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Łabętnik
Labetnik, [Editor's Note: now spelled Labednik], village
and manorial farmstead, Augustow powiat, Barglow gmina, Rajgrod parish.
17 km. from Augustow, it has 26 houses, 255 inhabitants. In 1827 it was
a government owned village and had 22 houses and 131 inhabitants.ć
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw [1884, vol. 5, p. 558].
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 1998 Bulletin.

Łączki
Laczki, a village in Jaslo powiat, on the right bank
of the Wislok,* 246 meters above sea level, occupies a silt covered
river
basin in a plain enclosed to the west and south by hills reaching a height
of 370-377 m. absolute elevation. These hills are covered by forests.
To the north and east stretch fertile plains. Laczki has a Roman Catholic
parish, a 1-class people's school, and a gmina loan society with capital
of 342 zl. in Austrian currency, and is attached to the powiat court
and
post office in Frysztak, 9 km. away. Of the 426 inhabitants, 33 live
permanently on the major estate, 308 are of the Roman Catholic faith,
100 are Greek
Catholic, and 18 are Jews. The major estate, owned jointly by several
people, has an area of 180 morgs of farmland, 17 of meadows and gardens,
17 of pastures, and 11 of forests; the minor estate has 284 morgs of
farmland,
25 of meadows, 100 of pastures, and 11 of forests. Laczki used to belong
to the diocese of Krakow, but the parish church was in Leki [on modern
maps this appears to be the village named Leki Strzyzowskie], and until
the partitioning of Galicia the church in Laczki was a branch of that
one. But since the branch church was the more spacious and better maintained
one, the Austrian government made it the parish church, and the one
in
Leki the branch. It is made of brick, built in 1750 and consecrated in
1756. The parish belongs to the Diocese of Tarnow, deanery of Frysztak,
and includes Leki and its attached branch church, as well as Przybowka,
Widacz, Wojszowka [Wojaszowka], Wojkowa [Wojkowka], Wysoka, Rzepnik
and
Pietrusza Wola, with a total population of 2,569 Roman Catholics and
48 Jews. Laczki borders to the west and south on Wojsznwka, to the
east on
Rzepnik, and to the north on Leki. - Mac.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw [1884, vol. 5, pp. 629-30]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 1999 Bulletin.

Łapinóżek
Lapinózek - Manor and village in the district
of Rypin and township and parish of Osiek; 14 m. in distance from Rypin.
The village has 12
dwellings, 162 inhabitants; 501 acres of cultivated land and 19 acres
unprofitable. The nearby villages of Lamkowizna, Bogaczew, Chorablem,
Brzostów and Lawami contain 41 settlements; 50 dwellings; 319
inhabitants and 195 acres. The manor rights belong to Radziki Male.Source:
Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
[1884, vol. 5, pp. 591]
Submitted by Steven Skoropowski - Translated by Deborah Irwin

Lasek
Is a village in the administrative district of the Nowy
Targ (powiat). It is east from Nowy Targ and below the Gorce hill flows
the stream Lepietnica. Lasek borders on the north with Klikuszowa and
Pyzowka, on the west with Morawczyna and Krauszow, on the south with Ludzmierz,
and on the east with Nowy Targ and Niwa. On the west is the river Syraczka
North of the village is the hill Przyslop, 708 meters
above sea level. On the western border is Magdalenowka (folwark Ć estate,
manor), also known as Obroczna. There is a hill from the southeast of
the same folwark, 686 meters above sea level; the hill between Lepietnica
and Niwa of 636 meters above sea level. The southern part of the village
is forest (Bor on flat land) or Grel. The rest of the southern portion
or subdivision is known as Trute and is 624 meters above sea level.
The larger portion of the territory is 69 mr. field,
25 mr. of meadows and plowed land, 7 mr. of pastures, 170 mr. of field
and forest. As of 1869, the smaller portion of the territory consisted
of 994 mr, of field, 206 mr. of meadows and plowed land, 110 mr. of pastures,
6 mr of forest (1869).
In 1777, there were 73 houses, 370 Christians.
In 1779, there were 95 houses, 520 Christians, and 5 Jews
In 1824, there were 102 houses, 561 Christians, and no Jews.
In 1869, there were 128 houses, 679 Christians (324 men and 355 women).
In 1880, there were 738 Christians.
The village belongs to the parish in Klikuszowa.
In a document from 1636, it shows 5 farm homes, paying
a yearly total of 55 zl, 15 gr. Tax from the 3 farms were11 zl, and from
the empty fields, 6 zl. The total tax was 72 zl, 15 gr. In document of
1660, the village had 7 farms homes, 4 out workers, and 1 mill. They paid
a total of 106 zl, 20 gr. In 1765 there were 12 farms, 6 huts and 2 mills.
Income yearly from all came to 1294 zl, 3 gr, 15 den (?).
The court and post office are in Nowy Targ. The owner
was Eugenia Fihauser.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted and Translated by: Rose Szczech
(Apr 1998)

