[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Boguslawka in Rozyszcze

[Jerry Frank]

Carol,

Boguslawowka in Rozyszcze Parish is located about 10 km NW of Torczyn 
or 5 km NNE of Zaturcy.  Not sure what you mean by difficulty 
visualizing it.  If you want to see it on a map, use 
http://www.mapywig.org/m/WIG100_300DPI/A45_B40_(XXVIII-18)_ROZYSZCZE_300dpi.jpg 


A little up from the bottom left corner is Zaturce.  Go a little 
further north to find Boguslawowka.  We know that Germans lived in 
this village but there certainly could have been other ethnic groups 
resident there as well.

There are numerous places in eastern Europe that duplicate their 
names as a result of days when villages were owned by a 
Lord.  Janowka, John's village;  Antonowka, Anton's 
village;  Alexandrowka, Alexander's village;  Boguslawowka, 
Boguslaw's village.

Bog in Slavic languages = God.  Boguslaw is the Polish equivalent of 
the German name Gottfried.  Bogomil is the Polish equivalent of Gottlieb.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca



At 08:51 PM 02/01/2009, Carol Duff wrote:
>     I have such a difficult time visualizing where and what this was. I
>find it on vital statistics, but I really don't know what it is today.
>There were many Boguslawkas in many parts of Poland and Russia. Why were
>there so many? And who were the people in this place? Mine was  German
>Lutheran from about 1885 and then was in Canada in 1890. Carol