Konozas in Jaminy Parish
This family was the founders of the village of Polkowo in the parish of Jaminy. The Konozas, Polkowski/Litwinski, and Chata/Hata families show up in church and court records together.
Marriage in 1722 in Barglow Koscielny Parish of Mathias Konoza and Anna Orbik - Record 67.
19 Feb 1821, Antoni Konoza married Angela Pięcikowa.
12 Oct 1824 in Mogilice, Andreas Konoza married Rozalia Andrukowna.
1876 in Woznawies, Barglow-Kocielny Parish, marriage of Stanislaw Wojciech Konoza and Rozalia Kuberska. #25
1881 in Barglowka, Barglow-Kocielny Parish, marriage of Franciszek Konoza and Marianna Kotwska. #51
Below is the story of the Konozas from Polkowo. I found this on a website run by Mimi Kanoza. I have the actual case records she mentions below and will put them up as soon as I have them translated. These records show that Konozas were the original owners of the land and they as well as my relatives Polkowskis, Liwinskis, and Chatas and many other villagers of Polkowo challenged new taxes imposed by Anna Rostkowka, widow of General Antoni Rostkowski, owner of the nearby Tayno Estate.
THE STORY OF POLKOWO
from http://www.geocities.com/mkonoz/polkowo.html
Mimi Kanoza -Webmaster
June 23, 1582 -- POLKOWO FOUNDED...Augustow, Poland (Suwalki Province) County
official issues decree from city of Rajgrod (northwest of Polkowo) granting
peasants Mark and Elizabeth Konoza the right to settle on the hillock of Polikow
(later referred to as the village of Polkowo) near the river Bierza (current day
Biebrza National Park) May 3, 1585 -- Queen Anna issues a decree from Warsaw
confirming the land grant
1587 -- Boundaries of Polkowo are determined to be 5 wlok (approximately 150
acres)
September 13, 1639 -- Rajgrod court lowers rent for land from 50zl to 10zl
1661 -- Land grant reaffirmed by King Kazimierz
1664 -- Decendents thrived and multiplied consisting of five families.
1777 -- An armed conflict arose when a landlord of the royal
estates chose to impose on the citizens of Polkowo demands for labor, additional
payments and higher rents; these citizens initiated a lawsuit (litigants
included Mateusz and Marianna Kawalkow Konoza) in the royal court which took
several years to resolve; allegations were that the landlord conducted raids of
the village, taking oxen, horses and personal possessions; they were also
accused of assaults
1778 -- The court sent a special commission to investigate, which found for the
villagers and relieved them of additional requirements; an appeal suspended the
ruling
1781 -- A subsequent commission again held for the villagers, but their lease
payments were increased to 200 zl; "Polkowianie" (the people of Polkowo) now
consist of 20 hamlets In the late eighteenth century the villages of Polkowo,
Kopytkowo and Jasionowo, were collectively referred to as Bojary
(information courtesy of Ken Kanoza of 2205 Liberty St., Erie, PA 16502, by
way of his cousin Edward Kanoza in the USA from Stanislaw Kanoza near Polkowo,
Poland--interestingly his grandfather's name was spelled Konoza; this data is
from a text translation of the book of Polish archives, The History of
Settlement from the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, done by Maciej
(Mitch) Drobniewski, who is Stanislaw Kanoza's daughter's son)