Laski
Laski, a settlement in Swiecie county,
on the stream Brzezina, in a sanded, woody area; 630 morgs of land, 67
buildings, 30 houses, with 132 Catholic inhabitants and 24 Protestant.
It is served by the Sliwice parish church and post office and the school
in Lazek. [Rev. Fr.] gliwice, German name Gross Schliewitz, a churchowned
village in the Tuchola Forest, on the river Sliwiczka, 25.7 km. northeast
of Tuchola, on the edge of Tuchola county. It is about 22 km. from the
railroad line TucholaStarogard and eastward; it has 1,622 hectares (26
of forests, 281 of meadows, 916 of farmland). In 1868 it had 985 inhabitants;
in 1885 it had 175 houses, 231 hearths, and 1,246 inhabitants, 1,142 of
them Catholic, 68 Protestant, and 36 Jewish. In 1887 Protestant services
were held here for the first time in the school building. There is a pastor,
but he does not yet have a church. There is a 4-classroom
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw [1884, vol. 5, pg. 85]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA
Fall 1999 Bulletin.

Lasocin
Link to Lasocin.

Latoszyn
Link to PGST
translation - text and photos.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw. Translated by Martin
Kurtin.

Łazduny
Lazduny, a small town in Oszmiana county;
3rd police district; 66.3 Miles from Wilno and 41.8 miles from Oszmiana;
456 inhabitants; the property is owned partly by the government treasury
and partly owned by Weronika Korwin Milewska. In 1817 the town and estate
were the property of Jozef Wolodkiewiez, then later of Samuel Laniewski
Wolk, from whom it went to Milewska. The town has a branch of the Subotniki
parish church, named for Sts. Simon Jude and Anne. It was founded in 1744
and made of wood, and rebuilt in 1853 by Samuel Wolk; the branch has 4,336
souls.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw [1884, vol. 5].
Translated by Michael Gansecki and William
F. Hoffman, PGSA May 2000 Rodziny.
Lazduny, in Oszmiana powiat. In 1407 Jan Monwid, voivode
of Wilno, received Lazduny, along with other benefits, from the Grand
Duke of Lithuania, Witold. For centuries afterwards it belonged to the
Radziwill family, who mortgaged it. Among others, the Dominicans from
Poporcie leased it at the beginning of the 18th century (until 1787).
Later Bishop Zienkowicz of Wilno took it over. In 1806 the last possessor
of entail, Prince Dominick Radziwill, made a present of Lazduny to Jozef
Wollowicz, from whom Samuel Wolk (-Laniewski) acquired it around 1810.
It later went by way of dowry to Edmund Korsak, from whom his brother-in-law,
Oskar Milewski, redeemed it. Today, it isowned by his son Hipolit.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw [Vol. XVb, p. 261].
Translated by Michael Gansecki, PGSA
August 2000 Rodziny. Used with permission

