Orbiks in Augustow Parish      

Walęty Orbiczyk and his wife were living on On  Uliczka Zabia in the 1662 Population Register of Augustow

Walenty Orbik and his wife were living on one of these streets , Razgrodzka, Niemiecka, or  Łech Ulica, in the 1674 Population Register of Augustow

There was a Mathias Orbik mentioned in the 1721 Augustów Census.

In 1738 Marianna Orbik was witness to a marriage in Augustów.

In 1739 Joseph Giciewski married Marianna Orbik in Augustów. Several children are found in the baptism records:

• 1742 birth of Sophia, daughter of Joseph Giciewski and Marianna de domo Orbikowna in Augustów. Record # 1187.

• 1744 birth of Mathias, son of Joseph Giczewski and Marianna Giczewski in Augustów. Record # 1416.

In 1748 Maciej Kowalewski married Zofia Orbik in Augustów.

Orpik and Orbik- name change in Osowy Grad

In the book Studia i Materialy Do Dziejow Pojezierza Augutsowiego (Bialystok, 1967), the author cites the development of the Augustow suburb of Osowy Grad. In this town he lists the families who appeared in this village in 1783 and 1792. This includes an Orbik family in both 1783 and 1792. Even though he lists this family as ORBIK in this book, church records from Augustow have marriage and birth records in the village of Osowy Grad which lists ORPIKS in the early 1800s. The ORPIK name shifted to the spelling ORBIK in 1822.

As of today, I still cannot connect the Orbiks in Osowy Grad to the Orbiks in Tajno even though the two villages are very close to one another.

In Osowy Grad 

1806 Marriage of Jan Orpik, 23 (born 1783) and Johanna Majewska, 17.

1. 22 April 1808, Franciszek Orbik born to Jan Orpik and Julianna Maiewska. Godparets were Karol Macewski and Katarzyna Milanowska, Record #67

2. 3 Nov 1810, Andreas Jan Orpik born to Jan Orpik and Julianna Maciewska Record # 157

3. 11 May 1814, Marianna Orpik born to Jan Orpik and Johana Majewska Record # 169

4. 1822, Salomea Orbik (first time listed as Orbik not Orpik) born to Jan Orbik and Joanna Majewska..Record #3

Osowoy Grad 1807  A Godparent to a birth was Antoni Orpik

Jan Orbik (born 1811) and Marianna:

1. Franciszek Orbik 5 August 1839

2. Wyncent Orbik 7 October 1841

In Osowy Grad 

Jan Orbik (born 1799) and Ewa Zaborowski

1. Marianna Orbik 1838, Marianna Orbik was the Godmother. She married Pawel Zagorski, son of Stanislaw Zagorski and Helena Kierkla in Janowek, parish of Krasnybor on 10 Feb 1861. He was listed as being from Janowek and she was born in Osowy Grad and lived with her parents in Janowek. So apparently Jan Orbik and Ewa Zaborowska Orbik moved here from Osowy Grad sometime between 1851 and 1861. They were listed as gospodarzy. . (Thanks to Krzysztof  Ziecina from Poland).

2. Franciszek Orbik 5 August 1839

3. Ignacy Orbik 8 January 1841

4. Franciszek Orbik 4 Dec 1842

5. Teofil Orbik 6 Dec 1844

6. Antonina Orbik 12 June 1848

7. Franciszka Orbik 1851

In 2007, while searching church records in Augustow church in Poland. I found evidence that this branch actually evolved from the name ORPIK.

Register of inhabitants in Augustow 1801:

1801 Osowy Grad : Jan Orpik  syn, Helena Orpikowna

1802 Osowy Grad: Helena Orpikowna, Dawid Orpik

1803 : Jan   Orbik, Jan Orpik, Marianna Orpikowa, Marcin Orpik, Antoni  Orpik

1805 Osowy Grad: Jan Orpik, Daniel Orpik, Antoni Oprik

1815: Osowy Grad: Stanislaw Orbik, Joanna Orbikowa

Death Record in 1852 in Augustow of Jan Orbik, 80, husband of Joanna Majewski, son of Jan Orbik and Helen Szarwilow. Jan Orbik must have been born around 1772.