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Don

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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject: Spelling of last name - Reszkiewicz, Piszkiewicz

Record of father's ship manifest lists mother's name as Anna Palinski and [step] father's name as Wincenty ?
Could someone give me correct spelling of Wincenty's last name.

Many thanks,
Don

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Spelling of last name

Don wrote:

Record of father's ship manifest lists mother's name as Anna Palinski and [step] father's name as Wincenty ?
Could someone give me correct spelling of Wincenty's last name.

Many thanks,
Don

I read it as Reskiewicz (actually Reszkiewicz). Or Pleskiewicz.

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:57 am Post subject: Re: Spelling of last name

Don wrote:

Record of father's ship manifest lists mother's name as Anna Palinski and [step] father's name as Wincenty ?
Could someone give me correct spelling of Wincenty's last name.

Many thanks,
Don

Could also be Boszkiewicz or Roszkiewicz.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:20 am Post subject:

Looking at the style of the first letter of the 5 words in line vertically starting with Palinski, I see the next starting with R, then Paczkiewicz, then Russia, then P again. ~PL

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 12:30 pm Post subject:

Don,

Line 5 seems to be Jozef Paszkowski, (Paszkowcki - "c" - ki at the end is too weird) which let me think, that the scribe was writing "c" and "s" in a very similar way.

Then: Wincenty Paszkiewicz.
There is almost 6000 Paszkiewicz in today Poland, only 1 Paczkiewicz, and 50 Pączkiewicz (a ogonek)

Best,
Elzbieta

Don

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:30 pm Post subject: Wincenty's last name

Thank you all for your help. I've been leaning towards the name Paczkiewicz.
Don

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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 8:22 pm Post subject:

I hate to muddy the water, but it might also be Piszkiewicz. I have a lot of ancestral relations with the name Piszkiewicz...which was often spelled wrong by census takers and others.

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