Sunday, December 13, 2020

Uhnów in Galicia Austria -Origin of 4th great grandparents Kaszucki

Yesterday I told you about Fedory and Teodor and that they were born in Ulanów. It is now in the Ukraine. It was part of Galicia owned by Austria during the time period that these records are from. The location is referred to as "Uhnev" in Ukrainian. In Polish, it is Uhnów or Ulanów. It is also known as Ugnov/Ugnuv/ UhnСw/Ugnev. Obviously due to my lack of language and history knowledge, I have no idea of the reasons for the variations. Fedor’s name is an Ukrainian form of the English name Theodore. The two similarly named brothers, along with their brother Andrzej (my 3rd great grandfather) moved to Tomaszow when they were young men, before they married. It is approximately two miles south of the present Polish/Ukraine border. It is about 30 miles to the city of Tomaszow. It looks like you have to travel south before you can connect to a road to get to Tomaszow. Google Maps says, "This route has tolls. This route crosses a country border.Your destination is in a different time zone." It was under Austria in the Province of Galicia up to 1918. My 4th great grandparents, Lukasz Kaszuki, a furrier, and Agata nee Kraczk, lived there and likely had other children that remained there. Andrzej and his brothers were born there in the 1790 to 1800 era. By 1816, one brother was marrying in Tomaszow and in 1823, Andzej was also marrying a woman from Tomaszow, in Tomaszow. I do not profess to understand the geography or the history of all this and am giving a simplified and probably not completely accurate account. During this time period, 29% of the people were of Polish origin while Ukrainians made up 70% and there were a very small number of people of German descent. Photo credit: Uhnow | historiaregionu Regionally dressed peasants in Uhnow-Rawa-Poddubce region in a photo of a 19th century painting by Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222479153154792&set=p.10222479153154792&type=3&theater

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