Locating my polish family Mikolajec

Hi
I am trying to trace my late fathers family. He was born in Poland in a village called rudnyk. He was born in 1922 and his mothers name was Maria. He came to England during the was and served in the british navy, I also know that his and his family's surname was changed around this time. The surname we have now is Mikolajec but a letter that came mant years ago was addressed to Edward Mikolajetz so I am not sure if this is the original spelling. I have been searching everywhere but keep hitting brick walls. If anybody can give me any hints how to proceed, I would truly appreciate it.

Thank you.

Rudnik is a apparently village in the Opole region (first locate Katowice in the south, then go west a little to find Opole)
There is a parish in Rudnik

diecezja.opole.pl/parafie/?numer=103&sekcja=parafie_search

You have the address and the phone number there. They also say that a priest called Miko 2;ajec was born there, so there may be more of the family still living there

Thanks for that link, the only prolem I have is that I do not speak Polish so I will ahve problems calling or writing to them. Does anyone have any links to people that may help?

Thanks

any body tell me about a small town name "Charzanow"? what is population. ? and what is source of income of peoples living in Charzanow. I mean is this an agriculutre town or what? help me and write more aobut this town.

i will appreciate

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Chrzanów

so you mean "Charzanow" or "Chrzanow"? either way i don't think it's a big city; i suppose between 10K-50K. If you could specify the exact name it would be easier for me to look up more information.

I lived up the block from a family named Mikolajec in Cohoes, New York. The father's name was Stephen. He is now deceased, but they had a son of the same name.

My next door neighbor years ago was Helen Mikolaicik. Nicest person you ever met. Like a grandmother to me. I still hear from some of her family. We were from Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.

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I am trying to trace my late fathers family. He was born in Poland in a village called Rybnik near Krakow. He was born in 1922 and his mothers name was Maria. He came to England during the was and served with the british navy, I also know that his and his family's surname was changed around this time. The surname we have now is Mikolajec but a letter that came many years ago was addressed to Edward Mikolajetz so I am not sure if this is the original spelling.

Relatives were his sister franciszka, sister helena, brothers Gus and Otton.

There's Rybnik in Upper Silesia... but that's a quite large town and over 100km away from Kraków.


Looks like Geraminized version...

My grandfather's mother was Anna Mikołajczyk, born perhaps 1850? Her parents were John Mikołajczyk and Victoria Szczpanic. Great-grandmother Anna was married to Sebastian Fiołek (his second wife?) and they were living at Mysłenice (Krakow) when grandfather was born. A woman from Poland told me the name means something like "Nichols" or "Nicholas" or "Nicholson". Any information on Mikołajczyk in this part of Poland would be greatly appreciated.

My great-grandmother was Anna Mikołajczyk, daughter of John Mikołajczyk and Victoria Szczepanic. Anna was born about 1850? Married Sebastian Fiołlek (2nd wife?). Lived in Mysłenice (south of Krakow) when my grandfather was born in 1887. Any information about Mikołajczyk in this area appreciated.

That makes sense. My grandfather's first name was Mikolaj, which is Nicholas, so Nicholson is probably a good guess.