[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] PLOCK AREA

[Jerry Frank]

The 'c' at the end of a Polish word carries a 'ts' sound so your Liepovets 
is almost certainly the same as Lipowiec.

The bad news is that there are at least 16 Lipowiec in Poland and none are 
particularly close to Plock.  Two of them are known to have German 
settlers.  One of those is 6 km due W of Lipno (about 52 km NW of Plock) 
and the other 12 km SW of Ciechanow (about 62 km ENE of Plock).

Rakaw is probably Rakow but again there are 10 in Poland with none near 
Plock (though you didn't say it should be).  One of these near the south 
side of old Warsaw city (variant spelling Rokow and within city limits of 
the modern city) is known to have had German settlers.

I don't know that any of these villages had Moravian connections as 
suggested by others for the Freiheit surname.  However, it is not a 
particularly common surname so you should not rule it out.

Although all your surnames (with KAROW and KARO as variants of your KAROH) 
appear in the SGGEE databases, I don't see any for those specific 
villages.  Also, the fact that we only have 2 Lipowiec and 1 Rakow with 
German settlers at the present time should not, without further evidence, 
preclude you from considering other locations with the same or similar 
names.  Though we have most villages in our list, we continue to add others 
on a regular basis.

Do you have any other family data that might help with pinning down the 
location?



At 12:50 PM 01/01/2003 -0800, JUSTIN L DINGMAN wrote:
>I'm new to the list and now writing my first of many questions.
>
>Names that I'm tracing: FREIHEIT, WITT, LIPKE, KAROH
>
>Does anyone know of these family names? They lived in places called
>Liepovets, spelling by what its sounded like.  This was the Freiheit
>line.  The Witt line had a farm in Lipowiec and also a Julian Freiheit
>had a farm there also, which was supposed to have been the Freiheit
>family property.   My Great-grandfather also said his father had three
>farms, and said that the largest nearby city was Plock.  Another family
>(KAROH) lived in Rakav according German Records of Birth, which were
>taken during the time German Nazi were in charge.
>
>Does anyone have pictures of these areas, that are willing to share?
>
>TIMELINE PERIOD:  1795 TO 1890.
>
>Thanking you kindly for any assistance you can give me on these matters.
>
>Respectfully,
>
>JUSTIN L DINGMAN
>3rd Generation in USA
>
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Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
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