Point of Origin - Cekcyn

I have been holding off doing any further "Points of Origin" entries for a long time.  This is not because I don't think this information is important, but just the opposite.  This type of information can be invaluable to show possible relationships between families.  Sadly, point of origin information is not generally available through other sources because most sources cannot be easily searched by just a place name.

Therefore, I believe that making this information available is extremely important, and I have been contemplating the best way to convey the information that I have. Specifically, I wanted to find a way to list the individuals who had connections to any specific location rather than just family names.  Family names are ambiguous.  Unconnected families can have the same name and a researcher would not know if their family was connected to a particular locality unless they could match a specific individual.  I think I have finally hit upon a way to do this.  It is still not perfect, but it is the best that I can devise at this point in time.  Let me know what you think.  Also, I will update the roster below as more information becomes available.

Place Name:  Cekcyn, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland, Tuchola County
Name in German:  Polnisch-Cekzin

Approximate Coordinates:  53.5667° N, 18.0167° E or 53° 34' 0" North, 18° 1' 0" East


 

For an inter-active map:  click here 

For purposes of the Poznań Project it is located in the "Bydgoszcz - Wyrzysk - Złotów" Region.
Note: at least some records of this town also appear in the database of the Pomeranian Genealogical Association.

Individuals with life events at this locality:
"Life events" are birth, marriage or death.  It does not yet include the birth of a child, even though that would indicate the parent, especially the mother, lived there at the time. 

Not all individuals listed came to Milwaukee, but they are "connected" to someone who did.  A"Connected" is a loose term, because I tend to follow the lines as far as possible - otherwise, you never know where they will lead.

How to Read the Roster: Families are grouped together, as far as possible, with generations shown by numbered indentations. Individuals who are known to have come to Milwaukee are indicated by bold type.  Individuals with at least one known direct descendant who came to Milwaukee are indicated by italics.  All dates listed are for events in Cekcyn.  Material in brackets indicates relevant information about individuals who do not have life events in Cekcyn.  Note: families are not complete. Siblings will be listed only if they had a life event in Cekcyn, or if they or one of their descendants came to Milwaukee..

1.  [Children of John Cyborowski and Catharina Frydrychowicz] 
     2.  Cyborowski, August -
           3.  [Cyborowski, Suzanna (his daughter) married Joseph Michalski in Milwaukee]
     2.  Cyborowski, Rosalia - Birth: Abt. 1857 [married Dziekan, August (see below)]
     2.  Cyborowski, Appolonia - Birth: Abt. 1858 [married Dziekan, Paul, (see below) in Milwaukee]
     2.  Cyborowski, Marianna - Birth: Abt. 1861
     2.  Cyborowski, Johann - Birth: Abt. 1863

1.  [Children of Paul Dziekan and Catharina Wenderski] 
     2.  Dziekan, August - Birth: Abt. 1850 [married Cyborowski, Rosalia (see above)]
          3.  Dziekan, Anastasia - Birth: 1881 [married Stephen Sobczyk in Milwaukee]
          3.  Dziekan, Johannes - Birth: Abt. 1883
     2.  Dziekan, Anna - Birth: Abt. 1852
     2.  Dziekan, Marianna - Birth: Abt. 1855
     2.  Dziekan, Johann - Birth: Abt. 1858
     2.  Dziekan, Paul - Birth: Abt. 1863 [married Cyborowski, Appolonia, (see above) in Milwaukee]
     2.  Dziekan, Katharyna - Birth: Abt. 1863
     2.  Dziekan, Ignatz - Birth: Abt. 1866
     2.  Dziekan, Joseph - Birth: Abt. 1868

