Baranowskis of Pleszew-Jarocin-Kotlin areas of Poznan
My Baranowskis may have come from the area in and around Pleszew and Jarocin.My gg-grandparents were Andrew and Mariana Baranowski.Her maiden name may have been Michalska.She was born in Dec of 1826.Her passenger list enters her last residence as "Kotlin", which could be the small village of Kotlin near the aforementioned towns.There is also a town in that area called Baranow.I don't know if there is a connection there.
Her son Stephan bc 1853-5 (my g-grandfather) came to the US in 1881. His father was noted as "Andrew" on Stephan's marriage record in 1881. Mariana came over with a younger son(?) named Wojciech (aka Adalbert; George)c 1890. George was almost 17 yrs younger than Stephan.He noted his father on a marriage record as "Laurence".The 1895 Polk directory lists Mariana as "[wid Laurence]".After emigrating from Poznan, they lived in Calumet, Michigan, but during the early part of the 1900s, parts of the family moved to the Chicago area.
Stephan and George may have had an older brother named John (bc. 1853) who lived for a time in Calumet and whose family lived outside of Chicago area. Previously to coing to Calumet, he lived in Ohio and Calumet, Michigan.
Any family out there??
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