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TYLKA

meghanrowan — Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:16 pm

Author: meghanrowan

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:16 pm

I have come across quite a few Tylkas in the area of Chocholow and Dzianicz - both are in the Nowy Targ district and very close to the Slovak border. One married into my Bafia family. Have discovered others who immigrated to the Mt Pleasant Pennsylvania area and then Chicago.
Supposedly Jan Tylka Kubiatka and his wife Anna Bafia contributed to the building of the church in Dzianicz
https://www.komoot.com/highlight/5143805
We were able to visit the two towns in July 2023.

Re: TYLKA

AndrewTylka — Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:55 pm

Author: AndrewTylka

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:55 pm

Thanks so much!

Re: TYLKA

BarbOslo — Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:50 pm

Author: BarbOslo

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:50 pm

AndrewTylka wrote:

BarbOslo wrote:

AndrewTylka wrote:

Hi barb,

I never knew this history of the village, that's very good information learned. I knew it had origins from the 1600s.

Do you still have the link for Teofil Tylka that you had shared?

Teofil's wedding record from 1902?

Yes.

https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=eng&bdm=S&w=21uk&rid=6628&search_lastname=tylka&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=1902&to_date=1902&rpp1=&ordertable=

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AndrewTylka — Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:27 pm

Author: AndrewTylka

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:27 pm

BarbOslo wrote:

AndrewTylka wrote:

Hi barb,

I never knew this history of the village, that's very good information learned. I knew it had origins from the 1600s.

Do you still have the link for Teofil Tylka that you had shared?

Teofil's wedding record from 1902?

Yes.

Re: TYLKA

BarbOslo — Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:25 pm

Author: BarbOslo

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 5:25 pm

AndrewTylka wrote:

Hi barb,

I never knew this history of the village, that's very good information learned. I knew it had origins from the 1600s.

Do you still have the link for Teofil Tylka that you had shared?

Teofil's wedding record from 1902?

Re: TYLKA

AndrewTylka — Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:28 am

Author: AndrewTylka

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:28 am

Hi barb,

I never knew this history of the village, that's very good information learned. I knew it had origins from the 1600s.

Do you still have the link for Teofil Tylka that you had shared?

Re: Tylka Village

BarbOslo — Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:59 am

Author: BarbOslo

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2024 1:59 am

AndrewTylka wrote:

Very interesting new information! I was always told growing up that my ancestors came from a village in Nowy Targ, Lesser Poland, near the Slovakian border named the Tylka village. I look where my Tylka ancestors have lived throughout the years and they always lived in close proximity to that village.

Do you have any information on the origin of this village and if my last name comes from this village?

Hi Andrew
I found this in Wikipedia:

The name of the village may come from the highlander surname Tylka or the German Tilke - which means a side valley. At the beginning of the 17th century, there was a glassworks in the Biały Potok valley (currently the Hucisko clearing), which was abandoned in 1613. The village was established using a system of forest clearings. It was part of the Czorsztyn starosty, in 1616 the small 1-lan village was in the hands of the starosta. In 1812, it was sold, together with Krościenko and Grywałd, by the Imperial-Royal Treasury to the Gross family, and in 1894 it was separated from this estate. At that time, the village had a lime kiln, the "Pod Tylką" brewery and a manor farm with beautiful forests. In 1919, the estate was already divided and the forest was partially cut down.

-Barb[/i]

Tylka Village

MikeP — Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:38 pm

Author: MikeP

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 10:38 pm

Hi Andrew,

Unfortunately, I do not have any information. I'll do some research and add my findings to this post.

Mike

Tylka Village

AndrewTylka — Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:22 am

Author: AndrewTylka

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2024 5:22 am

Very interesting new information! I was always told growing up that my ancestors came from a village in Nowy Targ, Lesser Poland, near the Slovakian border named the Tylka village. I look where my Tylka ancestors have lived throughout the years and they always lived in close proximity to that village.

Do you have any information on the origin of this village and if my last name comes from this village?

TYLKA

MikeP — Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:30 pm

Author: MikeP

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 10:30 pm

Hello Andrew,

The source book for Polish surnames is William Hoffman's "Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings", 3rd edition. On page 828 of Volume II we find the root Tyl- described as a feature or German personal name or an item (physical object). For instance, the root Tyl- compares to Tyle - "how much, so much", Tył - "back part of something" or from the German given name Till. In some cases the root Tyl- can possibly derive from Bartłomiej. For instance. Bartłomiej -> Bartyl -> Tyl. Hoffman's text lists a total of 1545 Poles who bore the surname Tylka in year 2002.

Regards,

Mike

TYLKA

AndrewTylka — Sat Oct 26, 2024 12:12 pm

Author: AndrewTylka

Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 12:12 pm

It would be interesting to know where my surname, TYLKA, comes from, and what it means.

I had done some reading, and it says it could have derived from an old Polish word, TYL, which meant "back" or "rear". I can only assume that meant it was a name for people who maybe lived or worked in a back area. But I don't know for sure.

Does anyone know anything?