Rościszewo history

[jstarkey]

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/in ... =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

[introibo]

It has been awhile since you posted this, so I hope you will be notified...
I have ancestors from Rościszewo (mostly Orzechowski/Krajewska). Just for your information, I have some scans of marriages and they mention Rzeszotarskis as witnesses...
Marriage in 1824 lists as witnesses Jakub Rzeszotarski, 24; Tomasz Rzeszotarski, 33, (both residing in Chwaly) and Jakub Rzeszotarski, 48, residing in Rościszewo. (all farmers)

Also a wedding in 1811, with witness Stanislaw Rzeszotarski, 60, farmer, from Chwaly.

May not be of interest to you, but since we share ancestral town, perhaps this might help..

Christina W.

[Wojciechowicz_Krzysztof]

Your Rzeszotarskis are nobles. The documents clearly state: "urodzony Jakob Rzeszotarski, gospodarz"; " córka urodzonej Mayannny Rzeszotarskiej, wyrobnica". Their profession had nothing to do with their social status. Many nobles lost their estates and had to work for living. Even earlier in XVIII century you can find terms like "urodzona żebraczka" or "szlachetny żebrak".

Pozdrowienia

Krzysztof

[jstarkey]

Sorry I didn't see your responses sooner.
The name Krajewska is the name of my 5x great grandmother, Katarzyna Krajewska, who married Tomasz Szamier/Chamier and had 10 children before she died in 1844. After she died, Tomasz married Franciszka Chmielińska and had 10 more children.
Probably intertwines at some point. I think Katarzyna's parents were Franciszek Krajewski and Apolonia Roman, according to the marriage translation I got.
Thanks
John