Orbiks in Augustow Parish      

Walęty Orbiczyk and his wife were living on On  Uliczka Zabia in the 1662 Population Register of Augustow

Walenty Orbik and his wife were living on one of these streets , Razgrodzka, Niemiecka, or  Łech Ulica, in the 1674 Population Register of Augustow.

There was a Maciej Orbik mentioned in the 1721 list of Augustów parishioners along wih the following family members:

  1. Wojciech Orbik
  2. Petronella Orbik
  3. Dorota Orbik

In 1738 Marianna Orbik was witness to a marriage in Augustów.

Joseph Giciewski married Marianna Orbik in Augustów in 1739.

  1. 1742 birth of Sophia, daughter of Joseph Giciewski and Marianna de domo Orbikowna in Augustów. Record # 1187.
  2. 1744 birth of Mathias, son of Joseph Giczewski and Marianna Giczewski in Augustów. Record # 1416.

 

Maciej Kowalewski married Zofia Orbik in Augustów In 1748 Maciej Kowalewski married Zofia Orbik in Augustów.

It appears that the Orbiks that settled in the town of Augustów dissapeared over time. There are no more entries beyond the middle of the 18th Century. One clue as to their dissapearance may be relocation to newly established villages in the area at the time. There were several Orbiks that founded the village of Krasnopol in the 1770s. There were also some Orbiks that founded the town of Zuśno as part of the Carmelite expansion into the area. Both of these towns are believed to have had settlers from the Augustów region, although there is no documented connections to the Orbiks from Augustów or Bargłów-Kościelny.

 

 

Orpik and Orbik- name change in Osowy Grad

In the book Studia i Materialy Do Dziejow Pojezierza Augutsowiego (Bialystok, 1967), the author cites the development of the Augustow suburb of Osowy Grad. In this town he lists the families who appeared in this village in 1783 and 1792. This includes an Orbik family in both 1783 and 1792. Even though he lists this family as ORBIK in this book, church records from Augustow have marriage and birth records in the village of Osowy Grad which lists ORPIKS in the early 1800s. The ORPIK name shifted to the spelling ORBIK in 1822.

There is no documentary, or DNA connection between the Orpiks/Orbiks in Osowy Grad and the Orbiks in Tajno, even though the two villages are relatively close to one another.

In Osowy Grad 

Regester of those communicating in the Augustów Parish Church during Easter confession 1801-1815:

Jan Orpik, 60, died in Osowy Grąd on 13 May, 1805. Helen Orpik, 60, died in Osowy Grąd on 26 January, 1808. This couple was most likely Jan Orpik and Helen Butkiewicz, widow, from Lebiedzin, married in the parish of Krasnybór in 1775. It appears that this family moved to Osowy Grąd sometime in the 1790s.

Antoni Orpik appeared as a Godparent in an 1807 baptism in Osowoy Grad in 1807.  Antoni Orbik, 40, died in Osowy Grąd on 3 December, 1813.

Jan Orpik, 23 (born 1783) married Johanna Majewska, 17, on 26 August, 1806 in Augustów parish. Witnesses Mateusz Wyszyński, Kazimierz Zyskowski, and Adam Zawadzki.

  1. Franciszek Orpik, born in Osowy Grąd on 22 April 1808 and baptised in Augustów parish. Godparents were Karol Macewski and Katarzyna Milanowska. Franciszek Orbik died in Osowy Grąd on 14 February, 1810.
  2. Andrzej Jan Orpik, born in Osowy Grąd on 3 Nov 1810 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  3. Marianna Orpik, born in Osowy Grąd on 11 May 1814 and baptised in Augustów parish. It appears that she had two children out of wedlock before she married Wojciech Bujnowski in 1843 in Augustów parish.
  4. Salomea Orbik born in Osowy Grąd in 1822. (The first time the surname was listed as Orbik, not Orpik).

Jan Orbik died in Osowy Grąd in 1852. Joanna nee Majewski died in Osowy Grąd in 1853.

Marianna Orbik had two children born out of wedlock in Osowy Grąd:

  1. Franciszek Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 4 August 1839 and baptised on 5 August, 1839 in Augustów parish. Witnesses were Wiktoria Choćko, akuszerka (midwife) 45, from Osowy Grąd, and Jan Olszewski, 21, and Jan Orbik, 50, both gospodarz from Osowy Grąd. The document was signed by Ks. Antoni Jasowski, pastor of Augustów parish. Marianna Orbik waslisted as panna, or maiden, even though she just had a child.
  2. Wyncent Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 7 October 1841 and baptised in Augustów parish.

Wojciech Bujnowski, son of Jakub Bujnowski and Józefata Wasilewski, married Marianna Orbik, daughter of Jan Orbik and Joanna Majewski in 1843 in Augustów parish.

  1. Ludwika Bujnowski, born in Osowy Grąd in 1844 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  2. Rozalia Bujnowski, born in Osowy Grąd in 1846 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  3. Jan Bujnowski, born in Osowy Grąd in 1849 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  4. Franciszka Bujnowski, born in Osowy Grąd in 1851 and baptised in Augustów parish. She married Wojcuech Niedziłko on 12 November, 1872 in Suchowola parish.

Jan Orbik, born 1799, married Ewa Zaborowska.

  1. Marianna Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd in 1838 and baptised in Augustów parish. She married Pawel Zagorski, son of Stanislaw Zagórski and Helena Kierkla in Janowek, parish of Krasnybór on 10 Feb 1861. He was listed as being from Janowek and she was born in Osowy Grad and lived with her parents in Janowek. So apparently Jan Orbik and Ewa Zaborowska Orbik moved here from Osowy Grad sometime between 1851 and 1861. They were listed as gospodarz.
  2. Franciszek Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 5 August 1839 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  3. Ignacy Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 8 January 1841 and baptised in Augustów parish. He died in Osowy Grąd in 1844.
  4. Franciszek Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 4 Dec 1842 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  5. Teofil Orbik, born in Osowy Grąd on 6 Dec 1844 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  6. Antonina Orbik born in Osowy Grąd on 12 June 1848 and baptised in Augustów parish.
  7. Franciszka Orbik born in Osowy Grąd on 1851 and baptised in Augustów parish. Married Wojchiech Zaborowski, son of Stanisław Zaborowski and Helena Kierkla, in in Krasnybór parish in 1875. After his death, she married Andrzej Winkiewicz in Krasnybór parish on 23 October, 1887.
  8. Elżbieta Orbik, born in Cisówek in Karsnybór parish om 17 December 1853 and baptised in Krasnybór parish. She had one child out of wdlock, Aleksandra Orbik, born in 1883 and died in 1885 in Krasnabórki. Elżbieta Orbik married Wojciech Sobotko in Krasnybór parish on 24 November, 1885.

Jan Orbik died in Janówek, in Krasnybór parish in 1872. Ewa nee Zaborowski Orbik died in Janówek in Krasnybór parish in 1886.

 

In 2007, while searching church records in Augustow church in Poland. I found evidence that this branch actually evolved from the name ORPIK.

 

Death Record in 1852 in Augustow of Jan Orbik, 80, husband of Joanna Majewski, son of Jan Orbik and Helen Szarwilow. Jan Orbik must have been born around 1772.