Kalinowski Family History & Genealogy

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Kalinowski family
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Kalinowski
POL COA Kalinowa.svg
Kalinowa
Ethnicity Polish, Ruthenian
Members Marcin Kalinowski
Connected families Potocki
Kalinowski was a notable Polish noble family, like many other Szlachta houses of the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Duchy of Ruthenia, later prominent in Polish, and to a lesser extent, in Belarusian history. They are descended from Andrzej Kalinowski (1465 – 1531). They used the Kalinowa Coat of Arms.


Contents
1 Notable members
2 Notable people with the same surname, but not part of that family
3 Coat of arms
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Notable members[edit]
Marcin Kalinowski[1] (ca 1605 - 1652)
Notable people with the same surname, but not part of that family[edit]
Raphael Kalinowski (September 1, 1835, Vilna - November 15, 1907, Wadowice)
Konstanty Kalinowski (1838, Mostowlany - March 24, 1864, Vilna)
Coat of arms[edit]
The family used the Kalinowa Coat of Arms.


Coat of Arms of Counts Kalinowski
See also[edit]
Czernihów Voivodeship
Lucio Bini
Albin Dunajewski
Ostrołęka
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Kasper Niesiecki, Herbarz Polski, Leipzig, 1840, Vol. 5, p. 10-16.
External links[edit]
Kalinowski

Name Origin

Kalinowski
Created by Administrator Account in 7/3/2010 2:19:56 PM

… I've been following Gen-pol question and answers and am really impressed by the professionalism of folks in geneaological research. The knowledge of history has certainly been interesting and pertinent. Since I am just getting started on our family tree I would ask that you allow me to impose on you for information as to the origin and meaning of the Kalinowski name.

Genpol is a very impressive group -- we have a lot of knowledgeable folks who share information, and we've been spared most of the "flame wars" so common on other Internet groups. I think anyone interested in Polish genealogy who doesn't keep up with Genpol is missing a bet.

As for Kalinowski, it is a very common name; as of 1990 there were some 30,012 Polish citizens by this name, living all over the country. The basic root of the name is kalina, "guelder rose, cranberry tree," according to Polish name expert Kazimierz Rymut. But names ending in -owski are adjectival in form and usually (not always, but usually) began as references to a connection between a particular person or family and a place with a similar name, typically ending in -ow, -owo, -owa, or some other possibilities. Thus Kalinowski means literally "of, from, pertaining to Kalinow, Kalinowo, Kalinowa, etc." If a family was noble, that would typically be the name of the estate they owned; if peasant, they probably lived or worked there, or traveled there often on business, something like that.

The problem is that this surname -- like many -owski names -- can refer to any of numerous towns and villages. There are quite a few Kalinow's, Kalinowa's, Kalinowo's, etc. in Poland, and the name could have begun in connection with any or all of them; that's probably why the name is so common. Those places, in turn, got their names because they were places where guelder roses or cranberry trees were plentiful. So functionally we'd interpret Kalinowski as "person from Kalinow/a/o, etc.," but a literal translation would be "place of the guelder roses."

These surnames derived from place names seem to promise us help with tracking down our ancestors, but usually disappoint us precisely because so few place names are unique; if you find one Kalinow/o/a you may easily find 3 or 4 or even 20! For what it's worth, that's the way it works with most names; not many provide really helpful clues.

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Ethnicity Polish, Ruthenian

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Early Kalinowskis

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