Leki Dolne,
- Górne
Two villages in Pilzno powiat, on the
county road from Pilzno to Rygiel. Leki Dolne is located 4 km. west of
the town of Pilzno, Leki Górne is 4 km. farther west. Both villages are
in an area of rolling countryside, covered to the north and south by fir
forests, on a small tributary of the left bank of the Wisloka. There is
a Roman Catholic parish church in Leki. The populace of Leki Dolne consists
of 1,538 persons, of whom 21 live on the grounds of the major estate,
owned by the Tarnów Savings Bank, and 14 live on the manorial farmstead
called "Wygoda." The population of Leki Górne consists of 1,700
persons, of whom 122 live on the grounds of the major estate, the property
of W. Brzozowski. The ecclesiastical szematyzm gives the total
population as 3,390 Roman Catholics and 159 Jews. In Leki Górne there
is a church made of larch wood dating from 1312, with a beautiful Byzantine
image on the side altar; there was also once a prebenda called St. Wojciech's,
funded by Wojciech Romer with income from 4 peasant farms, but it was
abolished in 1836. There is also a fund for the needy, established 19
November 1795 by Michal and Katarzyna Letowski, who increased the previous
fund of Wojciech Romer from 1638 for the upkeep of 13 paupers. This fund
has a capital of 500 zlotys in Austrian currency and a yearly addition
of 131 zlotys from the owners of Leki Dolne. The pastor administers the
fund. A national school is located in Leki Górne.
In Dlugosz's day (see Dfugosz, Liber beneficiorum, Vol. I, p.
811) Leki belonged to Zaklika of Miedzygórz, and it had 20 peasant lans.
Siarczyiiski mentions (manuscript in the Ossolineum Library, Vol. I, p.
255) that at the beginning of this century flax cultivation flourished
here, and that there were many weaving establishments. At that time Leki
Dolne belonged to the Bobrownicki family, and Leki Górne to the Lubieniecki
family. Emigration to America from Leki motivated Anczyc to write
Emigracya chlopska [Translator's note: "Peasant Emigration'~- apparently
referring to a work by the writer Wladyslaw Ludwik Anczyc, 1823-1883].
In the 17th century Aryans of the Lubieniecki family built a Baroque-style
meeting-place in Leki Górne, which was abandoned after the fall of Aryanism
[Translator's Note: the Arianie, also called the Bracia
Polscy, "Polish Brothers," a radical socio-religious movement in the
17th century, connected with the Socinians, were expelled from Poland
in 1658] and was turned into a manor sometime after 1830. It is a
two-story tenement with a mezzanine and two decorative side facades reminiscent
of the Sukiennice in Kraków. Downstairs and on the second floor are rooms
with beautiful arched vaults; in one half of the house there was a chapel.
The building stands in a lovely garden with ancient beeches and spruces.
Warsaw's Tygodnik illustrowany [Illustrated Weekly] gave a sketch of the
manor in 1882.
The major estate in Leki Górne has 633 morgas of farmland, 74 of meadows
and gardens, 115 of pastureland, and 655 of woods; the minor estate has
2,139 morgas of farmland, 288 of meadows and gardens, 405 of pastureland,
and 108 of woods. The major estate in Leki Dolne has 681 morgas of farmland,
72 of meadows and gardens, 38 of pastureland, and 389 of woods; the minor
estate has 1,513 morgas of farmland, 234 of meadows and gardens, 180 of
pastureland, and 150 of woods.
The parish belongs to the Diocese of Tarnów, deanery of Pilzno, and it
has a branch church in Machowa. Leki borders to the east on Dolczówka,
to the west on Szynwald, to the north on Podgórska Wola and Machowa, and
to the south on Zwiernik and Zalasowa.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw [1884, vol. 5, pp. 663-664]
Submitted by: Rita Koziol, Scottsdale AZ.
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Fall 1998 Bulletin.

Lendowo
- in the County of Mazowsze
A nobles village, in the township and parish of
Piekuty, 3Kms from Piekuty and 18 Kms from the county seat. There are
7 homes, 48 Roman Catholic inhabitants, 80 acres, land of medium soil,
and plenty of brushwood for fire.
Lendowo came into existence in 1880 on the land of the
estate of Markow the Great within the Russian Empire; the owner, having
80 acres of land in the territory of the Polish Kingdom, sold it to the
nobles.
The new village lies on the boundary of the Empire and
the Kingdom, it previously had the name of the sacred spot of Buda; from
the settlement of nobles it was named Lendowo, in honor of the priest
Lendo, the former administrator of the parish in Piekuty, now administrator
of the parish in Jedwabne in the county of Kolno. The name of the village
was approved by the authorities.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw 1884
Submitted by: Stan Schmidt, 106 S. Hill St., Roselle,
IL 60172 (Dec 1996)

