Miřejovský





HISTORY

Our ancestors lived in a locality comprising the following municipalities - the Podhořany with part of Nový Dvůr and Bukovina - which were the foundation. Eventually, by marrying and probably building their own houses, they reached Březinka, Starkoč, Lipovec, White Stone, Turkovic and others. Mainly by marrying a surname, it appears according to the registry entries at roughly the same time in Podhořany+Nový Dvůr and Bukovina.

From the beginning, the family had a Catholic and evangelical branch. Simplistic Catholics in the Underburners and heretics, then helvéts from Bukovina and a concoction in the New Court. In the context of the attitude to religion at the time, it was pretty significant because these two groups didn't really connect. More specifically, without existential threat, they couldn't even socialize.

Václav Miřejovský from Bukovina is listed in the Confessional Lists of the Archdiocese of Prague from 1671 -1752, part I.sv.2 of Chrudimsko, Čáslavsko - J.V. Shimak 1918, as a heretic, which wasn't funny at the time.

Our ancestors were poor, there weren't many peasants, more like cottagers, homemakers, but also minors. The Lowlanders were better off, they were carpenters. The New Court ones were weavers, apparently working for the choltic factoria.

The first mention, which is perhaps already about one of Miřejovský in our sources, is the entry in the Zbyslavy registry (Zbyslav 01), which states: 6. April (Aprilis) 1661 "christened child John, from where again it was not marked, father Wařejowsky (Warzejowsky) was not written Mařejowsky (Marzejowsky) , mother Magdalena (Mandalyna) , godfather Vit Bureš and Katerina Tkalcowa. If we take notice of the godparents, we will find that he and Vít Bureš, along with Katerina Weaver, were also at the baptism from 1657. Vít Bureš is located as a farmer in Berní roula. Both godparents were from Lovčice.

  • 1. The beginning

    The beginning of the search for our ancestors began in 1996. This year we visited the State Regional Archive Zámrsk with my son. We did not know much about the ancestors' search, but our determination to bite it was big. We recognized the name and birth of my father, the name of my grandfather and the name of my great -grandfathers. ​​ ​​

    Then we paused for a long time, all the duties let us forget the genus. When October 2011 came, during this period we spoke Mrs. Vlasta Pávová (née Miřejovská) from Jihlava, who dealt with our pedigree. In the end it turned out that she was very close to a relative, we have a common ancestor - the father of the grandfathers John (1844).

  • Mierzeja is a Polish word meaning a sandbar or a sand spit. A narrow strip of land surrounded by water on two sides.

    In the Ostroleka region of northeastern Poland, a story is told, according to which the ancestors of their Mierzejewskis came to Poland from Bohemia.

    It might have started with a detachment of warriors from Bohemia who took part in the Battle of Grunwald, between the Teutonic Knights and the Polish King Wladyslaw in 1410.

    Impressed by their bravery, the Polish King granted these men some land on the eastern bank of the Vistula River, opposite from the city of Warsaw.

    These Bohemians then called the place they settled Praga, after the capital of the land they had come from. The land around Praga was not very good, sandy and not fertile. As a result, some time later, these settlers petitioned another king of Poland to grant them land elsewhere, in northeastern Poland. The king agreed and they were allowed to settle near Ostroleka.

    The land in the area is often marshy, and the locals referred to it as mierzeja. The new settlers apparently adopted the term as their family name.

    There are quite a few Mierzejewskis living in the Ostroleka area to this day. (based on a story told by K. Karaszewski of Ostroleka, on July 25, 1989.)

  • Our ancestors came to Bohemia accompanied by Vladislav Jagiellonský.

    The person was either ill or injured and left him in an iron mountains in a fortress or basically die, which he probably failed.

    Based on the narration of the grandmother of the priest of the evangelical congregation in the Upper Krupá David Šorma, who is tied to the Prague branch from Jiřina Miřejovská, married smooth.

  • There are many similar expressions in our Czech regions - Miřetice, Miřejovice and Miřejov. And today we know that the name could have been spelled Mara or Miri , -jo, -je or -ovský. The surname seems to be Czech and its origin can be onomastically interpreted as people who came from the village of Miřejovice near Litoměřice or from the village of Miřejov near Miletín, but it may be derived from the surname Mirovský, which occurs in Heřmanov Městec before the surname Miřejovský.

    The surname Mirovsky is Hebrew and in the registers it is documented that 14 times, in 1739, Jews were baptized from the villages where the Miřejovskis were first found , and they were also spelled Miřowsky, Miřiowsky, Miřinowsky until it became Miřejowsky. However, this family was later staunchly Protestant and after the wars for Silesia part of the family left for Poland. Our documented roots are after Miřejowsky between Čáslav, Chrudim, Heřmanův Městec and Přelouč. This surname is very rare in Bohemia.

    Our surname Miřejovský, is a typical name that was twisted and spelled in different ways and has many forms even within the life of one person, they didn't bother much with it. Surnames were not common at that time, most people are described by cottage and sometimes not even that. Surnames have been compulsory since 1786 ( ordered by Joseph II ).