalus. There were only 291 people bearing the surname Kałus, see the map: https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Ka%C5%82us. As Gilberto wrote, most of them in Śląskie province.

Listen how this surname is pronounced in Polish (click on the “Listen” button): https://translate.google.com/#pl/en/Kalus and https://translate.google.com/#pl/en/Ka%C5%82us.

Click here http://polishorigins.com/?s=Kalus&x=0&y=0 to check what can be found about Kalus surname in the PolishOrigins Databases.

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Tiggybutton

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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:39 am Post subject:

Many thanks Gilberto and Aga. That's really helpful.

I'm actually trying to trace my father's family who were living in Szopienice in Katowice in the 1930's and 40's (and probably earlier). My grandfather Johannes (or Jan) I believe was the director of some coalmines in that area. He and his wife Elzbieta had three daughters, Ruth, Kristina and Hannah (Hanya) as well as my father Leonard. Elzbieta's maiden name I think was Wons or Has. I think I read somewhere that these two surnames were the same but one may have been Polish and the other German. Can anyone help?

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