An Incredible Story About our Dlugi Relatives from the Czech Republic in Nowa Biala, Poland
Here's an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic. It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist. Click here for this incredible story at http://www.kuzmich4.com/Dlugi/Dlugi.pdf.
Here's a true story that was obtained from an unpublished history of Nowa Biala, Poland pertaining to our Dlugi ancestors who originally came from the Czech Republic. It came from Tadeusz Pilat, our very important Polish genealogist.
However I do have information about Joannes (Jan) Dlugi (Slovak: Dluhy,
Hungarian: Dlughi). In fact he is one of the few inhabitants that we have a little bit
of history for. And I only know about it because when I was in Nowa Biala, I took
some notes on a unpublished history of the town. And it goes something like this:
In approximately 1765, the church in town burned down and after a little
delay, the town leaders decided to rebuild it (what is now the church in town).
Much of it was to be brick and so they hired three bricklayers from Silesia; they
were three brothers named Dlugi. They obviously came from a town named
Stara Ves ("Little Village") in what is today Moravian/Silesian section of the
Czech Republic. The distance away from Nowa Biala was 150 to 200 miles.
I have no idea why they had to go so far for bricklayers. They came and did
their work on the church. Two of the went home; one stayed. That one has to
be your direct ancestor, Jan Dlugi. I believe that he is ancestor of all the people named
Dlugi/Dluhy in the town. HIs story is well known there and in fact that house his
family lived in is called something like "the house of the bricklayer." (House 55).
Dlugi's have lived there since (perhaps to the present day).
Now I can't absolutely prove all this but it is the only way of explaining
the facts and stories I have. That's all I have but it is a lot more about a single
person living in the town than practically anyone else.
Let me know what you think!
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