History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

Seems to me that knowing how and when the canals & dikes were built, when the industrial revolution started (steam engine & spinning jenny), when the first railroad was built (Berlin to Potsdam), and the religious aspects (Protestant domination) of the governing bodies, are digested that the right perspective is found. Without question the railroads provided the means to maintain some kind of order, troops could be sent to most areas quickly and put down insurrection. The railroads gave rise to the German Empire about 1871. The city of Thorn (Torun) is just one example of the New Age. German, Russian & Austro-Hungary Powers were destined to collide and cause chaos & destruction. What a waste, man's inhumanity to mankind, was it growing pains and will it happen again? 140 years of destruction beyond imagination gives me reason to question the next 20 big time.

Travel / Jakubkowo-found 3 villages with this name, close to each. [3]

Have now found 5 places called Jakubkowo, all fairly close to another, could these places be FOLWARKS for the basis for szlachta economic and political power and what group of landowners would employ these methods?

Merged: Jakubkowo-6 villages-what gives, someone can make sense of this!

I have found six villages named Jakubkowo in Poland, one near Warszawa, other five near Lasin, Bratian, Brodnica Area. Surely this is confusion at its greatest, can anyone make sense of this? I am a son of Jakub, 14 ancestors may have lived in this area as far back as 1298. Arnold of Waldowa owned land near Rogozno, some of it taken to form the city of Lasin, brothers Maciej & Jakub had land taken to also form the city of Lasin, Jan de Nemore (John of the Forest) was to build a mill on Lasinkie River and estasblish the city. Someone out there has information on this historical devent, please contribute.