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Re: Grand Trunk RR

Henryk — Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:48 pm

Author: Henryk

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 12:48 pm

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-1865-1922/Pages/list.aspx?Year=1893&=&p_ID=15
List of ships arriving in May. Links to passenger lists. can not be searched by surname.

Re: Grand Trunk RR

dnowicki — Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:42 am

Author: dnowicki

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:42 am

Richard,

If you've not already seen www.collectionscanada.gc.ca that site may be a useful place to begin your search for passenger manifests and perhaps for border crossing info.

Dave

Re: Grand Trunk RR

rsowa — Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:44 am

Author: rsowa

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:44 am

Thanks Dave and all! That sure clears up one of my issues!

To complete the picture, Tomasz Ziolkowski married Weronica (Bejenka) Wilkosz on 12 Feb 1899 St Joseph Church, Chicago, Illinois. His parents names were also listed there. So the record Dave found is certainly his. They went on to have three children. Weronica's first husband, Walenty Wilkosz had died in 1895.

One of Weronica's children from her first marriage, Francisca Wilkosz married Anton Machalski in 1912. Anton would go on to become my father's (Chester Stanley Sowa) Godfather in 1920.

Now I need to find the Canadian immigration info.

Thanks again,
Richard

Re: Grand Trunk RR

dnowicki — Sun Jun 08, 2014 8:48 am

Author: dnowicki

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 8:48 am

Richard,
It turns out that your Tomasz Ziolkowski was born in Powiat Slupecki. Slupca Genealogy (www.slupcagenealogy.com) has indexed vital records from that area and Tomasz Ziolowski, born on 12/16/1866 in Golkow in the parish of Slupca of parents Jozef and Katarzyna nee Jarzabek appears on that index. The index lists the LDS films which contain the record of his birth as Microfilm #1221134 Item #7 and Item #8 and Microfilm #1191325 Item #10. The record appears in several places because duplicate copies of the registration records were filmed.

Dave

Re: Grand Trunk RR

sirdan — Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:34 am

Author: sirdan

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 3:34 am

Hello Richard.
I'm no t 100% sure, but believe that Gołkowo that You lookig for is Gołkowo http://www.gorzno.pl/images/stories/mapagminagorzno.jpg in (today Poland) gmina Górzno, powiat Brodnica https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go%C5%82kowo_%28wojew%C3%B3dztwo_kujawsko-pomorskie%29 Very small village, the closer to Russian partition than other Gołkowo villages. The doubt is that Gołkowo on 1866 was in Poland not Russia, even later time was under Prussian Partition. But i found a thread on polish forum that somebody tried to translate a marriage record from 1887 Szczutowo, right next to Gołkowo (same parish Świedziebnia?) and this record was written in Cyrilic. This is a some mystery for me why is that. There are also some Ziolkowskis listed on free online Świedziebnia parish records.
Further search shows that Świedziebnia parish documents are written in various languages and are stored in two places: in Toruń National Archives and in Płock Diocese Archives. Acording to this http://www.szpejankowski.eu/index.php/metryki-wykazy-osob/102.html and following this http://www.szpejankowski.eu/images/stories/wpThumbnails/Swiedziebnia/swiedziebnia_un_1855-1878.pdf there is no Tomasz Ziolkowski/Ziółkowski so i don't know how it was helpful. Maybe at some point of time Gołkowo belonged to Górzno parish or we talk abou different Gołkowo.

Yep, after another search here is a brief story of Górzno http://www.gorzno.republika.pl/rozbiory.html#3 and it states that School in Gołkowo was under Russian Partition "SZKOŁA w GOŁKOWIE - zabór rosyjski". Actually the village was on the border of two partitions..

Re: Grand Trunk RR

dnowicki — Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:00 am

Author: dnowicki

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:00 am

Richard,

The Slownik geograficzny has entries for Golkowo found in Tom II strona 674 and Tom XV cz I strona 515 and Mapa Szukacz (mapaszukacz.pl) lists three locations with that name. Two would have been in the Russian Partition, one in Powiat Slupski and another in Powiat Rypinski. In contemporary Poland the one in Powiat Slupecki is in Wielkopolskie and Powiat Rypinski is in Kujawsko-Pomorskie. The attached map of Powiat Slupecki (part of the Congress Kingdom) from 1907 shows Golkowo just to the South of Slupca.

Good luck in your quest.

Dave

Grand Trunk RR

rsowa — Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:47 am

Author: rsowa

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:47 am

Here's a recent discovery of mine that added a new twist to my research. These records are for Tomasz Ziolkowski, who was the second husband of my paternal great aunt. When naturalized he was working at the Union Stockyards and was living in the area "Back of the Yards".

All of the previous immigration records I have found for my ancestors have been from passenger ships. The records below are the first time I have found one of them arriving via railroad from Canada. I have tried without success to find any records for Tomasz Ziolkowski immigrating into Canada, nor any immigration records for his arrival in Detroit.

I would appreciate any advice on where I can find his immigration records into Canada or those for his arrival in Detroit. Also, I would like to figure out what his actual birthplace was.

Between these two documents, it's clear he left Montreal, Canada on 30 May 1893 via the Grand Trunk Railroad and arrived in Detroit, Michigan on 31 May 1893.

His 1913 Declaration of Intention indicates his birth village as "Golkowg" Russia. However, the Petition for Naturalization lists it as "Golkowo". I haven't been able to find either one on any maps, but have found Golcowa, which is about 10 km south of Rzeszow, and would probably have been in Galicia...not the Russian partition. So I suspect that is not the same town he reported as his birthplace.

Thanks in advance,
Richard