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Stanisław Winialski and Marianna Waleńska were married in 1875 in Hedwigchorst, Schubin, Bromberg, Posen, in Prussia, the German occupied part of Poland. It is now Chomętowo, Szubin, Nakło in the Gniezno Lake District of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

As listed on the Poznań Project, the marriage was registered in Mocker in Thorn, West Prussia. The village of Mokre was incorporated into the city of Toruń in 1906; it is currently a district on the right bank of the Vistula River in Toruń in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland. Because this area was German in 1875, the marriage record is in German.

In Polish

USC Mokre, akt nr 10, dnia 18.05.1875.

1) Gärtner ( ogrodnik ) Stanisław Winalski ( jego tożsamość potwierdził ogrodnik Stanisław Figulski ), katolik, lat 25, ur. Kikół, zamieszkały Mokre. Syn zmarłego dieners ( służącego ) Stanisława Winalskiego i jego żony Xavery ( Ksawery ) z domu Swizinska.

2) Marianna Walenska ( jej tożsamość potwierdził ogrodnik Stanisław Figulski ), katoliczka, lat 20, ur. Oszezeck ( Osieczek ) zamieszkała Obory. Córka Grundbesitzer ( właściciel ziemski ) Walentego Walenskiego i Marianny z domu Balzerowicz ( Balcerowicz ).

Świadkowie : Grundbesitzer Walenty Walenski lat 41 zam. Obory
i ogrodnik Stanisław Figulski lat 24 zam. Mokre

In English

USC Mokre, act No. 10, on May 18, 1875.

1) Gärtner (gardener) Stanisław Winalski (his identity was confirmed by gardener Stanisław Figulski), Catholic, 25 years old, born in Kikół, residing in Mokre. Son of the deceased dieners (servant) Stanisław Winalski and his wife Xavera (Ksawera) née Swizinska.

2) Marianna Walenska (her identity was confirmed by gardener Stanisław Figulski), Catholic, 20 years old, born on Oszezeck (Osieczek) lived in Obory. Daughter of Grundbesitzer (landowner) Walenty Walenski and Marianna née Balzerowicz (Balcerowicz).

Witnesses: Grundbesitzer Walenty Walenski, age 41 Obory
and gardener Stanisław Figulski, 24, resident Mokre

1875 Marriage of Stanislaus Winialski and Marianna Waleńska, Mocker, Thorn,

The marriage document was signed by

• Stanisław Winialski, the groom
• Marianna Waleńska, the bride
• Walenty Waleński, the bride’s father
• Stanisław Figulski, the groom’s brother-in-law

Stanisław Figulski and Marianna Winalska

Gardener Stanisław Figulski, who confirmed the identities of both the groom and the bride, was the son of Józef and Augusta Figulski. On 23 Mar 1872, he married Marianna Winalska, the daughter of Stanisław Winalski and Ksawera Świerczyńska, in Czernikowo, near Turiń. The records said they lived in Steklin, a nearby village with a manor house and estate park.

Stanisław Winalski and Ksawera Świerczyńska

Stanisław Winalski, the son of Fortunat Winalski and Marianna Rubalewska, married Ksawera Świerczyńska, daughter of Jan Świerczeński, deceased, and Ewa Habrowicz on 21 Nov 1848 in Kikól, Lipno, about 40 km (25 mi) southeast of Toruń.

Their children were Stanisław, born 1849, Antoni (1851-1853), and Marianna, born 1852. Józef Winialski, born about 1856, married Stanisława Mogulska in Kikół in 1878. He was reported to have died young after migrating to North America.

After the death of Stanisław, Ksawera Świerczyńska Winalska married Wincenty Kafarski in Lipno in 1861. Sadly, two of their children, Prakseda and Władysław, died in Rogowo in 1864 and 1865.

Walenty Waleński and Marianna Balcerowicz

Walenty Waleński, age 20, the son of Filip and Marianna Waleński, married Marianna Balcerowicz Krogul, age 27, in Nieżywięć on 24 Oct 1853. They were from the nearby village of Osieczek. Marianna was the widow of Jan Krogul, whom she had married in Nieżywięć on 24 Feb 1846, when he was 34 and she was 21 years old. They were from the nearby village of Osieczek, Briesen, Marienwerder, Westpreußen, Preußen.

On 18 Feb 1884, Jan Zbikowski, 25 years old, the son of Jan Zbikowski and Barbara Bąkowska, married Elżbieta Waleńska, the 18 year old daughter of Walenty Waleńska and Marianna Balcerewicz in Ruże. They were from the nearby village of Obory.

In Ruże, Walenty Waleński and Marianna Balcerowicz were listed as the parents of Ludwik Waleński, who died on 24 Sep 1889 in Kazimierzowo. He was 27 years old and left behind his wife Marianna.

Marianna Balcerowicz, the daughter of Antoni Balcerowicz and Salomea Lewandowska, was born in Osieczek on 13 Jul 1824 and baptized 16 Jul 1824 in Nieżywięć.

Places in Prussia and Congress Poland

Nineteenth century records for these families were in Polish, Latin, German, and Russian because they were Polish Roman Catholics and the places in which they lived were occupied by the Prussian and Russian Empires in the 1800s.

This Google map shows these places as they currently exist in Kujawsko-Pomorskie, the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.

• Chomętowo
• Toruń
• Mokre
• Czernikowo
• Kikół
• Obory
• Kazimierzowo
• Ruże
• Nieżywięć
• Osieczek

Here are the ancestors of Stanisław Winialski and Marianna Waleńska.

The research of our mutual relative in Poland, JC, has shown that Salomea Lewandowska was the sister of Łukasz Lewandowski, my great-great-great-grandfather. JC has done an especially fine job with our family tree in his MyHeritage website. He discovered that his great-great-grandmother Anastazja Lewandowska Wilczewska and my great-grandmother Weronika Lewandowska Maciejewska were sisters. We are indebted to him.

Along with many other wonderful volunteers, JC has kindly donated his time indexing Polish records on Geneteka, and these have helped immensely in tracing these family relationships. If you can, please consider a small donation to keep the indexing and digitization of Polish records going with the Geneteka and Metryki databases of Polskiego Towarzystwa Genealogicznego, the Polish Genealogical Society, at https://genealodzy.pl/tpay/donacje.php. If you wish to support the Poznań Project, make a donation by noting “donation for the Poznań Project” at https://www.paypal.me/PoznanProject. Sites like these make Polish family research both fun and productive.

Update May 2020: corrected place from Kazimierzewo to Kazimierzowo (Zbójno) between Obory and Ruże.

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