Tables of Liquidation
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I found these tables of liquidation (tabele likwidacyjne) by searching a recently released online database called Population Records in Archival Materials - ELA, at the website of the Polish State Archive in Lublin. In March 2007, I traveled with my Polish researcher and translator- Iwona Dakiniewicz, to the Polish State Archives branch in Bialystok and found these documents. We obtained copies of these tables and are translating them now. The lists of names involved in this liquidation of land are mentioned below.
Anticipating growing unrest in the Russian partition of Poland in the early 1860s, the Russian government initiated a policy of emancipation of serfdom, at least in the Russian controlled area of former Poland. Growing unrest on the part of the Polish gentry, coupled with a growing revolutionary spirit sweeping the region, resulted in the insurrection of 1863. Eventually put down in 1864, retribution was quick and widespread. Landowners implicated in the uprising lost their properties and many participants were deported to Siberia.
"[T]he new ukases on uwlaszczenia [emancipation] were eventually signed on 19 February/2 March 1864. There were actually four of them.. The first outlined the general principle of uwlaszczenia . It declared that all peasants using even the smallest holdings would become full owners...
The second ukase assigned an indemnification to the land owners for the losses suffered. A liquidation committee was established in Warsaw" [p.172].
"In every private estate, a liquidation table was now to be drawn which was destined to have a double effect. It was to be the legal means of the landlord's indemnification, and it was to fix the limits of property assigned to each peasant, together with the charges and privileges" [p.174].
From The Emancipation of the Polish Peasants by Stefan Kieniewicz, University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Another drastic step included the mandated use of the Russian language in all official documents and proceedings. While it took until 1868 to see this change in the church records in the parish of Barglow-Koscielny, these civil records, begun in 1864, shows how quickly this policy was implemented in this area of Russian partitioned Poland. One of the interesting things in these civil documents is that sometimes the first names were Russian versions of Polish names like Iwan instead of Jan or Isop instead of Jozef. In other cases Jozef and Jan were used. This is contrary to Russian used in parish records in Barglow Koscielny which always used the Polish version.
While I attempt to learn more about these documents, it apparently shows a redistribution of land in three villages of Barglow Koscielny parish - Tajenko, Tajno, and Orzechowka. According to Iwona Dakiniewicz, the land was redistributed to those who could prove their poverty and need for land to support their families. This helps explain how my ancestor Jakob Orbik, whose family lived in Tajno since the 1680s, ended up owning (renting?) a farm on the manorial estate of Tajenko in the 1860s. Tajenko was where my great grandfather Stanislaw Orbik was born in 1875. We will attempt to translate more and post more information about these documents as we learn more abut these interesting documents.
A detailed list (under construction) of Tajno table is here. Soon, I will post the original documents in a digital file.
Tajno:
