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Micoed

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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:57 pm Post subject: Origin of surname Okorowski

My great-grandparents, Walter Frank and Rose Okorowski were born in the late 1890s in Poland and migrated to the United States during the first few decades of the twentieth century, probably the 20s or 30s.

Thank you for your help.

Magroski49
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:21 pm Post subject:

Polish names would be Wladyslaw Franciszek and Rozalia.
Few Okorowski arriving at Ellis Island, mostly from areas near Lomza, but no one is Wladyslaw.
Have you checked if they naturalized? Their SS-5 form?
Consider checking the Okurowski spelling, too.

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:17 am Post subject:

May I add to Gilberto's advice:

https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Okurowski
339 Okurowski in today Poland

and
https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Okorowski
5 Okorowski

According to Stankiewicze
http://www.stankiewicze.com/index.php?kat=44&sub=547
Okurowski - od okurzyć, pokryć coś kurzem, opylić

kurz = dust
okurzyć = make dust (when smoking, or doing some work making dust)

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Elzbieta

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