rsowaPO Top Contributor
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Location: Dundee, Michigan, USABack to top |
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:47 am
Post subject: Grand Trunk RR
Here's a recent discovery of mine that added a new twist to my research. These records are for Tomasz Ziolkowski, who was the second husband of my paternal great aunt. When naturalized he was working at the Union Stockyards and was living in the area "Back of the Yards".
All of the previous immigration records I have found for my ancestors have been from passenger ships. The records below are the first time I have found one of them arriving via railroad from Canada. I have tried without success to find any records for Tomasz Ziolkowski immigrating into Canada, nor any immigration records for his arrival in Detroit.
I would appreciate any advice on where I can find his immigration records into Canada or those for his arrival in Detroit. Also, I would like to figure out what his actual birthplace was.
Between these two documents, it's clear he left Montreal, Canada on 30 May 1893 via the Grand Trunk Railroad and arrived in Detroit, Michigan on 31 May 1893.
His 1913 Declaration of Intention indicates his birth village as "Golkowg" Russia. However, the Petition for Naturalization lists it as "Golkowo". I haven't been able to find either one on any maps, but have found Golcowa, which is about 10 km south of Rzeszow, and would probably have been in Galicia...not the Russian partition. So I suspect that is not the same town he reported as his birthplace.
Thanks in advance,
Richard
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dnowickiPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:00 am
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Richard,
The Slownik geograficzny has entries for Golkowo found in Tom II strona 674 and Tom XV cz I strona 515 and Mapa Szukacz (mapaszukacz.pl) lists three locations with that name. Two would have been in the Russian Partition, one in Powiat Slupski and another in Powiat Rypinski. In contemporary Poland the one in Powiat Slupecki is in Wielkopolskie and Powiat Rypinski is in Kujawsko-Pomorskie. The attached map of Powiat Slupecki (part of the Congress Kingdom) from 1907 shows Golkowo just to the South of Slupca.
Good luck in your quest.
Dave
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dnowickiPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 8:48 am
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Richard,
It turns out that your Tomasz Ziolkowski was born in Powiat Slupecki. Slupca Genealogy (www.slupcagenealogy.com) has indexed vital records from that area and Tomasz Ziolowski, born on 12/16/1866 in Golkow in the parish of Slupca of parents Jozef and Katarzyna nee Jarzabek appears on that index. The index lists the LDS films which contain the record of his birth as Microfilm #1221134 Item #7 and Item #8 and Microfilm #1191325 Item #10. The record appears in several places because duplicate copies of the registration records were filmed.
Dave
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rsowaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:44 am
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Thanks Dave and all! That sure clears up one of my issues!
To complete the picture, Tomasz Ziolkowski married Weronica (Bejenka) Wilkosz on 12 Feb 1899 St Joseph Church, Chicago, Illinois. His parents names were also listed there. So the record Dave found is certainly his. They went on to have three children. Weronica's first husband, Walenty Wilkosz had died in 1895.
One of Weronica's children from her first marriage, Francisca Wilkosz married Anton Machalski in 1912. Anton would go on to become my father's (Chester Stanley Sowa) Godfather in 1920.
Now I need to find the Canadian immigration info.
Thanks again,
Richard
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dnowickiPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:42 am
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Richard,
If you've not already seen www.collectionscanada.gc.ca that site may be a useful place to begin your search for passenger manifests and perhaps for border crossing info.
Dave
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HenrykPO Top Contributor
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