Metadata: Archive of the Tomkowicz family from Kobiernice
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- Oddział III, 30-960 Kraków, ul. Sienna 16
- Phone number:
- +48 (12) 422 40 94
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/640/0
- Title:
- Archive of the Tomkowicz family from Kobiernice
- Title (official language):
- Archiwum Tomkowiczów z Kobiernic
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tomkowicz family
- Date(s):
- 1564/1863
- Date note:
- 1620-1863; 1671-1858; 1564-1797; 1773-1794; 1796-1863; 1642-1796; 1772-1797
- Language:
- Latin
- Polish
- Extent:
- 4.4 linear metres (118 units, volumes, folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
According to a 1744 inventory, the Zator-based dominion of the Dunins included: Zator – the castle, the town, and manorial farm; the towns of Wadowice i Kęty; the villages of Kozieniec, Ponikiew, Hobotek, Kaczyna, Rzeki, Trzebieńczyce, Laskowa, Wiglowice, Piotrowice, Dwory, Monowice, Brzezinka, Brzeszcze, Bielany, Kobiernice, Porąbka, Międzybrodzie and Bujaków; and three vogtships: of Zator, Wadowice and Kęty; moreover, inns, cartages, fulling mills, and numerous ponds. Hence, the documents in this fonds basically, if not exclusively, refer to these localities. The records mostly concern legal matters; some fragments have also survived of the economic records, mainly from the 1770s to end of the 18th century. The demesne was divided in 1788 as follows: the inheritance from Zofia Dunin – Prince de Nassau-Siegen; the inheritance from Fryderyk-Piotr Dunin – legacy of Antonina Malczewska; legacy of the inheritors of Marianna Tomkowicz (partly, towns of Kęty and Wadowice, the villages of Kobiernice and Międzybrodzie; the Tomkowiczs owned no other demesnes or estates). A separate group is formed of remnants of records of domain offices (exercising administrative and judicial authority on behalf of the owner): the office of the Dominion of Zator, dated 1773-95 and the office of the Dominion of Kobiernice. Favoured by the local starosts, the economic role of Jews in the town grew during the 18th century. They mainly settled in the suburb of Kamieniec.
The following records contain Jewish-related material:
(29/640/46) ATKob.46 – Register of chimney tax for the borough of Starodub for the year 1781 (re. Jewish residents).
29/640/61 (ATKob 48) – Contracts of Counts Dunin with Jews for logging of wood, sale and purchase of timber.
29/640/54 (ATKob 54) – Inventories of the town Zator and of the demesne of Zator (re. Jewish residents).
29/640/61 (ATKob 61) – Trial of Fryderyk-Piotr Dunin, Starost [(district) governor] of Zator, against Lejzor Lewkowicz, inn keeper of Bielany, 1762–83, quittances, accounts, procedural dossier, materials re. supply of salt by Jews, information on Jewish royal warrants [i.e. suppliers] from the Prussian part of Silesia.
29/640/76 (ATKob 76) – The inn [propinacja] of the Starosty of Zator, 1756-87. Accounts settled with Mojżesz Samuelowicz, publican [arendarz] of the inn of the Starosty of Zator for spirits sold and cereal received in the years 1773-4; publican contracts between the commissioners of the Starosty of Zator from the 1770s and Mojżesz Januszewicz (for the selling of beer, spirits and mead at the inn in the Starosty of Zator) and for the selling of liquor at the inn in the Vogtship [Voytship] of Kęty, accounts settled with the same publican, claims against publicans for debts.
29/640/104 (ATKob 104) – Court record of decrees and cases of supreme courts of the Starost of Zator from the period 16 December 1767-7 May 1779: Jews appearing in civil cases – mainly, loans, debts, etc.
29/640/0/2.12/105; 29/640/0/2.12/106 – Extracts of court transcripts, lawsuits and registers of cases submitted to the starost’s court, mentions of Jews from Zator – mainly, civil cases: debts, financial, etc.
