Re: LASKER - Lascowitch? Laskevic^iute? Polish? Lithuanian?
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LASKER - Lascowitch? Laskevic^iute? Polish? Lithuanian?
Grace Coffman 2/28/03
That Lithuanian surname ending with "iute" is the unmarried female version of that surname.
The surname is likely spelled "LASKEVIC^IUS" which is what the male surname version would be.
After the Third Partition of Poland and Lithuania in 1795, the nations of Lithuania and Poland ceased to exist.Their lands were divided up among Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
A quasi-Poland was created by Russia which was headed by the Russian czar.The Russian gubernia (Province) of Suwalky (Suvalkija) was included in this quasi-Poland.My mother's parents came from Suvalkija.
For a while, the Russia pushed the fiction that there was a separate Poland but after a number of uprisings by the Lithuanians and Poles (the most recent in 1863), they basically dropped the fiction and treated the area as a regular part of Russia.My grandfather came to the U.S. in 1911 and used a Russian passport.
It's likely that if they were from Suvalkija, they place of birth would be recorded as Poland.As for the spelling of the surname, many of the surnames were recorded with Polish spellings in baptismal records and such.My surname is SADAUSKAS and we are definitely Lithuanian but my ggrandfather baptismal record has him recorded as Jerzy SADOWSKI which is the Polish version of Jurgis SADAUSKAS.
Poland and Lithuania were united from about 1386 until 1795 so they is a great deal of "cross over" which just helps to complicate our genealogy research.
Good luck.
Tom
Researching AMMUTIE(sp?), DARLUN/DARLUNAS, GEGUZ^IS, GRAUZA, KARALIUS, KLIOKYS/KLOKIS, PAC^ESA, PAULAUSKAS, PRASAUSKAS, SADAUSKAS, SENKUS, STEPONAITIS, Z^IUGZ^DA