Les~no / Leszno
In documents of the Knights of the Cross: "Leyste".
A knightly estate and peasant parish village in the county of Chojnice,
between 2 lakes: little- and great- Lubowo (?) or Luban~ (?), from which
flows out the stream Zbrzyca, in a forested and sandy area, at the boundary
with Koscierzyna county and on the Chojnice-Koscierzyna man road. Lesno
is 8,579 morgs in size; has 72 buildings, 26 chimneys, 300 Catholics,
12 Evangelicals (Lutherans). Parish and school in town, post office at
Brusy. The knightly estate by itself contains 468 hectares of arable land,
152 ha. of meadow, 329 ha. of pasture, 967 ha. of forest, 41 ha. unused,
104 ha. of water, all together 2,062 hectares. The heir (owner) is Pawel
Sikorski. Three fairs are held yearly: for cattle, horses and kramne(?).
Also the post office has been set up right in Lesno just recently.
In 1354 Winryk von Kniprode, the grand master of the
Knights of the Cross, signed over as hereditary possession by Che1m law
40 hides in "Leyste" (Lesno) and the lake Mate Lubowo to Dytryk in boundaries
as they are designated.
"The great lake Luban we keep for ourselves. For this
Dytryk will perform service in war armed and with horse; he will also
give help in building castles, etc. And because the soil is not rich,
they will give us each year from each hide a bushel of wheat, also to
the bishop (let them do) their duty." A ze tam role skape,
miasto pluznego dadza nam co rok od wloki po korcu owsa, takze i biskupowi
powinnosc swoje uczynia.
In Polish times the estate of Lesno lay in the starostaship
of Tuchola. The Lustration of the year 1570 writes: "In the village of
Lesno there are 4 empty hides, 2 inns, and 5 hortulani (scil.? beside
the noble estate)." In 1664 we read, "In Lesno there are 40 hides, 4 soltyses
(head of a hamlet, below a wojt, 4 pastors, for which they showed they
had received the right of inheriting from the Knights of the Cross. King
J.M. (Jego Majestat) Wladyslaw IV confirmed this right in 1636; 3 Lehnmann
(rented out?) hides; they showed the right of "Lehn" confirmed from Jan
Kazimierz in 1652; the "Lehners" give 137 zlote in rent. Two soltyses
and 4 innkeepers of Lesno are obliged to serve together with others according
to a prescribed order (chain of priority) as forest guards over wild bees'
nests and the virgin forest. In 1686 the "possessor" was Jezierski. A
new wooden church was built here in 1710; it was from earlier times a
filial church connected to Brusy; only after the restitution of the original
parish system was it detached as an independent parish by the decree of
Feb. 10, 1859, mostly by the efforts of Jerzy Jeszki, suffragan bishop
of Chelm. Lesno parish counts 2748 souls. The title of the church is the
Holy Cross, it is not known when it was founded or consecrated. Next to
it is a hospital for 4 poor, run by the brotherhood of sobriety from 1861.
The villages in the parish are Lesno, Orlik, Larnk, Gltowczewice,
Warsin, Kaszuba, Widno, Laska Stara, Laska Nowa, Rolbik, Kruszyn, Paszyn,
Windorp, Peplin, Skoszewo, Skoszewko, Zwangshof, Ledy, Wysoka, Kloniecznica,
Trzebun, Radun, Dunajki.
Catholic schools: in Lesno 77 Catholic children; the
teacher is at the same time organist; in Trzebun 78 children; in Windorp
84; in Widno 55; in Radun 67. See Transcripts of Dreger, a manuscript
in the archives of Peplin, p. 106; the transcripts of the Tuchola privilege,
a manuscript from Belno (?), p. 59, also schema of the diocese of Chelm,
p. 289.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh,
PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2001)

