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Valentine Kamyszek was born in Milawa, Mogilno, Poland on the 30th of January, 1820 and died in Posen, Presque Isle Co., MI on or about the 1st of August, 1883. He was the son of Matthias (1778-1858) and Marianna Szczepanka(1780-1863).
On the 26th of January,1848 he married Magdalena Zychlinska, daughter of Francis (?) and Victoria Szalecka (1783-1859), in the Parish of St. Jacob in Kamieniec, Mogilno, Poland. Then settling in the village of Slowikowo, Mogilno, Poland after their marriage and before coming to the U.S.
From a ca. 1880 census this is what is known of this village.
Slowikowo, a village and estate belonging to the district of Mogilnicki, about 9 klm North East of Trzemeszno, on a creek flowing from a lake.
It is on the border with Gnaniczy, Galczynek, Skubarczewem, Kinnem, Jerzykowen, Milawa and Rekawczynem and the Parish of Kamieniec. (Foremerly Rekawczyn).
The post office and railway station are located in Trzmesnie.
Slowikowo existed already before 1416, in the 1579 it belonged to Baltazara Turzynskiego and Baltlomieja Slowikowoskiego, first one had 2 1/2 fields on his property, 2 barren and 4 farmed, the other 1/2 field and 2 fields farmed.
In the year 1618 there were 2 1/2 fields established belonging to the estate and one working windmill. The mill has been in existence already in the year 1416.
In the earlier times the rightful owners of Slowikowo were Galczynem; Jozef Koscielski, and then Brzezanscy.
The village had at the present time has 5 houses, 48 catholic inhabitants and 115 hectare(2.47 acre/hector) (80 farming, 14 pasture land) The land with Galczynem, 3 houses and 29 inhabitants and the mill, with whom created the district village. 15 houses and 201 inhabitants (192 Catholics, 9 Protestants) and 567 hectare, 375 hectares of farmland, 86 hectares of pasture and 5 hectares of forest; cultivation of beats, peat, along with brick-kiln and lime-kiln, the owner is Libar Graeve.
They decided to migrate to America and arrived into New York Harbor on the 11th of April, 1881 aboard the vessel SS City of Montreal, and settled in the City of Alpena, Alpena Co., MI., for a short period, before finally settling in Posen, Presque Isle County, MI.
Behind the Name
As with all Polish surnames, which are derived from numerous places, occupations, physical appearances and so on. The following is what is known of the Kamyszek surname;
The surname Kamyszek derives from the vernacular Kamyczek meaning a "small stone". This word with such spelling is typical for the region of Wielkopolska (The environs of the cities of Poznan and Griezno). In the literary Polish it is spelled Kamyczek. This surname might have been created also from another surname Kamysz with using the suffix -ek. (Instytut Jezyka Polskiego)
From the Polish Genealogical Society of America, had this to add, "There are several towns and villages in Poland derived from the root word Kamien, perhaps some family adopted as a surname the name of the town".
From a book by William Hoffman (ISBN # 0-924207-07-8) Polish Surnames: Origins and Meaning wrote the following.
Kamyc-, Kamyk- {i} < Kamyk, Kamyczek, Kamyszek, all derived from the root word of Kamien meaning a "small stone" {R}; Kamycki (173),Kamyczek (247), Kamyk (573), Kamysz(426),Kamyszek (598).
The Kamyszek's were distributed through the following (Counties)voivodships, Poznzn (148), Bydgosczcz (89), Gorzow Wielkolski (49), Konin (41), Pila (26), Torun (24), Tarnobrzeg (14), Gdansk (12), Katowicz (12), Wroclaw (12), and less than ten in three other area's.
I have been able to establish the relationship with to other Kamyszek families in Germany, Canada, Poland and other regions of Michigan.
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