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Information on family of Agatha Bogus


JessicaBerger  
9 Feb 2015 /  #1
I will start by saying I live in the USA. Upon speaking with my grandmother about my great-grandparents who came over from Poland, my grandmother told me that my great-grandmother Agatha Bogus left her noble/royal family to run away with the "help". They married and had several children. I am just trying to connect and find out about my past. If anyone has any information on the Bogus family I would be very grateful. She left her family and married my great grandfather Micheal Wasielewski.
Monitor  13 | 1810  
9 Feb 2015 /  #2
Boguś, not Bogus. Now people with such surname live mostly here:
moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/bogu%25C5%259B.html

Here is some random list of Noble families:

szlachtarp.pl/lista-nazwisk-indeks3-Lustracja.html?PHPSESSID=49561fec38d777eeaa3c63aff52d6776
Buguś occurs there. To learn about noble families of Poland check Szlachta: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlachta
Polonius3  980 | 12275  
10 Feb 2015 /  #3
BOGUŚ: pet form of Bogusław; pet or standard forms of first names evolved into surnames usually when only one person in a given hamlet bore that name. It then became attached to the entire family. So the famaily of Boguś were referred to as Bogusie (dialectal) or Bogusiowie (high Polish), the wife was Bogusiowa and kids were Bogusiów and an unmarried daughter mgiht have been called Bogusiówna. At some stage the base form Boguś began fucntioning as an effective surname passed down from one generation to the next.

WASIELEWSKI: surname of toponmyic origin traceabale to localtiies called Wasielewo or Wasielew.
Root-word is Wasyl, eastern form of the first name Bazyl or Bazyli. So those localities might be roughly translated as Basilton or Basilville.

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