Lidzbark
- in the County of Brodnica
- Ger. Lautenburg or Luttenberg, Lutenburg. Liczburg.
Ludbarz (found in documents listed as such), town and village and a forestry
region belonging to the king, county Brodnica on the paved road leading
from Brodnica to Dzialdowo, near the East Prussia border on a significant
lake Lidzbark and the river Wel, which crosses it and enters river Drweca,
besides from the court (sheriffs) ponds, there used to flow here a stream
called Struzka entering river Wel.
1) the town, area of 5644 acres, 612 buildings, 235 households
and 3734 residents - 1244 Catholics and 1725 Evangelical in Lidzbark There
are here Catholic and Protestant parish churches, a 3-grade Catholic school,
Lutheran city schools, Post Office, Telegraph station, magistrate, a city
council, a district court (Amtsgericht), a customs office, pharmacy, a
physicisan, etc. A railroad from Jablonowo to Brodnica, Lidzbark and Dzialdowo
is being planned in connection with the Malbork-Mlawa line.
According to an unofficial description, from 1868 (Stat.-topogr.
Addressbuch van West-Pressen) there were in Lidzbark 2 forges, 2 waterpowered
mills, 1 sawmill, 3(?) breweries, 5 leather furriers, 2 wheelwrights,
9 bakers, 2 sweetshops, 1 watchmaker, 19 butchers, 9 leathermakers, 86
(?) shoemakers, 2 ropemakers, 16 taylors, a hatmaker, 8 weavers, 4 bricklayers,
4 carpenters, 4 coopers, 2 woodworkers, 2 printmakers, 1 combers, 1 chimneysweep,
6 chimney builders, 2 glassmakers, 7 smiths, 1 potmaker, 1 nailmaker,
1 sheet metalworker, 2 barbers/surgeons, 1 tobacco factory, 1 cotton factory
2 painters. Yearly markets take place 4 times for cattle, horses and stalls.
From the history of town very scant information remains.
As the church records mention, the town with the church was founded about
1301 on the German law. The first known privilege it received only in
1410 under the rule of Master Ulryk van Juningen. That master of the Knights
of the Cross also created the donation document of the church here in
1409 (Pawel von Russdorf is in the records). The town Lidzbark had under
the Knights of the Cross a fortified castle. The population, both in the
town and in the outlying area was from the beginning mostly Polish, as
the names of villages in those days testify, though their Polish character
the Knights were trying hard to erase. And so, among others, the Knights'
twisted name Bladau, Blendorf means today's village of Bladowo, Bulkendorf=Belki,
Dwor 1410, Hof=dwor, Gelen=Jelen, Klonau=Klonowo, Leinau=Linowiec(?),
Melensdorf=Mlyniki, Renk, Reyneke=Rynek, Selste, Selze=Chelsty, Stibor=Ciborz,
Wamperschke=Wapiersk, Weyer.=Wery, etc. See Ketrzynski, Polish population,
page 87. In Polish times Lidzbark town consisted with attached area of
starostwo [county office] non-city Lidzbark. In 1531 King Zygmunt I, desifing
to better the situation of that town, introduced markets and trade fairs
here. In 1703 the Swedes razed large part of the town together with the
main church, but were next seriously defeated by the Poles. According
to the last inspection of the area performed in 1765, the castle didn't
exist anymore, and only a manor house stood in Lidzbark by the fiver.
In 1807 a large number of Prussian and Russian soldiers were led through
the town and stationed here. In 1855 came here the first Lutheran pastor.
Non-city area of Lidzbark, in province Chelmno, land
of Michalow, county Brodnica, according to inspection of 1664 included
the town and villages Wompiersk, Jeleniec, Jamielnik and farm Podciborski.
In 1771 it belonged to Stefan Rumocki and his wife Anna born Plaskowska,
who paid from it quarter payments of 1071 Polish zloty and 7 groszy. From
13 Sep. 1772 it was under Prussian rule. Parish Lidzbark, diocese Lidzbark
includes 3580 souls. A Church of St. Adalbert (Wojciech) patronate of
the government, founded in 1301, date of consecration unknown. There is
a hospital for the poor from 6 parishes, brotherhood of szkaplerz since
1647 and of sobriety since 1859.
The parish villages: Lidzbark town, Lidzbark suburb or
old town (German Amtsgrund Lautenburg), Belki, Bladowo, Borki, Chelsty,
Ciborz, Brynsk, Ciechanowko, Jamielnik, Jelen, Klonowo, Koty, Kurodaj,
Milostaj, Nowy Dwor, Nosek, Piaseczno, Podciborz, Polko, Wlewsk, Wapiersk,
brickmaking factories: in Wlewsk, Jamielnik, Ciborz and Jelen. Catholic
Schools: in Lidzbark (3-grade, 314 children), in Wlewsk (55 children)
in Ciborz (60), in Nowy Dwor (71), in Wapiersk (59) and in Jelen (61).
30 Catholic children attend the evang. school in Brynsk. Until recently
there was a second church in Lidzbark - the church of the Ascention of
the Holy Virgin Mary in the Old town, (Ger. Amtsgrund Lautenburg). At
first it was a church with a rectory, with a city cemetery and a hospital
and had its own parish priests. During Lutheran reformation it gradually
felLidzbark In the beginning of XVII century, it was again lifted off
the ground by a good townsman, Wodciech Kotek and was consecrated in 1606
by bishop of Chelmno, Gebicki and joined with the city church as its branch.
In the main altar it had a precious picture of Virgin Mary with Jesus
by the then famous painter, Borzymowski. The above mentioned Kotek donated
to the Church to better its situation two pieces of ground in Jamielnik,
Anna Bobrowa gave other two pieces of ground, which were later transfered
to the city church. Marcin Pudlo gave 1/2 parcel, etc. In 1647 the "brotherhood
of the scapular" was created here. Unfortunately, in the folowing
hard times, mainly because of the Swedish wars, it came near a fall for
the second time. The second donor was Marcin Chelstowski, undersecretary
of Chelmno, who again.lifted the church from the fall in 1712. New organs
were bought - probably - by his wife. This church was consecrated by Bishop
Feliks Kretkowski in 1725. After the Prussian occupation the Lutherans
were waiting to take this church over. In 1800 there was already a decree
ready to that effect, however a definitive response of Bishop Rydzynski
saved it for a rejoicing district. Great help gave also the then parish
priest, Matyszkiewicz, who watched over this church for over 33 years
and didn't even leave the town in a dangerous moment so as not to make
the annexation easy for those of other faiths. In 1807 he writes to his
superiors:
"Through Lidzbark were led 1000 POWs, that is
Russians, who were herded into the church, because it was in the suburbs.
They spent the night there and desecrated the holy house to a great
degree. The second time, 500 POWs, mostly Prussians, were led into
the church, who broke down the benches, confessionals, altars and
even set fire to the church to save themselves, but fortunately, the
fire was noticed soon enough."
In the following times, the weakly-made church was falling
ever more, in 1850 it was taken apart and sold for 200 talars. See lost
churches in the Chelmno diocese, page 137.
Besides the above mentioned church, in Lidzbark there
were two other churches, originally parish churches, in Wlewsk and Wapiersk.
The Lidzbark diocese now quite small for many reasons, include. 8377 souls,
4 parish churches: in Lidzbark, Boleszyn, Mroczno and Radoszki, plus a
branch in Kielpin. In the old days it had twice as many churches and the
2 still existing in Lecko and Przelek are in the newly created diocese
in Pomezan and 3 mentioned above are gone in Lidzbark, Wapiersk and Wlewsk.
There are 14 parish schools in in diocese, 5 ministers.
2) Lidzbark village and mill, 107 acres, 29 bldgs, 148
Catholic, 88 Evangelical.
3) Forestry royal region Lidzbark, newly created in 1877.
See. Dzialdowka.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw 1888
Submitted by: Martin C. Mazurk, 857 Euclid, Elmhurst,
IL 60126 (Dec 1996)

