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Re: Alicz surname

dnowicki — Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:22 am

Author: dnowicki

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:22 am

chiguy60 wrote:

I have been trying to do some research on my family history and have not been able to find much in Europe.
I know my Great Grandfather John Alicz was born in 1863 and was from Prussia. He came to the US in 1866.
He married my Great Grandmother in 1882 Chicago but prior to that there is no record of him in Chicago. The only information I can find is a John Alicz that lived with his family in Milwaukee from 1866 to 1880.
His parents names were Paul Alicz and Nepomuceno Polazyk and I was able to find a marriage record for them in April 1853 at a Catholic church in Wawelno (Lindenwald), Posen Province, Prussia.
I have not found any other information on that surname other than for a Martinus Alicz baptismal record in Slovakia in 1812.

Can anyone tell me about that name and where they may be from?

Hi,

If you've not obtained a copy of the actual marriage record, some civil transcripts of records for Wąwelno are available on a LDS film. The records are in columnar format and the headings are in German but the names of the individuals are in their Polish form. Such marriage records usually contain info about the place where the bride and groom were born and baptized as well as the names of their parents. Catholic marriages usually took place in the parish of the bride so Nepomucena was from that parish. In fact, the birth of a person with that name is indexed for that parish in 1835 and the birth records are on the same film as marriages and thus it would probably be worthwhile renting the film.

The original copies of the parish books are civil transcripts and are housed in an archive in Germany where the LDS film was made. The area where Wąwelno is located was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which was seized by Prussia during the First Partition of Poland in 1772. Today it is once again Polish territory and is located in Województwo (Province) Kujawsko-Pomorske. The marriage record in the Latin version of the parish sacramental registers is also found in the archives of the Diocese of Pelpin but since those records have not been filmed it would be easier to use the filmed civil transcripts for research purposes.

Wishing you success in your research,

Dave

Re: Alicz surname

Agnieszka Pawlus — Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:32 am

Author: Agnieszka Pawlus

Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:32 am

chiguy60,

I have checked the Poznań projekt (Marriage indexing for the 19th century within the former Prussian province of Posen) and I found the marriage between Paulus (Paweł) Alicz and Nepomucena Polaszczyk, in the parish of Wąwelno, in 1853 http://poznan-project.psnc.pl/index.php?lang=en.

Here is Wąwelno on the map of Poland: https://goo.gl/maps/wB7evmW1uio.

Re: Alicz surname

prost — Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:14 pm

Author: prost

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:14 pm

Check on FamilySearch.org. There are over 10,000 hits for John Alicz.

Alicz surname

chiguy60 — Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:47 pm

Author: chiguy60

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:47 pm

I have been trying to do some research on my family history and have not been able to find much in Europe.
I know my Great Grandfather John Alicz was born in 1863 and was from Prussia. He came to the US in 1866.
He married my Great Grandmother in 1882 Chicago but prior to that there is no record of him in Chicago. The only information I can find is a John Alicz that lived with his family in Milwaukee from 1866 to 1880.
His parents names were Paul Alicz and Nepomuceno Polazyk and I was able to find a marriage record for them in April 1853 at a Catholic church in Wawelno (Lindenwald), Posen Province, Prussia.
I have not found any other information on that surname other than for a Martinus Alicz baptismal record in Slovakia in 1812.

Can anyone tell me about that name and where they may be from?