If you have one of these last names, or have any information about any families with these last names, please let me know.
These are the names of 7 of my eight great grandparents, all of whom were immigrants from the area of Posen from 1870 to 1890, settling in and around Detroit, Michigan.
If you want help research for families & perhaps finding out your ancestral towns, please provide more specific information. 1st names of each member of a family group & approx. birth years help tremendously.
Do you have them on census records? Passenger's lists? Draft cards? SSDI?
parents of John A. Paval (Pawlaczyk) who married Pauline Zielinski, daughter of...
John J. Zielinski, b. May 17, 1867 - d- Dec. 18, 1938 Maryanna Kedzierksi b. Dec. 24, 1869 - d. June 27, 1940
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Albert Rybicki, b. April 11, 1855 - d. Dec. 27, 1943 (spoke Kashub) Maryann Lasecki, Jan. 13, 1855 - d- Jan 8, 1940
parents of Anthony Rybicki who married Rosalia Klatt, daughter of...
Anthony Klatt, b. Jan 13, 1860 - d. Feb. 28, 1945 Elisabeth Dembeck, b. July 29, 1867 - June 3, 1950
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John A. Paval and Pauline Zielinski had a son, George, who was my father.
Anthony Rybicki and Rose Klatt had a daughter, Helen, who is my mother.
I have census information, children, addresses for the Zielinski household, on Forest Ave. in Detroit, just down the block, in fact, from Sweetest Heart of Mary Church, which was at the heart of the old polish neighborhood in Detroit.
And about the Klatt household, on Willis, just around the corner from St. Albertus Church, which was the oldest polish catholic church in detroit. And their old house is still there...
And I have information about the Rybicki household. I still have a few aunts and uncles on that side of our family who actually remember visiting their grandparents, my great grandparents, Albert and Maryanna Rybicki.
What I do not have is information about the roots of these three families back in Poland. They are known, in the family, to have simply come from Poznan, which, as you know, is as much a region as a town, so that doesn't necessarily help find their roots. They all died in the U.S., in Detroit. But I do not have their social security numbers, or even the social security numbers of their children. But I have a feeling all you'd find on the social security applications of their children is the same info, namely, that they came from Poznan or Posen in German or Prussian Poland.
And, most importantly, I have very little clear information about the Pawlaczyks, which is my father's father's family. John Pawlaczyk, my great grandfather, served in the Prussian cavalry before immigrating to the U.S. in the late 1800s, and after founding a family in and around Detroit, he returned to Europe during the First World War and did not come back to Detroit afterwards. I have a distant cousin in Poland helping with research on him, but the information I get from him is maddeningly sketchy and intriguing. He tracked down info about a couple of John Pawlaczyks who were officers in the Prussian cavalry in the 1800s, most notably a John Pawlaczyck in a particular cavalry regiment near Olesnica. He also got confirmation from SOME administrative contact (the guy is a police officer in Puck) that there are confidential military files on a John Pawlaczyk who moved back to Poland in 1917-1918 from Wayne County, Michigan, and that would have been my great grandfather. But I cannot get out of the guy what was in those military files, nor confirm that the same John Pawlaczyk who went back in 1917 was the John Pawlaczyk in the Prussian cavalry at Olesnica in the late 1800s...
Hey, My name is Jessica, I live in western New York, and my last name is Pawlaczyk. All i basically know is that there were five brothers who came from poland around the 1860's and 2 came tot he buffalo area, 1 stayed in or around Erie PA, and the other two headed towards Ohio, Michiagn Area. My grandparents told me this... I am not sure of the exact dates or places, but this is what i have been told. I hope this can help.
My great great great grandfather was one of the ones that went to buffalo area... Sorry if this doesn't help you but i wanna start a family tree since my grandparents are still alvie and well they can't really tell me much. I'm 16 and wanting to know more about my polish ancestory.
i would be happy to get in touch with you and share information more directly. the board says i have to post four "useful" messages before i can do that.
so, i hope this counts as one.
about the pawlaczyks. i am told that all pawlaczyks are related to each other, as this is a fairly small clan. the polish census of 1990 showed there to be about 3, 000 poles living in poland with this last name. the highest concentrations of them were in the area around poznan, which was originally the family seat.
the pawlaczyk family line was known as early as 1650, and may well date from the 1450s when the King of Poland ennobled many families who took part in a major war which he waged against the Teutonic Knights in the region which is now northwestern Poland (the area along the Baltic sea around Gdansk) but which was referred to Prussia for many years.
the family seat of the pawlaczyks was at Wrzesnia, a little town about 80 kilometers south east of the city of Poznan.
we have two coats of arms.
etc. etc.
i will try to email you after posting a few more messages. but you can reach me at this address (if this form allows it to be printed publicly): ctafrance@hotmail
I an Eileen Asselta nee Dembek. My parents were Alfred P. Dembek and Patricia M. Dembek nee Roman. They had three daughters, Dianne, Maryann, and I. We lived in Port Jefferson Station, LI, NY.
My grandparents were Alfred and Anna Dembek from Brooklyn NY. I know very little about Alfred as he died in his early 40's and I never met him. I do know he had a sister named Irene. I am not sure if she was a full or half sister.
My name is Jean-Louis Pawlaczyk. I am french and I am also searching my roots in Poland. During your researches did you see these names of villages: Tokary, Praszka, Stawki, Wielun or Rudniki?
John Pawlaczyk, b. 1855? - d. ? Mary (?), ... Mary Ann Gruzinska. One of their other sons was my great-great grandfather, Martin Pawlaczyk. This is about all I know far back because I am away at college. When I go home in a couple of weeks, I am going to the church that has the Pawlaczyk's family records. The only other thing that I know is that Martin was born about 1866 in Poland. I hope this helped a little bit.
PAWLACZYK = Paulson (patronymic nickname) ZIELIŃSKI = toponymic from Zielin or Zieleń (Greenville, Shrubton, Leafyville) DĘBEK = little oak tree; probably toponymic from Dębinki, Dębe et al. RYBICKI = silverfish; probably toponymic from Rybka, Rybie, etc. LASECKI = from las (forest), laska (walking-stick) or laskowy (hazelnut adj.), or toponymic from many localities incorporating "las" root. KLATT = douible "t" suggests Germanised version of an originally Polish name Klata or Klatka (cage), possibly toponymic from Klatka or Klatki. KĘDZIERKI = from kędzior (curl), toponymic from Kędzierzyn, Kędziorki et al.