Ligowo
As recorded in 1884, the village and estate is in the
Lipno district township Osiek, and is located 22 kilometers from Lipno;
with a wooden parish church, an elementary school and an inn. In 1827
there were 21 houses and 168 inhabitants. In 1884 the village had 15 houses
and 232 inhabitants.
Actually Ligowo is the biggest village close to Boguchwala
and has a magnifi- cent Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church constructed about
1910.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny
Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1881-1886
Submitted by: Henryk Skrzypinski, From the PGS of California
Newsletter

Lipa
Lipa, (Upper and Lower) - in Ukrainian Lypa, is a village
in the county of Dobromil, 35 km. northeast of Dobromil, 5 km. northwest
of the county court and post office in Bircza, 22 km. north-northwest
from the nearest railroad station in Zalupu. Jawornik Ruski and Zohatyn
lie to the northwest, Kotow to the northeast, Rudowka to the east, Malawa
to the southeast, Brzyzawa to the southwest and Ulucz to the west. The
stream called Brzyzowka flows to the southwest for a short distance along
the western border from south to north. Flowing in the same direction,
it flows into the village then twists to the southwest towards Malawa
where its name changes to Malawka. It is fed by smaller streams from both
its right and left banks.
The buildings in the village are located throughout
its whole land area and from various groups of houses and sub-settlements
called Capera (aka Capora), Kiczary, Kopanie, Kuzie, Lackie, Przysada,
Uluckie, and Wola (aka Morochow). In the southwest part of the village's
land area, the Sucha mountain rises to an elevation of 475 meters. The
larger land holdings consist of 604 morgs of arable land, 47 morgs of
fields and gardens, 97 morgs of grazing area and 582 morgs of forest.
The lesser land holdings consist of 1,228 morgs of arable land, 126 morgs
of fields and gardens, 349 morgs of grazing area and 43 morgs of forest.
In 1880 there were 1,250 people in the district, of whom 13 resided in
the manor.
Of this population 160 were Roman Catholic, the rest
were Greek Catholic. The Roman Catholic parish is in Bircza. There is
a Greek Catholic church in the village. It is in the deanery of Bircza,
Diocese of Przemysl, belonging to it also are Brzezawa, Dobrzaka, and
Malawa. In the village is a Greek Catholic church, a one class school
house, mill and sawmill.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw 1882
Translated into English by Prof. Jonathan Shea.

Lipnica Dolna,
- Gorna
Link to PGST
translation - text.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw.

