Bycx
Bycx is one of the intermediate villages where Germans stayed as they migrated to Volhynia. Freidrich Hahn, the husband of Anna Rosina Krassin, was born either in this village in 1809 or the next village Krogulec in 1808. He met and married Anna Rosina in Volhynia. Anna Rosina was born in Kicin, Schwersens near Posen. Click here for this family's genealogy. Click here for the Krassin family genealogy.
Here are some pictures of the modern village:
Here is a map showing Bycx in the context of the several other early German settlements in Russian Poland:
When the Prussians acquired this area in the third partition of Poland, they conducted as census to determine all the taxable residents of each village (that is, residents owning or contracting land). Here is the list for this village:
Baag Michael
Dreger Johann
Dreger Ludwig
Dreger
Duesterhaeft Michael
Glasemann Juergen
Gruening
Hochstedt Juergen
Kerl Daniel
Kerl Daniel
Kietzmann Matthias
Mattheus Michael
Mittelstedt Michael
Mueller Jacob
Mundt Gottfried
Salomon Jacob
Schmidt Knecht
Schmidt Michael
Seide Jacob
Welek/Welck George
Wrubbel Mattheas
Zaeck Johann
Click here for more about the area and why the Germans would want to leave for Volhynia.
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September 17, 2007