Wojciech Alberti ZYTOWSKI

MAR 1834 - 4 FEB 1928

• RESIDENCE: 1900, 829 W Dunham
• OCCUPATION: Day Laborer
  1900
• BIRTH: MAR 1834, Slawno, Gniezno, Prussian Poland
• EMIGRATION: 1880
• BURIAL: St Joseph Cemetery, South Bend, In
• DEATH: 4 FEB 1928, South Bend, IN

• MARRIAGE: 1871, Slawno, Gniezno, Prussian Poland

1. +Leocadia Laura ZYTOWSKI
2. +Valentine ZYTOWSKI
3.  Joseph ZYTOWSKI
4.  Thomas ZYTOWSKI
5. +Rosalia ZYTOWSKI

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[N10249] Slawno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kiszkowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.] The village has a population of 435. It has a church which lies on the Wooden Churches Trail around Puszcza Zielonka.

Slawno

in the County of Gniezno

Slawno, a village and an animal farm in the Gniezno County, 7 km southeast from Kiszkowo and the same distance southwest of Klecko. It has a parish church and a post office, 9 km from an old road to Chwalkow. Slawno used to belong to the Gnieznienski archbishops. Then it was taken away by the Wielkopolski noblemen and subsequently returned to the church by Wladyslaw Odonicz.

As Dlugosz's chronicle has it, as of 1253, the Gniezno archbishop visited Slawno in order to confirm Piotr as a bishop of Poznan. In 1331 the Knights of the Cross plundered Slawno during their invasion on Wielkopolska. The King Kazimierz confirmed that Slawno belonged to Poland by giving it some special privilege in 1357.

In 1579 Slawno belonged to archbishops. As a result of an exchange it became the private property of Alexander Lubienski in 1764, and then of the Wesierscy family. Right by the village there is a hill called the Swedish hill. Slawno was intended to be a city.

St. Mikolaj Church had already been in existence in 1348. In the place of the old church Lubienski had built a new wooden one in 1764. In 1777, St. Jan Nepomucen chapel was added to it. When the church burnt down in 1803, a new brick church was built in 1844.

Since 1771, St. Joseph's Brothers settled by the church. The parish had 2,102 members and they were from: Berkowo, Brudzewko, Dziecmiarki, Glebockie Huby, Glebokie, Hieronimowo, Imiolki, Jozefowo, Kamionek, Myszki, Popkowice, Strzetuszewo, Slawno, Slepowo, Sroczyn, Tomaszewo, Ujazd, Wegorzewo, Wegorzewski Holendry, Witakowice, Zakrzewo, and Zelice.

During the time of the archbishop Laski there was also Rzepczyno, often called "Szyemczyno" or Szyroczyno" (Sroczyn). North of Slawno there is the St. Rozalia chapel which was founded by Jozef Stolzman, the parish priest.

In 1697, Mikolaj Kamienski founded a hospital for the poor (12 beds). Presently, Slawno has 22 houses. It is populated by 199 Catholics. It covers 290 hectares of land (244 of farm land and 7 of pastures).

One hectare of farm land brings 8.62 marks and one hectare of pasture brings 11.75 marks in net income. The animal farm belonging to the manor consists of 8 houses. -It is populated by 120 inhabitants (111 Catholic and 9 Protestant) and it covers 512 hectares of land (244 hectares of farming land, 10 hectares of pasture, and 181 hectares of forests). Woiciech Chelmicki of Zakrzewo is its owner.

Slawno is located in the Dekanat of Pobiedziski. The following is a list of the other churches and their locations:
Location Church
Dabrowka Koscielna
Dziekanowice Sw. Marcina
Lmielno Narodzenia NMP
Jerzykowo Niepokalanego Serca NMP
Kiszkowo Sw. Jana Chrzciciela
Lubowo Sw. Micholaja
Pobiedziska Sw. Michala Archaniola
Pobiedziska Sw. Ducha
Pobiedziska Matki Boskiej Nieustajacej Pomocy
Rejowiec Poznanski Najsw. Serca Pana Jezusa
Waliszewo Sw. Katarzyny
Weglewo Sw. Katarzyny
Wronczyn Sw. Stanislawa BPA

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1880