Lipniunce
A village in the parish and gmina Kopciowo, powiate,
Sejny. 42 versts from Sejny. 26 houses and 274 residents. There was
no village here in
1827 nor in Skorowidzu Zinberga.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego -
Warsaw [1884, vol. 5 p. 277].
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England,
Dorfleiv@aol.com (May
2004)

Lipno
Translation available through PGS of California http://pgsca.org/reprints.html

Lipuska Huta
In German, Lippuschhutte. A peasant village in Kokierzyna
county, about 2 miles from Koscierzyna, given by privilege from Gdailsk
on April 1, 1820. It encompasses ],10 1 morgs; has 4 gburs, 18 zagrodniks,
108 Catholics, 12 dwelling houses. Parish and school at Lipusz, post office
at Kalisz. - Ks. F.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh,
PA, gschmidt50909282@aol.com
(Feb 2001)

Lipuska Huta
Szlanna
In German Lippusch-Glashutte. Estate and glass factory
in the county of Koscierzyna. It embraces an area of 95 ha. of which 88
are in arable land, .30 ha. are in meadow, 1.50 ha are in pasture, .40
ha are in forest and 3.90 ha. are unused. The possessor is Karol Hindenberg.
The parish and school are in Lipusz; the post office is in Kalisz. There
are 68 Catholics and 48 Lutherans. There are 7 dwelling houses. The distance
from Koscierzyna is 2 1/2 miles. In Polish times this estate was the property
of the starosta of Koscierzyna; after the occupation, it was given into
perpetual leasehold by a privilege from Kwidzyn on 24th of July, 1810.
- Ks. F.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh,
PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2001)

Lipuska Papiernia
In German, Lippusch-Papier-Muhle. A possession, with
a mill, in Koscierzyna county, on Czarna Woda. It encompasses a total
area of 165.91 ha. of which 102 ha. is arable land, 25 ha. is meadow,
20 ha. is pasture; 2.5 ha. are not used, 15 ha. is water. The possessor
is Zelewski. There are 29 Catholics, 43 Lutherans, 6 dwelling houses.
The parish and school are at Lipusz. The post office is at Wygoda. The
distance from Ko'cierzyna is 2 miles. In Polish times there was a paper
mill here, the property of the starosta of Koscierzyna and paper really
was made at the mill. in more recent times mainly because of the inconvenience
of placement, the manufacturing of paper was abandoned and the old mill
was turned into a water mill and sawmill. This estate received privileges
in Polish times, e.g., in 1582; in Prussian times in 1831 when it was
given over into perpetual lease. - Ks. F.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh,
PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2001)

Lipusz
In German Lippusch. A peasant church village in the county
of Koscierzyna on the river Czarna Woda, which turns a mill here and a
sawmill, 1/4 mile from the beaten track between Chojnice and Koscierzyna,
at the border of (the German province of) Pomerania and the Polish county
of Kartuzy. It embraces in addition Folwark Lipuski and adjacent built-up
areas: Karpno, Konitop, Krugliniec, Lubiszewo, Mechowo, and Wallachei;
it encompasses 8,334 morgs, 12 gburs (probably same as coloni: farmers
with enough land, equipment and a horse to support themselves), 16 zagrodniks
(hortulani: farmers with less than that amount, who usually don't own
their house but do get to cultivate a small vegetablegarden for themselves),
557 Catholics, 107 Lutherans, 55 dwelling houses.
In the place are a Catholic parish church, a Lutheran
church filial to the one in Koscierzyna, a sawmill, a water mill, 3 inns.
There are 2 yearly fairs - for barter and cattle; there are Catholic and
Lutheran schools. The post office is at Kalisz. The distance from Koscierzyna
is 2 miles. It is the property of Zeleski. In Polish times Lipusz constituted
the estate of the starosta of Koscierzyna. In 1560 Mikoiaj Kostka, province
of (Polish) Pomerania, was the renter (tenuta) of Lipusz. In 1765 Lukasz
Piechowski. In 1743 the impious innkeeper from Zolno, condemned to death
for blasphemy, ransomed himself by means of a large sum of money, which
by and by found its way to building the present church. In 1746 was erected
in Lipusz a new church dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul, in whose honor
was a great church festival and fair. In 1779 the folwark was put out
to perpetual lease by a privilege of Jan. 27th in Kwidzyn.
Lipusz parish counts 3,569 souls. It is not known when
the church dedicated to St. Michael archangel, under state patronage was
founded. After the earlier one's being burnt down, a new one was built
around 1867. there is no hospital connected to the church. There is a
"Brotherhood" of the Rosary from 1715 and of Sobriety from 1855. The villages
in the parish are: Lipusz, Kalisz, Tuszkowy, Skwierawy, Grzybowo, Plocice,
Wawrzyniec, Dziemiany, Lipuska Huta, Sluza, Jabluszko, Dywan, Pelki, Trawice,
Turzonka, Borowiec, Kruszewo, Slone Wielkie i Male, Wyrowno, Szwedzki
Ostrow, Schodno, Gostomko, Zolno, Sciborz, Zdroje
Catholic parish schools: 1. In Lipusz with 90 children;
2. in Kalisz with 99 children; 3. in Dziemiany with 132 children; 4. in
Tuszkowy with 87 children and 5. in Skwierawy. -Ks. F.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw 1884
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh,
PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2001)

Lubiewo
Link to
Suchomski Ancestry Website.
Translation by James D. Summers.

