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If you are researching
the surnames BANASZYNSKI, ZACHARIAS or KWAPISZEWSKI
from the Angelica / Pulaski area of Shawano County, your prayers
have been answered! A few weeks ago,
Jill Bartell sent in
YEARS of her personal research to be shared with the Shawano GenWeb
Project, which includes FAMILY GROUP SHEETS, DESCENDANCY CHARTS &
some great OLD PHOTOGRAPHS. In Jill's email, she stated that she has
a three-fold purpose to sharing her research. They are:
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To provide other
researchers as much information as possible to aide in their
research.
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Gather as much
information that I can on my ancestors to aide in my research.
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Educate others with
the lives and times of those that settle in the Shawano County
area.
After reading her
well-documented genealogies, I feel she has successfully attained #1
& #3 -- and we're hoping that other researchers will help her
achieve #2 as well.
While I was reading
Jill's genealogy, I kept thinking about a well-known phrase from one
of my favorite authors, Janette Oke: "Never despise meager
beginnings" and this hard-working Polish family echoes this
principle. Jill's families from Angelica / Pulaski area followed a pattern of immigration and pioneering
that was quite common among the Polish families circa 1900...
Immigrants from Poland, as well as Germany, comprised a very large
percentage of the Shawano county population in the late 1800s and
early 1900s. First the father or one of the older children
would come to the US, then word soon came back to the "Old Country"
of the vast, fertile lands with opportunity for ANYONE to be a land
owner if they wanted to work. As in Jill's family, Polish
families immigrated to the Midwest states of Ohio, Pennsylvania &
Wisconsin and to cities like Milwaukee & Chicago -- here, they soon
heard about a man named J. J. Hoff who had land for sale as cheap as
$1 an acre in young rural communities of Polish Catholic families...
and they came by the hundreds... Hoff offered farm land that had
very recently been logged off for its timber -- the land was
inexpensive, the families were large and had plenty of able bodied,
hard-working men & boys to turn the tree stumped land into fertile,
green pastures. And they did. They lived the American
Dream of working hard and starting new lives for their families in
Wisconsin -- a very rich heritage indeed... As Jill pointed
out in one email, these families were LARGE and they tended to stay
in the same Angelica / Pulaski area for decades -- almost on the
same farm. Surely there are other researchers out there with
the same families -- Jill would LOVE to hear from you!!! Jill, many thanks
for sharing this with us and hopefully, family KWAPISZEWSKI &
BANASZYNSKI descendants will contact you -- the opportunity of a
lifetime for them as well-documented genealogies like this one
doesn't just fall in your lap every day!
Note: Jill has
included her Family Group Records in pdf format. Click on the
(pdf) after the name to see the original FGR or click on the
actual name to see a jpeg/gif file made from the pdf. Pdf
files require acrobat.
Jill has divided the
information into three groupings:
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Charles and Hattie
Banaszynski and their immediate family
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Frank and Marianna
Zacharias (Zacharyasz is the Polish spelling)
Note: This is Charles & Hattie Banaszynski's married daughter
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Casimir and Pelagia
Kwapiszewski (1st marriage)
Note: Frank and Marianna Zacharias' daughter, Maryann married Martin
Kwapiszewski, son of Casimir and Pelagia Kwapiszewski.
Charles (Karl) & Hattie (Jadwiga
in Polish)
married November 23, 1856 in Dobrzyca, Poland. They has a
large family of 12 children -- their oldest daughter Marianna
married Frank Zacharias and immigrated to the US, eventually
settling in Angelica Twp., Shawano County. Once Marianna &
Frank were settled, Charles and Hattie Banaszynski immigrated with
their other children on 11/12/1888 from Poland and settled on 140
acres in Angelica Township. When the family immigrated, they
all lived together on the families homestead located at 674
Deer Drive just three farms away from daughter, Marianna Zacharias. The
Charles & Hattie Banaszynski would call this "home" for the rest of
their lives. The family homestead was passed down through the
generations and finally was sold in 2006 to non-family members,
Wilbert and Nancy Lewis. It is now an organic farm and has
been parceled off for their own family members.
