Rościszewo history
: sob 06 gru 2014, 10:24
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
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