1.  [Children of Jacubus Mulzof and Justina Borzyszkowski]
     2.  Mulzof, Petrus Paulus - Death: Bef. 1901, on 26 Nov 1849 in Cekcyn, married Myslinski, Marianna (See below).  Their children included:
           3.  Mosolf, Johnn - Death: 01 Nov 1853
           3.  Musolf, Joseph - Birth: 19 Nov 1853 married, in Cekcyn on 15 Nov 1875, Wolski, Franziska - Birth: 20 Jun 1856.  They had the following children:
                4.  Musolf, Julian - Birth: 23 Aug 1876 - Death: 11 Oct 1876
                4.  Musolf, Marianna - Birth: Jul 1878 - Death: 15 Sep 1878
                4.  Musolf, Antonia - Birth: 31 Jan 1880
                4.  Musolf, Antonina - Birth: 23 Jan 1881
                4.  Musolf, Joannes - Birth: 29 Aug 1883
                4.  Musolf, Agnes - Birth: 01 Feb 1886
                4.  Musolf, Peter - Birth: 17 Oct 1888
                4.  Musolf, Paul - Birth: 17 Oct 1888
                4.  Musolf, Franciscus - Birth: 03 Dec 1889 
          3.  Musolph, Paulus - Birth: 06 Jan 1856 - in Milwaukee married Brona, Rosalia - Birth: 08 Nov 1858
          3.  Mulzof, Antonius - Birth: 13 Jun 1858
          3.  Musolf, Ignatz - Birth: 25 Sep 1860
          3.  Musolf, Catharyna - Birth: 09 Jul 1863, on 27 Nov 1882 in Cekcyn, married Valentin Kielpinski
          3.  Mulzof, Adam - Birth: 19 Apr 1866 - Death: 19 Apr 1866
          3.  Mulzof, Josephine - Birth: 16 Apr 1867 -  Death: 29 Dec 1867
          3.  Mulzof, Franz - Birth: 15 Oct 1868 - Death: 18 Oct 1868
          3.  Mulsolf, Julianna - Birth: 25 Aug 1870 [married Ladislaus Hyronimus Schley in Milwaukee]
          3.  Mulzof, Franz - Birth: 03 Apr 1873 [married Martha Grohall in Milwaukee]
          3.  Musolf, Apollonia - Birth: 28 Jan 1875 [married Franciscus Josephus Joannes Grohall in Milwaukee]
          3.  Mulzof, Anastasia - Birth: 03 Oct 1879
     2.  Mulzof, Adalbert - on 04 Feb 1864 married in Cekcyn Wolski, Catharina - Birth: 22 Dec 1844
          3.  Musolf, Johann - Birth: 02 Jan 1865 - on 04 Nov 1889 in Cekcyn married Valeria Ryczkowski
          3.  Musolf, Agnes - Birth: 21 Jan 1867 - on 13 Feb 1893 in Cekcyn married Johann Schweda
          3.  Musolf, Maryanna - Birth: 15 Jun 1869 - Death: 06 Jul 1869
          3.  Musolf, Rosalia - Birth: 13 Jun 1870 - on 03 Feb 1897 in Cekcyn married Michael Siewert
          3.  Musolf, Thomas - Birth: 11 Dec 1872 - married Kolassa, Marianna - Birth: 18 Jan 1872
          3.  Musolf, Anna - Birth: 12 May 1875 -  on22 Jan 1895 in Cekcyn married Joseph Makowski
          3.  Musolf, Joseph - Birth: 24 Feb 1878 - on 15 Feb 1904 in Cekcyn married Rosalia Wolski
          3.  Musolf, Peter - Birth: 08 Sep 1880
          3.  Musolf, Theodor - Birth: 08 Nov 1882 - Death: 18 Dec 1882
 
1.   Children of Myslinski, Franciscus - Death: 19 Apr 1852 and Schultz, Agnes - Death: 26 Feb 1865
     2.  Myslinski, Marianna - Birth: 04 Jan 1834 -  Death: Aft. 1901. Married Mulzof, Petrus Paulus on 26 Nov 1849 in Cekcyn (see above.)

Bronisław, Poland - A Cautionary Tale

Recently, I have been working on entering the data from the Waszak/Kuzba families that was posted on Family Tree Maker on-line by Adrienne Zuber.  (The tree can be found here.)  I was especially excited about this project when I noticed that the Kubza family came from Bronisław, Poland because I already had on the Milwaukee Polonia Project tree two families that had connections to Bronisław.  Walter [Waclaw] Ruszkiewicz had been born in Bronisław in 1885, and his first cousin, Michael Wierzbinski had probably been born there in 1867.  My excitement increased when I noticed that both the Kuzba family and the Ruszkiewicz/Wierzbinski families had connections to Glowacki and Marciniak families.  Bronisław is not that big.  The entire parish, including Bronisław, Ciechsz, Czerniak, Osikowo, and Rzadkwin numbered only 960 souls in 1888.  Surely, there had to be some connection between the Kuzba family and the Ruszkiewicz/Wiezbinski families.

