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starshadow
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:54 am Post subject: Alternate forms of the surname Spiżarny?

I'm finding discrepancies tracing the surname Spiżarny over the border from the Łomża area of Poland into the Grodno area of Belarus. In 19th century Poland I'm seeing the surname Spiżarny sometimes alternately spelled Szpiżarny, Spizarniak, and Spizarski. But in former 18th century Polish-Lithuanian territories (now Belarus) I'm instead seeing it spelled Spiżarnia, Szpiżarnia, and Szpiżarnianka . And in one case it appears to be written "z Pizarnów". But I realize those are all obviously the same name.

But in one of the main parishes where I'm expecting to find it, I'm not finding anything, none of those spellings. The closest spellings I'm getting are Pisarzewicz and Piszkarzewicz.

And in some other nearby parishes, I'm seeing even more remote spellings like Pisarski, Pisarek, Pisarowna. And maybe Piszkow, Pyszkowna.

Could any of these really be possible alternate spellings of Spiżarny? Or am I going way off track?

(By the way, I also have a few erratic records where instead names like Hauryła, Saczewko, and Saczywko are used in place of Spiżarny. I'm not sure why.)

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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:19 pm Post subject:

Here's an example of how the surname Spiżarny appears instead as "z Pizarnów" in a 1798 baptism from Indura parish Belarus. The "z" is repeated in some of the other entries on the same page (like the entry above it), but not all of them.

Would it have been such a simple thing for them to add or subtract an "S" from a name like Spiżarny? I'm just wondering why Spiżarny is such a rare name in Poland and former Polish-Lithuanian territories. Could it have come from a surname like "Pisarski", which is far more popular?

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anita86

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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:40 am Post subject: Saczywko

Hi. I'm interested Saczywko surname.

Sophia
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 10:29 am Post subject: Re: Saczywko

anita86 wrote:

Hi. I'm interested Saczywko surname.

Hi Anita86,

The Saczywko name is fairly rare. If you want to see where in Poland people with that surname are living, you can see it here:
https://nazwiska-polskie.pl/Saczywko

However, historically, the name seems to be from what is today Belarus. There are records indexed on Geneteka for the parish of Dzisna that show quite a few people with the Saczywko surname. You can see that, here:
https://geneteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=gt&lang=pol&bdm=B&w=22br&rid=9758&search_lastname=Saczywko&search_name=&search_lastname2=&search_name2=&from_date=&to_date=

No guarantee that this is the place of origin of your family, though. To know that, you would have to trace backwards through the records of your ancestors.

Best regards,
Sophia

ChinPower

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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:25 am Post subject:

Hi,

I am from Russia and my surname has Polish origin - Spiżarki. In Russian it is "Спижарский", or "Spizharskiy" when transliterated. This is very fascinating since both Polish and Russian versions are extremely rare.

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