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Lasecki Land, day one
With the help of our wild, fearless driver and founder of the Poznan Project, Lukasz (pronounce that Wu kash), Rebecca, and I were able to track down and visit the relevant villages of the ancestors of Walter Lasecki (pronounce Wah set ski) during three days in June 2012. I wrote a small piece describing a…
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Francisca Rozmarynowska Łasecki
FRANCISCA “Francis” ROZMARYNOWSKA Łasecki (Walter Lasecki’s grandmother, the immigrant Francis) Born at 7 am 4 Aug 1825 the village of Lekno (near Wagrowiec), and baptised 24 Aug in Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic church. Her father, my third great grandfather, Wojiech Rozmarynowska, was a cobbler from Lekno, and her mother, my third great grandmother, was…
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Antoni Lasecki
ANTHONY “Anton” LASECKI Antoni was born 11 May 1866 in Grylewo Parish (near Wagrowiec and Poznan) Poland. Baptized at St. Catherine’s in Grylewo on the 14th, his godparents were Jan Lemanski and Teofilia Gertych. He was most likely the last of the 7 children born to Andrej Lasecki (pronounced Wasetski), a farmer, and Francisca Rozmarynowska…