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Uniszowa

Uniszowa, a village in Tarnow powiat, located on the road from Tuchow (8.7 km. away) to Ryglice (3 km. away). It is situated in a hilly, wooded area on a stream that is a tributary on the right side of the Biala river where it joins it at Kielanowice Gorne. The village has 49 houses and 269 inhabitants. Its registered area is divided into two manor farmsteads, Uniszowa and Kozlowka (3 houses, 42 inhabitants).

The village has 305 Roman Catholic and 6 Jewish inhabitants. The landed property, owned by Franciszek Zabecki, consists of 124 morgs of farmland, 7 of meadows, 390 sazens of orchards, 6 morgs of pastures, 150 morgs of forests, and 1,101 sazens of built-up plots of land. The minor estates consist of 292 morgs of farmland, 28 of meadows and orchards, 51 of pastures, and 6 of forests. Pilat's Index ascribes the ownership of Kozlowka to a religious foundation, but does not specify its area. Dlugosz does not mention this village. In 1581 (according to Pawifiski, Malopolska, 113) Uniszowa belonged to Jan Kilanowski and had 2 1/2 peasant lans, 2 homesteads with land, 1 peasant who owned cattle, and 3 peasants who did not own cattle. It borders on Kielanowice Dolne to the west, Ryglice to the east, Bistuszowa to the south, and Zalasowa and Tuchow to the north. [Mac.-Vol. XII, p. 810]. Uniszowa, a village in Tarnow powiat, located on the road from Tuchow (8.7 km. away) to Ryglice (3 km. away). It is situated in a hilly, wooded area on a stream that is a tributary on the right side of the Biala river where it joins it at Kielanowice Gorne. The village has 49 houses and 269 inhabitants. Its registered area is divided into two manor farmsteads, Uniszowa and Kozlowka (3 houses, 42 inhabitants). The village has 305 Roman Catholic and 6 Jewish inhabitants. The landed property, owned by Franciszek Zabecki, consists of 124 morgs of farmland, 7 of meadows, 390 sazens of orchards, 6 morgs of pastures, 150 morgs of forests, and 1,101 sazens of built-up plots of land. The minor estates consist of 292 morgs of farmland, 28 of meadows and orchards, 51 of pastures, and 6 of forests.

Pilat's Index ascribes the ownership of Kozlowka to a religious foundation, but does not specify its area.

Dlugosz does not mention this village. In 1581 (according to Pawifiski, Malopolska, 113) Uniszowa belonged to Jan Kilanowski and had 2 1/2 peasant lans, 2 homesteads with land, 1 peasant who owned cattle, and 3 peasants who did not own cattle. It borders on Kielanowice Dolne to the west, Ryglice to the east, Bistuszowa to the south, and Zalasowa and Tuchow to the north. [Mac.-Vol. XII, p. 810].

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 

Submitted by: Robert Bator, Chicago, IL. Translated by Anna Pawlik (2001)

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Ustronie

A manorial farmstead near the river Marycha in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 21 versts from the town of Sejny . There is one house and 6 inhabitants. The farmstead was until 1871 part of the manor of Holny Wolmera, with lands of 4267 morgs of which 1162 were arable, meadows 50 morgs, pasture 551 morgs, woodland 2489 morg ; coppice 4 morgs and barren 4 morgs. There were 4 wooden buildings and a las urzadzony, poklady torfu (tree nursery, …..peat??

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1893, vol. 12, pg. 848].

Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)

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