Eugeniusz Groński

Hello,

I am trying to locate any information on my great-grandfather, Eugeniusz Groński. He was probably born between 1870 and 1883. He was married to Maria Drozdowska (parents Leopold Drozdowski and Albina Józefowicz). She was born 13 July1883 in Lahoysk (today's Belarus). They had 3 children: Wladyslaw, Stanislaw, and Leopold. Leopold was born in Shumikha (Kurgan Oblast) on 1 Feb 1916. The reason the family was in Russia (Siberia) is because Eugeniusz worked as a train driver there. I believe the family lived there for a few years before returning back to the area around Vilnius or Ashmyana or Minsk. He died in 1940 supposedly in Soviet captivity.

I am a bit stuck, because I cannot find any information on Eugeniusz's parents or where he was born or where they lived after returning from Russia. I was thinking that there are a few potential avenues to approach this:
1) Search for wedding certificate (what makes this difficult, however, is that I do not know the year or the place. Given that Wladyslaw was born in 1909 and Stanislaw in 1910, most likely the wedding was in 1908 or 1907, yet without knowing the place, this is a bit of a dead end).
2) Search for a record of his employment with the Russian railways. Is there a database of this?
3) Search for any record of his arrest in 1940. Again, is there a searchable database of this?

Thank you,
/M

Гронские есть в Нижнем Новгороде

>> Ответ на сообщение пользователя siadeblanc от 16 декабря 2023 4:23

Thank you for the information. I will see if I can find a Stanislav Gronski somewhere around Vilnius as that is where the family lived after Evgeny stopped working for the Russian railways. I presume that is where they might have lived before they moved to Siberia for his work.

I do not have Leopold's birth record. I know that information because he was my grandfather, not because I found it in any documents.

For my interest, what does "honorary citizen" mean? Is this a kind of nobility title (but not dvoryanin), or it has to do with actual Russian citizenship?

Thank you.

Collegiate registrar was a lowest rank in Russian imperial bureaucracy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_Ranks ).

"Honorary citizens" was a small strata between nobles and burghers, it consists of childern of non-hereditary nobles, children of some clergymen and some others. Also it can be achieved through best places at ranks for some univercities and college students, through awarding of some imperial orders, or one can be elevated by city goverment's decision, e.t.c.

lechia44 написал:

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One more question, the dates in the birth records, e.g. Stanislaw's are in the Julian calendar?

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Yes, the Julian calendar was used before the revolution, after - the Gregorian