Lubla
A village in Jaslo county, lies in a wooded area covered
with hummocks, on the stream Lubla, which empties into the Wislok; the
village is on the highway from Kolaczyce to Frysztak. Buildings stand
on both banks of the river, the church on the right and the cemetery on
the left. A road leads from the village to Jaslo. On the north and south
woods obstruct the view. L. has 1,645 inhabitants, of whom 47 have steady
employment on the grounds of the major estate; they are Roman Catholics,
except for 20 Jews. There is a Roman Catholic parish here, a public school,
and a district loan society with a capital of 597 zl. in Austrian currency.
At one time Lubla belonged to the Krakow diocese and was the property
of the Koprzywnica abbey. In the parish records there is a copy of the
church's founding on 3 July 1314 by Wieslaw Bonar, the owner of the village;
but this document is probably forged, because in lists of churches from
1326 and 1328 this one is not mentioned. [Historian Jan] Dlugosz mentions
(in "Liber beneficiorum," II, 278) only the name of the
village "Lublya." Also speaking against the genuineness of this
document is the fact that Wieslaw (Vislavs) Bonar signs it in his own
hand, instead of affixing his seal, contrary to the usual custom of the
time. It would seem the church existing today was funded by the Pokrzywnica
abbots. In 1669 (up to 1818) Przemysl bishop Andrzej Trzebicki combined
the parishes in Lubla and Sieklo wka.
The parish belongs to the diocese of Przemysl, Frysztak deanery. The major
estate, owned by Ludwik Dzianott, covers an area of 365 morgs of farmland
and 231 of woods; the minor estate has 1,433 of farmland, 191 of meadows
and gardens, 218 of pastures, and 165 of woods. Lubla is bordered on the
south by Sieklo wka,
on the east by Widacz, on the north by Glinnik Sredni, and on the south
by Niepla and Biro wka.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny
Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: This translation, by William F. Hoffman,
first appeared in the November 1997 issue of "Polish Footprints,"
the publication of the Polish Genealogical Society of Texas, and appears
here with express permission of the PGS-TX. (Nov 1997)
Link to PGST
translation - text and photos.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego
- Warsaw. Translated by Martin
Kurtin.

Lubostron
Lubostron is a Dominion or large Manorial Farm located in the powiat of Szubin overlooking the Notec. Located there are 3696 morgs of tillable fields and gardens and 19 homes/farmsteads. In the year 1880 there were about 330 inhabitants, whereas in the year 1871 there were 352 inhabitants: 12 Protestant, 340 Catholic, of these 133 were illiterate. There is a Post Office and Telegraph at Labiszynie about 4 km away and a railroad station at Chmiel about 15 km away.
Lubostron has a beautiful Palace built by the grandparents of the current owner hr. (Countess) Leona Skorzewski, according to the plans and drawings of the architect Zawadski. About the year 1880 Lubostron dropped the reference to Pilatowo and only Count Fredrick Skorzewski, inspiring palace, would be known as Lubostron. (See Labiszynie for further detail.)
Near Lubostron, a large pagan tomb was discovered and opened. Inside was a circular covering plate of stone. From this tomb were extracted 17 burial urns.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Translated by Jim Piechorowski, PGSA Member #6005/6151, July 2005; families: Piechorowski / Piechurowski 
Luszowice
Please email Patricia for translation.

Lutcza
In 1536 Ludcza, a village in Rzeszów county.
According to Dlugosz the village had a parish church, Birth of Our
Lady. The lord was Czepielowski
of Gryf arms. The village of Zakobyle, in which the Gryfits had their
seat, belonged to the parish (Liber beneficiorum, II, 259). One part
of Lutcza took the name Domaradz from a certain Domarat. In 1536 Stanislaw
Domaradzki and Bernard Czepielowski owned the estate in Lutcza. In 1536
Zakobyle bore the name Domaradz Dolny (inferior) [“Lower Damaradz”—the
Latin inferior is not a reflection on the village’s quality, but
the Latin equivalent of dolny, “lower”]; it was the seat
of Stanislaw Domaradzki. The village was appraised at 800 grzywnas [an
ancient coin], whereas Lutcza was only 600 grzywnas.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Warsaw [1902, vol. 15-2, pg. 250]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA
Summer 2004 Rodziny.

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