Re: Family Story that Grandfather Aleksander Les from Bialys

BarbOslo — Sat May 11, 2024 9:54 am

Author: BarbOslo

Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 9:54 am

Ljless wrote:

I have been searching for records of my grandfather in Poland for about 10 years. The records for my Grandfather Martin Less and great uncles who immigrated early in the 1900s indicate that they are from Biala in Galicia. Don't know how they fit together in that story?

Hi,
Make a new post on the forum and tell everything you know about your grandfather. Attach some documents if you have them: Manifest, census..... Bialystok is not the place you are looking for.

Best regards,
-Barb

Family Story that Grandfather Aleksander Les from Bialystok

Ljless — Sat May 11, 2024 9:29 am

Author: Ljless

Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 9:29 am

I have been searching for records of my grandfather in Poland for about 10 years. The records for my Grandfather Martin Less and great uncles who immigrated early in the 1900s indicate that they are from Biala in Galicia. Don't know how they fit together in that story?

Białystok Ancestors

HelpTheFamily — Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:05 am

Author: HelpTheFamily

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:05 am

I’ve made this topic because I want to talk about Bialystok Ancestry.

Białystok History (Until WW2)

1320 - Settlement founded in Lithuania.

1569 – part of the Lesser Poland Province of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

1692 – Białystok granted city rights by Polish King John III Sobieski

1697 - Branicki Palace built

1745 – the first military technical school in Poland founded in Białystok

1748 – one of the oldest theaters in Poland, the Komedialnia, founded

1749 – King Augustus III of Poland extended the city limits

1753 - Center of the city burns down

1756 - Jan Klemens Branicki, owner of Białystok, divorces his third wife

1763–1768 – Municipal hospital founded by Jan Klemens Branicki

13 July 1769 – Battle of Białystok, part of the War of the Bar Confederation

1770 – midwifery school founded under the auspices of Izabella Poniatowska

9 October 1771 – Jan Klemens Branicki dies

1789 – the epidemic of smallpox, the 22 children died

1795 – City annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland and made the administrative seat of the Białystok Department

26 January 1796 – Prussian administration takes over the town, but it remains formally owned by Izabella Poniatowska-Branicki

1805 – Institute of Obstetrics established based on the midwifery school

1807 - Town becomes part of Russia, per Peace of Tilsit, and capital of the Belostok Oblast.

14 February 1808 – Izabella Poniatowska-Branicka dies

3 July 1812 – Napoleon's army enters the city

13 July 1812 – Declaration of the inhabitants of communication with the Commonwealth

4 August 1812 – Russian army enters the city

8 August 1812 – giving a new coat of the city by Tsar Alexander I

13 December 1830 – announcement of martial law by the Russian authorities in connection with the outbreak of the November Uprising

1 February 1831 – setting up headquarters in the Russian army commander, Field Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch, whose task was to suppress the November Uprising

1834 – a ban on teaching in schools in the Polish language

1842 - City becomes administratively part of the Grodno Governorate

1845 - Woollen mill built

1857 - Population: 13,787

15 December 1859 – Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of the international language Esperanto, was born

13 June 1860 – the beginning of a patriotic demonstration under the banner of national unity and fight against colonization

16 March 1861: Prayers were held by local Poles and Jews in memory of Polish protesters massacred by the Russians in Warsaw a few weeks earlier

3 May 1861: The Russians arrested several Polish students during the celebration of the Polish 3 May Constitution Day

9 June 1861: Andrzej Artur Zamoyski, representative of the Whites, arrives in the city

1862 – Opening of the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway through the city

24 April 1863 – the beginning of the Polish January Uprising in the Białystok area

15 February 1864 - Battle of the January Uprising was fought near Białystok

1877 – expanding the city limits: integrated railway station, the village of Piaski and Las Zwierzyniecki

1886 – the railway line Bialystok – Vawkavysk – Baranovichi

1889 - Population: 56,629.

1891 – Launch of the first telephone exchange

1895 – launch of three lines of horse tram

1897 - Population: 63,927.

1898 – establishment of the Volunteer Fire Department

1901 - Population: 65,781

1905 - Chernoe Znamia political group formed

1906 - 14–16 June: Białystok pogrom of Jews by the Russians

1910 - Białystok Power Station commissioned

1912 Tsarist prison built

Population: 98,170

1913 - Great Synagogue built

1915 - City becomes capital of the Bialystok-Grodno District of the German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I

1919 - Białystok part of the re-established Polish state, capital of the Białystok Voivodeship, and Białostoczek becomes part of city

22 September 1920: Battle of Białystok - Polish victory over the invading Russian forces.
Jagiellonia Białystok football club formed

1921 - Białystok confirmed as part of Poland

1928 - Polmos Białystok founded

1934 - Seweryn Nowakowski, considered one of the greatest mayors of Białystok, becomes mayor

1937 Podlaska Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army formed and stationed in Białystok.
Population: 100,101.

1938 - Białystok Municipal Theatre built

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