starkey76
Joined: 17 Sep 2013
Replies: 164
Location: Wheeling, WV USABack to top |
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:04 am
Post subject: Rościszewo history
Hello,
I've been looking at Rzeszotarski origins, and think I have started to unravel some of it...maybe. I have traced the Rzeszotarski origin through obituaries, passenger lists, census, birth/death/marriage, etc and finally located Gradzanowa, more specifically Bojanowo, as where my great-grandfather(Bronislaw-1878) and his sister (Weronika Rzeszotarski-1879) were born...and lots of visual searching through Gradzanowo's records that have been scanned after 1873. In Cyrillic.
http://www.geneszukacz.genealodzy.pl/index.php?search_lastname=rzeszotarski&from_date=&to_date=&rpp1=&bdm=&url1=&w=&lang=pol&op=se
I saw that almost all Rzeszotarski come from Mazowieckie, which is where Gradzanowa/Bojanowo records reside. Here's where I get troubled. If I put in 1850 in as the end search date, over 75% of the records are before that date, and it seems like the name disappears in Rościszewo as time goes on, despite having extensive indexes of records for 200 years, and scans from around 1810-1830. I know the changing of the language can affect records, but it seems like the Rzeszotarski's vanished from that area by 1900. Even by 1850, it was as if they were snuffed out, or maybe the name changed? It seems the name was derived from the area Rzeszotary, and peasants took the name. Siemiatkowski also seems to derive from the land name. I can't find anything about why the town of Rościszewo would dwindle so badly, but someone suggested maybe a Cholera outbreak around 1820? Or did the politics change so much, that keeping the name of the land that they worked became impossible or need to be changed to something else? I'm not informed on that area's history, and was wondering if anyone else had researched the area. Just seems odd that most of the records are from pre-1800, and then the name disappears. Bronislaw Rzeszotarski's name had been butchered to Starkey by my grandfather's birth in 1917 in Wheeling WV. Just curious what happened in Rościszewo, and the other Rzeszotary peasant area's.
John
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:18 am
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Worth to know the family Rzeszotarski [rare in Poland] survived in two places given by you, in the Rosciszewo and Rzeszotary, basing on the old Polish white pages (abt y 2000):
Regina Rzeszotarska, Rosciszewo
Hanna Rzeszotarska, Rzeszotary-Pszczele
Jadwiga Rzeszotarska, Rzeszotary-Pszczele
Adam Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Chwaly
Adam Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Zawady
Andrzej Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Zawady
Andrzej Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Chwaly
Czeslaw Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Pszczsele
Jacek Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Pszczele
Wojciech Rzeszotarski, Rzeszotary-Zawady
This could confirm your work locating the family roots, and origin in this part of Poland.
Good luck in your search,
Tad
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starkey76
Joined: 17 Sep 2013
Replies: 164
Location: Wheeling, WV USABack to top |
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:48 am
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Thanks Tad,
It's been a struggle, but I started with nothing, and with an obituary it all opened up. Just seems odd that there were hundred's of Rzeszotarski's before 1825, but by 1880-1905, I found very few families. I'm waiting on some translations to see if the 3 children I found born to Salomea Siemiatowska and Ludwig Bonkowski(married 1880) in 1883(Xawery), 1882(Piotr), and 1886(Maryanna), help confirm if she was the same Salomea Siemiatkowski that married Tomasz Rzeszotarski in 1874. "My" Salomea had Bronislaw(1878) and Weronika(1879), but their records said she was "unmarried", not widowed. Tomasz and Salomea had Jan Rzeszotarski in 1874 before Tomasz died in 1875. Might never be able to tell if Salomea was the mother of all 6 children.
John
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