After marriage, three
sons (Frank, John and Vincent) continued to live in Angelica Twp.
until their deaths. Charles and Hattie along with their son Frank
and his wife Stella always lived on the family homestead until they
all died. Charles and Hattie's other children Nicholas, Andrew,
Louis, Albert and Stanley eventually moved to Milwaukee, where they
lived until death as did their children. They moved to Milwaukee
because there were other family members already living there at the
time. One in particular was Michael (married Julia Murkowski) Banaszynski whom Jill has
researched extensively (she has more on him that probably
Charles Banaszynski), but still has not learned if he was a brother
or cousin to Charles Banszynski. It is interesting about children
moving to Milwaukee because there are so many Banaszynski's that
live in the area. Jill is hoping to assist other researchers
put their puzzle pieces together and make a connection and in the
process, perhaps people researching Michael Banaszynski will come
forth and tell Jill how they are actually connected. And FAMILY
PAGES are a great way to accomplish this!
Descendants of Piotr Banaszynski
(pdf format - use 200% for easy
reading)
NOTE: If you cannot use pdf files to open the Descendancy
Charts, email me and I can
send it in another format to you.
Family Group Sheet (19 Mar 2008)
Prepared by Jill Carol Kwapiszewski
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Husband:
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Charles
Banaszynski |
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Born: |
30 Oct 1833 in Klonowo, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Married: |
23 Nov 1856 in Dobrzyca, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
09 Feb 1915 in Angelica
Township, Shawano CO., Wisconsin, USA |
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Burial: |
12 Feb 1915 in Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin |
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Father: |
Piotr Banaszynski
(pdf) |
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Mother: |
Lucyna Malysiak |
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Wife:
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Jadwiga
Walczak |
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Born: |
13 Oct 1838 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
23 Oct 1923 in Angelica
Township, Shawano CO., Wisconsin, USA |
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Burial: |
27 Oct 1923 in Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin
(headstone) |
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Father: |
Martin Walczak
(pdf) |
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Mother: |
Sophia Sztuk |
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Children: |
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1 - M |
Ambrozy Banaszynski
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Born: |
07 Dec 1857 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
Bef. 1910 |
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2 - M |
Nicholas Banaszynski |
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Born: |
07 Dec 1857 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
Apr 1927 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Burial: |
23 Apr 1927 in St Adalbert
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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3 - F |
Marianna Banaszynski |
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Born: |
10 Dec 1860 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
01 Mar 1941 in Angelica
Township, Shawano, Wisconsin |
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Burial: |
05 Mar 1941 in Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin |
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Married: |
04 Sep 1881 in Dobrzyca, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Spouse: |
Frank Zacharias |
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4 - M |
Francis Banaszynski
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Born: |
03 Oct 1862 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Prussia |
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Died: |
07 Nov 1934 in Angelica,
Shawano, Wisconsin |
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Burial: |
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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Spouse: |
Stella Chrobot |
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5 - M |
Valentine Banaszynski |
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Born: |
14 Feb 1865 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Prussia |
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6 - M |
John J. Banaszynski
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Born: |
25 May 1866 in Strzyzew, Plesnew,
Poznan, Prussia |
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Died: |
03 May 1952 in Pulaski, Brown,
Wisconsin |
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Burial: |
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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Married: |
03 Feb 1892 in Angelica,
Shawano, Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Constancya Wujek |
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Married: |
12 Aug 1895 in Angelica,
Shawano, Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Mary E. Wasielewski |
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7 - M |
Andrew J Banaszynski |
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Born: |
28 Nov 1868 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Prussia |
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Died: |
Mar 1919 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Buried: |
03 Mar 1919 in St Adalbert
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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Spouse: |
Balbina Krajewski |
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8 - M |
Vincent Banaszynski |
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Born: |
17 Jan 1871 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
13 Nov 1952 in Pulaski, Brown,
Wisconsin |
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Burial: |
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Church Cemetery, Pulaski, Brown, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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Married: |
16 Apr 1894 in Chase Township,
Oconto, Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Elizabeth Paubezka |
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9 - M |
Albert Banaszynski
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Born: |
17 Apr 1873 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan |
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Died: |
20 Jul 1875 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan |
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10 - M |
Louis Banaszynski
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Born: |
Abt. 14 Aug 1875 in Olesie,
Pleszew, Poznan, Prussia |
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Died: |
25 Jul 1955 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Buried: |
St Adalbert
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (headstone) |
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Married: |
01 Jan 1899 in Shawano County,
Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Marianna Karpinski |
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11 - M |
Albert Banaszynski
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Born: |
25 Mar 1879 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
16 Nov 1950 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Married: |
24 Jul 1900 in Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Elizabeth Wisoloski |
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12 - M |
Stanley Banaszynski |
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Born: |
23 Apr 1881 in Olesie, Pleszew,
Poznan, Poland |
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Died: |
13 May 1954 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Buried: |
St Adalbert
Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Married: |
21 Jan 1902 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Marianna Karpinski |
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Married: |
26 Jan 1904 in Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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Spouse: |
Henrietta Golambowski |
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And Jill's additional helps...
