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katharine   
5 Feb 2011
Genealogy / I have a story about my Polish ancestor but no name. [7]

Please don't make fun. I am very serious and I don't know where to look for answers. Apparently there were thousands of Polish nobles killed during the Napoleonic wars, and I don't know how to look for marriage or lawsuit records.
katharine   
5 Feb 2011
Genealogy / I have a story about my Polish ancestor but no name. [7]

I am looking for information about my ancestor. My ancestor was a nobleman who's wife had died, leaving him with a very young daughter named Agnieska. The man went with his servant to fight in the Napoleonic war and was killed. His servant returned to the estate and raised the young girl as his own. She grew up thinking he was her father, but when a wealthy businessman from Hungary came looking for a wife for his son, he recognized that the servant was not the nobleman. Agnieska married the Hungarian boy, Anton Szabo, and sued the servant for the return of her estate. All of her underclothes and handkerchiefs were embroidered with a three-pronged crown. Is this story enough to find out her father's name?