Tag: Bobrowa

  • The Family of Adelbert Moraniec and Margaretha Wojtovicz

    FAMILY OF ADELBERT MORANIEC AND MARGARETHA House #15 Bobrowa            Note: all children Baptized on the day of birth 1.Marianna  b. 6 Dec 1837 (baptized same  day) 2.  Laurentius (Waerzyniec) 4 Aug 1839 (baptized same day) Midwife: Agnes Janora Godparents: Stanislaw Janora & Maria Lipa    Death: Oct 1839 3.  Mateusz “MAX” b.14 Sep 1841 Midwife: AJ …

  • The Moraniec and Garbaczyk Homeland, day three

    Continuing our tour, on Day Two, we arrived at the parish office in Nagoszyn for our appointment with the assistant pastor at 7 PM. There was a slim window when the clergy would be available  to answer questions, counsel parishioners  and in our case, assist research. Our work would now focus on the Moraniec – Lipa…

  • The Moraniec and Garbacik Homeland

    This tour, culminating our three week Poland escapade, rocked my previous genealogical knowledge straight out of the family history boat! Iwona Dakiniewicz, genealogist and tour guide extraordinaire, led Rebecca and me through the hills and dales of our matrilineal homeland. As a woman, my genetic load tilts more heavily on the mitochondrial line, the lineage…

  • MATEUSZ MORANIEC

    MATEUSZ aka MAX MORANIEC Max was born 14 Sep 1841 in House #15 Bobrowa, Debica to Adelbert Moraniec and Margaretha Wojtovicz.  This was the same house his father was born in, his grandfather lived in, and his children would come to life in as well. The midwife was Agnes Janora. The godparents were Martin Wojtovicz…

  • Big Joe Moraniec

    BIG JOE MORANIEC JOSEPH MORANIEC aka “BIG JOE” Jozef was born 20 Nov 1868 to Matheus (Max) Moraniec and Katarzyna Lipa in House#15, in the village of Bobrowa, Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the eldest of the couples’ four children and the only one to survive into adulthood. Sister Barbara was born…

  • Origin of Moraniec family

    Origin of Moraniec family

    Though we don’t exactly know the etymology  of the Moraniec name ((pronounced Mor-an-yitz and spelled in the Latin records Moranice), Sue’s Polish language teacher, Beata, has told us that the name means “one from the border,” perhaps implying that the Moraniecs originated from Russia, Czech, or Slovakia? Iwona agreed that it most likely did not…