[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kepa Dobrzynska

[Jerry Frank]

A Kepa (pronounced Kempa) is the same as the old English word holm or 
hurst and means an islet or sandbar in a river, or a cluster of trees.  
While most commonly applied to an island, it is often used for 
settlements very close to the river bank as well. 

The Wisla River has undergone numerous flooding cycles with some of 
these islands disappearing over time, hence the disappearing of the 
settlement.  I cannot back this up but it seems I have read that some of 
these settlements were often summer time residences.  The islands 
provided good pasture land so a herd of cows might be brought there for 
the summer to forage and families would live there to take care of them.

I cannot come up with a good match for Lesin or similar in this area.  
If you send me a scan of a document with the writing, I might be able to 
come up with a better interpretation of what is there.  Perhaps send a 
scan to Jan as well and between the two of us, you might get results. 


Jerry Frank
Calgary, AB



mag_ton wrote:
> Thank you , Jan . I wish I had asked earlier , like years ago (-:   I have been staring at this particular record for years trying to decipher this village ( island ? town ? ) . It is Kepa Dobrzynska exactly in this 1843 marriage record between Florentina Dorata Ziemer , born in Kepa Dobrzynska ,   marriage to Jan Steck , born in Hollendry Czerno  , a farmer in Piotrkowek . They were married in Plock Evangelical Church . I do have another question about another location , same time period  in this surrounding area ,  plus also in Plock district , the preist wrote the residential village for the bride as LESIN , LECIN , LECIME, LECIWE ??
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> So I am curious . Is the island Kepa Dobrzynska submerged under water or has a new name ??
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> What could they farmed on these islands or did they do fish agriculture ?
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> Thanks for all your help everyone . Rose too ! Danke , Magda 
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> There was a Kepa Dobrzynska, situated between Kepa Bachorzewska and Kepa Glowinska, as shown on this section of a map from 1839:
> http://textor.dk/maps/Dobrzyn.jpg
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> I
> have not been able to find these islets on a contemporary map, although
> they still seemed to exist in the late 1930's, as shown here:
> http://textor.dk/maps/Dobrzyn2.jpg
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> Hope this helps,
> Jan Textor
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>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:24:31 -0700
>> From: mag_ton at yahoo.com
>> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
>> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Kepa Dobrzyn
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> Was there a Kepa Dobrzyn in the 1840's  that's just not on the map
> anymore . I assume this was one of those islands near Dobryzyn on the
> river .
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