THE BEGINNING
... a seedling of a noble oak-tree puts down roots on the Eastern Frontier ...

1546 - The forefather :

LUKASZ, a Polish knight of the "Pobóg" coat of arms, a courtier in the Kings castle Wawel in Cracow.

At the beginning of year 1546, Polish king Zygmunt II August bestowed on a 26 year old knight Lukasz (Lukash), his courtier in the Wawel castle in Cracow, a land property on the Eastern Frontier of the Kingdom of Poland. The estate was on crown lands in the woodlands of the Grand Duchy of Litva and was called Ryma. The word Ryma comes from the local Slavic language - it is as a feminine given name.

1610 - The progenitor :

GREGORY of  RYMA on the Eastern Frontier, son of Lukasz, the first  RYMASZEWSKI.

By the end of 16th century, Gregory (Grzegorz) was the actual landlord of Ryma, who run their estate with his elderly father Lukash, the last surviving member of the Zaglobczyk knightly family.

At those times, modern formal surnames of Polish nobility that originated from the knighthood, were being established. Gregory adopted the surname Rymaszewski after their estate Ryma and became the first ancestor of our family.

Polish king Zygmunt III Waza confirmed by royal deed dated 6 July 1610, the establishment of Rymaszewski noble surname bearing the Zaglobczyk's knightly coat of arms "Pobóg", as well as family's perpetual land patent (ownership) of Ryma estate.

I.D. Numbers - Genetic Sequence Method.
GR = Gregory's Family Tree

THE FIRST SEVEN GENERATIONS
OF GREGORY'S DESCENDANTS
17th - 19th Century

In the 20th century Poland, Stanislaw Rymaszewski (1908-1979) left his memoirs, an unpublished typescript entitled "Rodowód Ojców moich" - The Origin of my Forefathers. The typewritten pages include his research on the origin of the Rymaszewski Family. He provides names of the first seven generations of descendants (shown above) from the progenitor Gregory, branching out in the recent times to Stanislaw's own family in the tenth to twelfth generation (now thirteen!), shown below.

Photo of young STANISLAW Rymaszewski (on the right) with Henryk Rymaszewski from Wilno (relation not described), taken in 1927 in pre-war Poland.

Caption:

"August 1927, during training period in timber mill Zawadówka near Chelm-Lubelski with Henryk Rymaszewski from Wilno".

Barbara and Miroslaw live in PLOCK, Poland.
FAMILY PHOTO- 2007

From left:
• Barbara's second son - Michal Nowosielski (and his girlfriend) • Barbara's first son - Jakub Szarzynski (and his daughter Klaudia)
• Barbara's husband - Miroslaw Nowosielski, • Barbara Rymaszewska - Nowosielska  • Barbara's nephew - Grzegorz Rymaszewski
• Grzegorz's wife - Ewa Rymaszewska • Grzegorz's and Ewa's son - Michal Rymaszewski. - - - Photo taken in Plock in August 2007

 JANINA Rymaszewska, the daughter of Kazimierz. Born 22 August 1918 in Deblin, Poland. Her husband was Leon Pokrowski, a Merchant Navy Officer in Poland before the war. They lived in Warsaw. Their daughter Elzbieta was born in 1947 in Warsaw, now the Polish Peoples Republic. Elzbieta married a Syrian and left the country.

 JADWIGA Rymaszewska. Born 25 September 1889 in Neszki, Bychowski district, Mohyl area, the daughter of Urban Rymaszewski. She died in Warsaw in 1970. Jadwiga married: Wlodzimierz Czausow, the son of Michal. They had one son Leon Czausow, born on 10 May 1909 in Roslavl (Roslawel), Smolensk gubernia, and died in June 1952 in a Moscow Soviet prison. Leon married Irena Medynska in 1947 and they had one son Wlodzimierz Czausow, born on 17 January 1951 in Sosnowiec. Wlodzimierz, the son, now lives in Krakow. He married Malgorzata Krekora and they have two sons: Michal, born on 11 June 1983, and Mikolaj, born on 24 June 1988.

For  more detalis about Czausow Family see Email no. 049

In the National Historical Archives of Belarus (NIAB) in Minsk is a matter (dated 1846) regarding "Birth Records of Rymaszewski family".

Possible genealogy of Rymaszewski family based on birth records of Nesvizh (Nieswiez) and Bobownia Roman - Catholic churches.

The church in Bobownia was later closed after the rebellion of 1863 (i.e. Polish January Uprising 1863 -1864).
(Case No. 13564 - Abolishing Svoyatyche and Bobownia Roman - Catholic churches in 1866 -1869 r.)

The following is according to data taken (in 1846) from Parish books of Nesvizh (Nieswiez) and Bobownia churches - part of birth certificates were in Latin alphabet (i.e. in Polish) and part of birth certificates were in Uniate alphabet (i.e. in Cyrillic - or in Russian)

The chart below was drawn using information sent by Zbigniew Wolocznik see Email No. 189

1854 record and 1866 record



1888 record

A family of Rymaszewski lived in Oszmiana district, in the year 1864, and owned an estate called Jatolowicze, which included a village named Rodziewicze.

1757 record - 16th -17th century

IT  FITS !!!
This "jigsaw piece" fits in one place only — judging by the date 1672 and the names of father and son.

JAKÓB lived in the 4th generation of Gregory's descendants. He was the son of GR.12 : TOMASZ. Jakób's ID number should be GR.122   He must be the brother of MIKOLAJ GR.121 This also demonstrates the usefulness of my Genetic Sequence Method allowing to identify people and their relationship (especially with similar names)

1747-1811 records

• JAN Rymaszewski, was a steward of Duchy of Nieswiez in the year 1747.
• JAN Rymaszewski, was a steward Olycki (of town Olyce) from 1754 to 1765.
• PAWEL Rymaszewski, was a cashier of town Sluck from 1802 to 1808.
• ADAM Rymaszewski, was a land surveyor in 1811.

1757 record

• WINCENTY Rymaszewski was the King's official from 1781 to 1794 as a regent of the "Szewelski gród" (? a fortified stronghold)

Stanislaw's memoirs
Stanislaw writes: "Jakub Rymaszewski purchased a grange Korzeniowszczyzna from Volodzki on 9 February 1733 (agreement in 1699?)", but Jakub could not be found on the Family Tree.

• No. 50 : ADAM'S Branch
  See Chapter 13 : Krzysztof's Family in Terespol, Poland
• No. 50.142 : KASPER'S Branch
  See Chapter 14/1 : Anna's Family in Canada
• No. 66 : RAFAL'S Branch
  See Chapter 2 : Franek's Family in Australia
• No. 67 : BOLESLAW'S Branch
  See Chapter 2 : Franek's Family in Australia
• No. XX : JÓZEF'S Branch
  See Chapter 13 : Maciej's Family in Poland
• No. US : TELESFOR'S Branch
  See Chapter 14/2 : David's Family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• No. X : Twin brothers JÓZEF and WINCENTY's Branch
  See Chapter 13 : Andrzej's Family in Poland