Name Origins
You will notice that the Polish surname changes in various
documents. There are a number of reasons for this.
-People went by names of the village in which they lived.
-People went by a derivative of their occupation.
-People went by the name of their farm.
-In Polish villages, two surnames of one person might be
used. One is the local surname only used in the rural
community; the other is the official surname, the only one
requested by the civil authorities. Double naming was more
universal in the 19th century when official names were not
always established. Often a change of residency meant a
family used a new surname.
Breaking down our family surnames
BANASZYNSKI / BANACH
Banaszynski / Banach = In Poland during the 1700’s to at least
1900, the Banaszyski Family would alternate between the
Banaszynski and Banach names.
Once living in the US some but not many Banaszynski
descendants changed their names to Banach. It has been told
the reason for this is because it was hard for the Pole to get
employment in very German Milwaukee. So they changed their
names to something more German or American sounding.
ZACHARYASZ / ZAHARIAS / ZAHARIS / ZAHARRIS
SZYMURA / SZYMON / SIMON
Zacharyasz = Polish Spelling
-The family used this name when in Poland.
-They also used this name in the early years living in the US.
-Zacharyasz is from a biblical name Zacheriah which comes from
Zakkaraj, “God bears in mind your merits”. Such a surname is
very well known in Poland. It appears that there are three
variations: Zacaryasz, Zacharasz and Zachariasz.
Zacharias = German Spelling
-They used this name once they immigrated to the US.
Note- Often times the family would alternate between both the
Zacharyasz and Zacharias names once they were living in the
US.
Zaharis / Zaharris = throughout the years, many Zacharias
family members changed there names to Zaharis and Zaharris.
Szymura / Szymon / Simon = Dating back to the 1700’s and
1800’s the family went by either Szymura, or Zacharyasz.
-Szymura is from a given name Szymon, in English Simon or
Simeon.
Note- Family folklore was that the Zacharyasz Family used the
name Simon before they moved to different locations in
Poland. The Polish spelling for Simon is Szymon. The surname
Szymura derived from the given surname Szymon.
KOWALSKI / GALEWSKI
Kowalski / Galewski = Dating back to the 1700’s the family
went by both the Kowalski and Galewski names.
-Galewski is from the village of Galewo, now spelled Galew.
-Kowalski is from places with the names Kawale, Kowalow or
Kawalew.
-Kowalski is the most popular name in the country. |
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Documents... |
Baptismal Record
Chas. Banaszynski
11/3/1833
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Baptismal Record
Jadwiga Walczak
10/20/1838
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Marriage Record
Chas. & Hattie
11/23/1856
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Passenger List
Chas. & Hattie
11/12/1888
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1898 Plat Map
Angelica Twp.
Section #26
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1911 Plat Map
Angelica Twp.
Section #26
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Possibly brothers James, Louis,
Albert & Andrew
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Charles Banaszynski's
Headstone
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John & Mary Banaszynski's Home
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Many Thanks, Jill, for
sharing this great family history!
Frank and Marianna
Zacharias' Story
Casimir and Pelagia
Kwapiszewski's Story
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