Osobnica - in docum. : Oszownicza,  with Lazy , Leki, Olszyna, Skala, Wysranka  and  Wisniowki, village  in Jasiel county. It lenghens on a flat area with  small heights, in the region between two rivers :  the Ropa and the  Wislok, 254 meters above  sea level (altitude), long ways the Laskowy stream till its mouth  to the Ropa river on the right side. It is on the Lazy-Debowiec road. Osobnica has  2442 inhabitants (1880), and 33 of them  live in the bigger property of  August Delavaux.  But  schematism of  diocese in Przemysl and deanery in Zmigrod  give higher number of inhabitants:  3428 of Catholics and 21 Jew, what can be only  a printer`s errow. There was a prospering weaver industry  among local people. It has a wooden , parish church,  a country school  and  commune loan cash with 762 zlotys of capital. Formerly, Osobnica belonged  to Krakow diocese. By recruits registry in 1581 - Osobnica was a church village in Biecz district, it belonged to  Jan Mniszek, and was rented by  Piotr Broniowski. There were 27 and half lans*, 5 landlords,  12 households with  farmland,  18  tenants** with cattle, 8 tenants  without cattle, 5 craftsmen. The  major estate  has  455  farmland, 44 of meadows, 45 of pastureland, and 147 morgas *** of forest. It is bordered on  the west  by Harklowa,  on the south  by Pagorek, on the east by  Lazy, also  by Debowiec i Brzesc, on the north by Ropa.

** a peasant who had no own house - he had to rent  a room  to live in.
*** morga - unit of land measurement (1 morg = 1.422 acres in  Galicia

From the Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów slowianskich (Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Lands) published between 1880 and 1902. 

Translated by Iwona Dakiniewicz.

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