There was only one thing that was troubling me.  Most of the Ruszkiewicz/Wierzbinski sources were in Rzadkwin, which is just a couple miles away from Bronisław on Lake Pakoskie, connected with Bronisław on Lake Bronisławski via the West Notec River. (A dam added in 1975 has increased the size of Lake Bronisławski making it look like one lake.) (click on the following map to get more information):



There is a church (St. Rotha) in Rzadkwin.  Since Bronisław is only a couple miles away from Rzadkwin, I'd be surprised if there was a church there as well.  However, most of the sources for the Kuzba family listed the church as St. Bartholomew the Apostle, not St. Rotha.  Moreover, the postal code for St. Bartholomew the Apostle was 88-210 whereas the postal code for Bronisław was 88-320.  To top things off, when I googled "Bronisław, Poland" some of the maps looked like this:

Where were the lakes?  Where was Rzadkwin?  What was going on?

Well, as you probably guessed quicker than I did, there are two Bronisław, Poland's.  To make matters even more confusing, they are both in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. (One is in Mogilno County; the other in Radziejowski County.)  In fact, they are only about 20 miles apart.

The moral I learned from this is that you can never be too careful with place names in Poland.  You have to deal with changing names, and changing languages so that the same town can have two names, one in Polish and one in German or Russian, but then you can also have, as in this case, two different towns having the same name. (Which, to be fair, also happens in the United States.)

Two last things to note.

First, although the towns are only about 20 miles apart, their history is dramatically different in one respect.   The Bronisław which lies on the shores of Lake Bronisławski was part of the Grand Duchy of Poznań, and later the Province of Posen.  Thus, it's marriage records are available through the Poznań Project.  The other Bronisław was not in the Grand Duchy, so its records are not so readily available.

Second, a little trivia.  I mentioned above that Michael Wierzbinski was born in Bronisław.  When he came to Milwaukee, he married Antonette Maciejewski who had been born in Podróżna around 1875.  Podróżna is a village in the same parish as Bługowo, which was the first Point of Origin that I discussed.

Bługowo, Poland

Bługowo, Poland Fact Sheet

Bługowo is just a small village located on the south side of a small lake.   It appears unremarkable in just about every way.  Yet, it was the Point of Origin for a relatively large number of Milwaukee families.  The reason is unknown at this point.  Perhaps further research will solve this mystery.

Bługowo is currently part of Złotów County, in the northern point of Greater Poland Voivodeship (Wielkopolska Province).  Some nice photographs of the village can be found here.

Polish Name: Bługowo
German Name: Seehof
German County (Kreis):  Wirsitz (I have also seen it mentioned as being part of Kreis Flatow.  That is the German translation of its current Polish County, which may be the reference.  Or, it may have been in the German County of Flatow which did exist at one time. Or, it may be due to the fact that there are two villages of Bługowo which are very close to one another.)
German Province:  Posen
Population 1905:  157

Name of Catholic Church:  St. Jacob Apostle
Parish records includes surrounding villages of:  Kunowo, Podróżna, Tłukom Nowy, Tłukom Stary
This parish had a population in 1888 of 1010 souls

Location of nearest Lutheran Parish:  Łobżenica  (German name:  Lobsens).

Known Milwaukee Families with some association to Bługowo (including nearby villages of the same parish):  Biedrzycki, Czerwinski, Erdmann, Jagodzinski, Krysiak, Maciejewski, Michalek, Michalski, Paprocki, Plewa, Sonenberg, Sromala, Tutaj, Wnuk,

(Further research has to be done on the following Milwaukee families which may also have ties:  Bilaf, Brzezinski, Buzy, Ciepluch, Dziekan, Kryzel, Rybarczyk, Rzepka, Skowera, Smetkowski)

(Click on the following satellite view for more information.)