Post by nadia on Mar 29, 2020 11:05:25 GMT 1
I live in Scotland and have been researching my family history - recently starting to examine church records that are available online ('Metrical Books') for birth/marriage/death.
My father's family came from the Lemko region of what is now southeast Poland.
My Baba left the village of Lipna and emigrated to the USA in 1900. The village was depopulated after WWII, and I am told that only an old graveyard in the woods remains today. However, the individuals in my family tree are 'coming to life' in my imagination as I find information in the church records, which are written in a version of Latin that I am learning to decipher.
I recently enountered the word 'Scultetus' which means Soltys in a record from 1795 which mentions my 4x Great Grandfather Michael Dorosiewicz, referring to him as a 'Scultetus'. He was recently deceased at that time, and a witness at the wedding of his 14-year-old daughter, Xenia, was the current Soltys of Lipna.
The basic definition I've been given for the word is 'a deputy administrator on behalf of a feudal lord' and elsewhere I see it referred to as a kind of village 'headman'.
I would appreciate any information about what the role of soltys meant - how they were chosen, and the duties that they undertook for their village.
Many thanks in advance!
My father's family came from the Lemko region of what is now southeast Poland.
My Baba left the village of Lipna and emigrated to the USA in 1900. The village was depopulated after WWII, and I am told that only an old graveyard in the woods remains today. However, the individuals in my family tree are 'coming to life' in my imagination as I find information in the church records, which are written in a version of Latin that I am learning to decipher.
I recently enountered the word 'Scultetus' which means Soltys in a record from 1795 which mentions my 4x Great Grandfather Michael Dorosiewicz, referring to him as a 'Scultetus'. He was recently deceased at that time, and a witness at the wedding of his 14-year-old daughter, Xenia, was the current Soltys of Lipna.
The basic definition I've been given for the word is 'a deputy administrator on behalf of a feudal lord' and elsewhere I see it referred to as a kind of village 'headman'.
I would appreciate any information about what the role of soltys meant - how they were chosen, and the duties that they undertook for their village.
Many thanks in advance!