- Archival history:
- Kept over the years by the Tomkowicz family, the records were transferred in 1938, by the last will of the renowned restorer Stanisław Tomkowicz to the State Archives in Krakow. Taking charge of the Dunins’ demesnes in 1743, as custodian of Piotr Dunin’s orphans, Paweł Sanguszko took their family and property-related papers to his residence in Lubartów, where these documents were arranged in an order for the first time. The Dunin family archive was grouped into separate parts in 1795-8, as the estate was distributed amongst the inheritors of Fryderyk-Piotr Dunin and Zofia Dunin. The records of Franciszek-Ksawery Tomkowicz’s legacy, i.e. the villages of Kobiernice and Międzybrodzie, originally part of the Dunin archive, became part of the Tomkowicz family’s archive. The archive of the Rusocki family was lent or donated to Apoloniusz Tomkowicz for use in his historical research by his friend Karol Jordan, proprietor of the demesne of Kozy, grandson of Spytek Jordan, Standard Bearer and Cup Bearer of Oświęcim and Zator.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The first member of the family was Michał Tomkowicz, Captain of the Lithuanian Cavalry, Master of the Pantry of Nowogródek in the first half of the eighteenth century. His son Antoni lent large sums of money to the magnate family Sanguszko against a pledge of the demesne. In exchange of services rendered, the Sanguszkos offered them the hand of their relation Marianna Dunin, daughter of the starost of Zator; this is how the Tomkowicz family took over the demesne of Zator. Franciszek-Ksawery Tomkowicz settled in Kobiernice. His elder son Henryk served with the ‘Congress’ Kingdom’s army and joined the November Insurrection of 1830-1. Apoloniusz, Franciszek-Ksawery’s younger son, settled at Kobiernice since 1834, was proactive with the Economic and Agricultural Committee of the Free City of Krakow and with the committee of the Galician Farming-Managerial Society, and acted as estimator of demesnes with the Noble Court of Tarnów. The second half of the nineteenth century saw the Tomkowicz family resettle in Krakow, where they set about pursuing scholarly research in the fields of history of art and preservation of monuments, Stanisław Tomkowicz excelling among them.
The Dunin lineage’s ancestor was Świętosław-Franciszek Dunin, Standard Bearer of Parnawa [now Pärnu in Estonia; the title was fictitious from 1621/1660 on], regent and castle judge [sędzia grodzki] of Radom (c. 1691), wojski [provincial order officer] and later Master of the Pantry of Sandomierz. His son Jakub travelled across Europe in 1699-1704 as a companion and custodian of the young Mikołaj Radziwiłł, son of Karol-Stanisław Radziwiłł, Grand Chancellor of Lithuania. Fryderyk-Piotr Dunin spent his early years in Dresden, where he was a page to King Augustus III. Engaged in a career with the military, he graduated from Stanisław Leszczyński’s Cadet School in Luneville, France. Back home in 1753, he was granted a colonel patent and was promoted in 1758 to Major General with the Crown’s Army.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Januszewicz, Mojżesz
- Lewkowicz, Lejzor
- Samuelowicz, Mojżesz
- System of arrangement:
-
The fonds is arranged as follows:
A. Tomkowicz family archive:
family-related – nos. 1-18
priora [‘prior items’] inherited from Dunin family – nos. 19-25
held by Tomkowicz family – nos. 26- 27
B. Records from other family archives:
1. Archival material of the Dunin family
‘summary’ registers/breakdowns – nos. 28-30
family-related – nos. 31-44
property/assets-related: demesne of Żuków – nos. 45-48
[Starosty of Zator:]
property-law-related – nos. 49-57
litigation-related – nos. 58-70
tax assigned for the military – nos. 71-73
economic (business-related) – nos. 74-82
demesne of Chmielów – nos. 83-84
municipal realties – nos. 85-87
re. various interests – nos. 88-98
[Public records/files:]
Re. the entire Dukedom of Oświęcim – nos. 99-100
Supreme Court of the Starost – nos. 101-107
2. Archival material of the Rusocki family – no. 108
C. Domanial records:
1.Dominion of Zator – nos. 109-111
2. Dominon of Kobiernice – nos. 112-113
D. Records of rural gromadas [peasant communities] of the demesne of Kobiernice – nos. 114-118
- Access, restrictions:
- If copies (microfilms, scans, photocopies) are available, these will be provided to the researcher. Access to original documents requires the Director’s consent.
- Finding aids:
- Archiwum Tomkowiczów z Kobiernic, ed. by K. Waligórska, Kraków 1961. Accessible in both paper and electronic format at Zamek Wawel [Wawel Castle].
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2017
