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PARAFIA STRASZECIN

Items in Slownik Geograficzny, Warsaw, 1895

English Translation:
Researched by: Diana Grzelak Needham
Translated by: Grace Skowron

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Chotowa
Translation: Chotowa, a village in Pilzno County, about 4 kilometers from Debica, in the Roman Catholic parish of Straszecin.
Researched by: Diana Grzelak Needham
Translated by: Dennis Benarz

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Glowaczowa
Translation: Glowaczowa (with Golemki and Przyborow), villages in Pilzno County, belonging to the Roman Catholic parish in Straszecin, the county court in Pilzno, and the post office in Czarna. The vicinity of Glowaczowa is covered with coniferous forests, near the the Archduke Karol Ludwik railway. Residents number 770 and the local loan office has capital of 162 zlotys. The noble estate has 689 morgs of farmland, 63 morgs of gardens and fields, 103 morgs of pasture, and 1175 morgs of forests; the minor estates have 675 morgs of farmland, 120 morgs of gardens and fields, 258 morgs of pasture, and 25 morgs of forest.

Researched by: Diana Grzelak Needham
Translated by: Dennis Benarz

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Grabiny
Translation: Grabiny 2.) Grabiny, village near Grabinka Creek as it flows into the Wisloka River and the Karol Ludwik railway station in Debica, in Pilzno County, the Roman Catholic Parish of Straszecin, 443 residents. The noble estate has 447 morgs of farmland, 26 morgs of meadows, and 39 morgs of pastures. The minor estates have 610 morgs of farmland, 46 morgs of gardens and meadows, and 154 morgs of pastures. Mentioned in Dlugosz, Lib. benef., II, 261. Translation: Grabiny (ed: actually Grabinka Creek) a marked river, whose middle course is also called Czarna, originates in the marshy meadows bordering the towns of Lisia Gora and Zaczarnia in Tarnow County; flowing through neighboring towns to the east; passes through Stare Zukowic and Nowe Zukowice, where along its left bank begin both Jabloniec and Jastrzebski streams, creating the beginning of a single stream in the vicinity of the towns of Jawornika and Katar; and Zdziarow its other branch flows in an invariably eastern direction amidst meadows, itself reaching the vicinity of the town of Czarna and from there adopting the name of Czarna River; flowing through the towns of Glowaczowa, Grabiny, and Straszecin and discharging itself on the left bank of the Wiskola River. Length of course is 21 kilometers.
(Remainder of entry deals with elevations at specific locations and was not translated.)

Researched by: Diana Grzelak Needham; Translated by: Dennis Benarz

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Golemki
Translation: Golemki, adjoining Glowaczowa in Pilzno County, in the vicinity of thickets of pine forests, near the Karol Ludwik railway, having 229 residents.
Researched by: Diana Grzelak Needham
Translated by: Dennis Benarz

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Gora Motyczna

Translation: Gora Motyczna, a village on the left bank of the Wisloka River in Pilzno County belonging to the county court and post office in Debica and the Roman Catholic parish of Straszecin. It has 731 residents all of the Roman Catholic faith. The noble estate belonging to Count Raczynski has a toal of 25 morgs of gardens and meadows, 18 morgs of pasture, and 92 morgs of forests; the lesser estates have 920 morgs of farmland, 119 morgs of gardens and meadows, and 84 morgs of pastureland.

Contributed by: Joann Kubek Mazen

Wola Zyrakowska

Translation: Wola Zyrakowska, village in the district of Ropa, on the left bank of the Wisloka River, on the road from Straszecin to Przeclaw, together with the larger estate of Rydlow it consists of 67 houses and 359 inhabitants: 352 Roman Catholics and 7 Jews. The whole estate consists of 307 morgs. The villages borders with Bobrowa to the north, Gora Motyczna to the west, and Zyrakow to the the south. It already existed in the middle of the 15th Century in the parish of Straszecin. The heir was Stanislaw Ligeza (Dlugosz, L.B., Volume II, page 261).

Translated by: Daria Wieczorek
Contributed by: Dick Slowik


Editor's note: 1 morg = approximately 1.2 acres. Or, 1 morg = 0.5985 hector or 0.5597 hector depending on date of record.

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Parafia Straszecin . . . . Straszecin Parish


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