1. Wojciech Popko
2. Kazimierz Kotowski
3. Jozef Malatowski
4. Antoni Grylo
5. Grygori (Grzegorz) Gnat
6. Pawel Oleksy
7. Jan Kuczynski
8. Franciszek Wnorowski
9. Maciej Kozlowski
10. Jan Organista
11. Pawel Borkowski
12. Franciszek Fedorowicz
13. Maciej Bolonkowski
14. Maciej Orbik
15. Pawel Szmit
16. Antoni Chmielewski
17. Maciej Muczynski
17 ??? Muczynski
18. Jan Kuberski
19. Karol Adasiewicz
20. Antoni Briskornia (?)
21. Jakub Klimont
22. Jan Sikora
23. Wojciech Bierednicki (?)
24. Andrzej Mieckowski
24 Jakob
Mieckowski
25. Jan Domanowski
26. Jan Putalski
27. Jakub Pietka
28. Adam Popko
29. Maciej Ziarko
30. Marcin Ziarko
31. Jan Siemiaszko
32. Michal Solecki
33. Katarzyna Zanio
34. Krystian Garwit
35. Franciszek Feler
36. Antoni Kulik
37. Wojciech Szczesny
38. Franciszek Kulik
39. Andrzej Czaplinski
40. Romuald Zapolski
41. Adam Kuklinski
42. Mateusz Orzechowski
43. Marcin Sientkowski
44. Franciszek Siemiaszko
45. Michal ? Briespora ?
46. Maciej Putalski
47. Adam Agurewicz
48. Maciej Sitarz or Sitaracz ?
49. Bogumil Sitarz
50. Franciszek Santor
51. WawrzyniecCzerniecki
52. Andrzej Czerniecki
53. Antoni Kulik
54. Maciej Polkowski
55. Michal Gurowski
56. Wojciech Sienko
57. Michal ..oskonski
58. Franciszek Matniewski
59. Pawel Orbik
60. Adam Mioduszewski
61. Adam Chmielewski
62. Pawel Tokarzewski
63. Jozef Garusiewicz
64. Andrzej Ziarko
65. Tomasz (?) Pietrzewicz
66. Antoni Lewan
67. Jakub Santor (2 more names here Adam Santor 1/4, Stanislaw
Ari..owsk)
68. Pawel Godlewski
69. Tomasz Dombrowski
Lanowe - names of farmers who served in the army [possibly given
land for their service]
70. Antoni Szczesny
71. Maciej Sotko
72. Jan Czerniecki
73. Piotr Czerniecki
74. Stanislaw Oleksy
75. Wojciech Skabel
76. Tomasz Szczesny
77. Jozef Kolakowski
78. Kazimierz Skowronski
79. Antoni Kulik
80. Adam Szczesny
81. Wojciech Klimont
82. Franciszek Kot
83. Bartlomiej Szczesny
84. Marcin Szczesny
85. Maciej Kulik
86. Maciej Kulik
87. Franciszek Lewon
Chalupniki - those who worked for others.
88. Wincenty Olszewski
89. Tomasz Wierzbicki
90. Wojciech Zajko
91. Jan Czapla
92. Antoni Czapla
93. Jan Rogalski
94. Antoni Szpinski
95. Kazimierz Jablonski
96. Bogumil Zanio
items 87, 88, 89 - mention about total amounts of land
Tajenko
1. Antoni Sobolewski
2. /33 Sobolewski Ludwik
3./32 Antoni Stankiewicz
4. Szymon Skaszynski (?)
5. Konstanty Karwowski
6. Jakub Sikorski
7. Piotr Romanowski
8. Feliks Sobolewski
9. Jan Lawicz (Lawur ?)
10. Kazimierz Trzeciakowski
11. Andrzej Kulik
12. Jan Zimicki
13. Jan Kuczynski
14. Jan Ziarko
15. Kazimierz Sikora
16. Jakob Marcinkowski
17. Antoni Stankiewicz
18. Jozef Sikora
19. Jan Muczynski
20. Maciej Sobolewski
21. Jan Silak
22. Barrtlomiej Tyszewski
23. Franciszek Stankiewicz
24. Jakob Sobolewski
25. Jakob Orbik
26.Jozef Bodryn
27.Boguslaw Artwicz
28. Bartlomeij Budzinski
29. Pawel Kolpaczewski
Orzechowka
1. Franciszek Dobrydnio
2. Antoni Bucko
3. Jakub Dobrydnio
4. Mikolaj Muczynski
5. Franciszek Sikora
6. Franciszek Skowronski
7. Franciszek Sobolewski
8. Antoni Dobrydnio
9. ?
10. Total amount
Notes:
Database named: Ewidencje Ludności w Archiwaliach - ELA (Population Records in Archival Materials - ELA)
http://www.lublin.ap.gov.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=118
Tabele Likwidacyjne, Tajenko, 1866,Numer zespołu 12, call number 652, pages 1-5. Located at Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku.
Tabele Likwidacyjne, Tajno, 1866,Numer zespołu 12, call number 653, 674, located at Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku.
Call number 653, has two lists -1 with handwritten columns on pages 14.5 to 17.5, the other has typewritten columns, pages 1-9. The lists appear otherwise identical.
Tabele Likwidacyjne, Orzechowka, 1866,Numer zespołu 12, call number 586, pages 1-1.5. Located at Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku.