Mielegiany (Mielagėnai) parish. Which registers survive and from what year
Where it is
Mielegiany (today Mielagėnai in Lithuania) is a small town with a parish church, about twenty kilometres north-east of Święciany (Švenčionys), close to the border with Belarus.
Registers we have read
- Baptisms with marriages, 1802 to 1818
- Lithuanian State Historical Archives in Vilnius (LVIA), fond 604, inventory 10, file 56, available as FamilySearch film 7793569
- Register transcripts, 1820 to 1896
- LVIA, fond 604, inventory 37, files 14, 16, 28, 51, 67, 80, 81, 82, 115, 120, 126
- Parish baptism register with entries from 1825 or 1831
- LVIA, fond 3007, inventory 41, file 1
- Premarital examinations, 1827 to 1855
- LVIA, fond 3007, inventory 41, files 2, 3, 4
- Parish census lists, 1862 to 1865
- LVIA, fond 3007, inventory 41, file 9
These are the registers we have read ourselves. This is not a complete list of the registers of this parish.
Fond 3007 holds the registers kept by the parish itself. Fond 604 holds the transcripts the parish priest sent to the church authorities every year.
The 1820 record is written in Latin. Later registers are also in Polish or in Russian.
Surnames read in these registers
- Cybulski: records from 1820, 1822, 1830, 1847, 1859, 1887
- Bojaruniec: 1817, 1825, 1860
- Narkielun: 1803, 1831, 1837
- Filipowicz: 1802, 1808
Places named in these records: Lejpuszki, Malkowszczyzna, Dubiszki, Mitasze, Jedańce, Tumentany.
One record in full
Marriage of Tomasz Cybulski to Dorota Cybulska, 7 November 1820
Original text (Latin, with one omission)
Anno 1820. die 7 9bris […] benedixi Matrimonium inter Thomam Cybulski Juvenem et Dorotham Cybulska Virginem, utrq[ue] Conditionis plebeae. Praesentibus Stephano Cybulski et Christophoro Bordzian[?].
In English
In the year 1820, on the 7th of November, I blessed the marriage between Tomasz Cybulski, a bachelor, with Dorota Cybulska, a maiden, both of peasant condition. Present were Stefan Cybulski with Krzysztof Bordzian (surname uncertain).
Archive reference
LVIA, fond 604, inventory 37, file 14, record 18 of 1820.
What we do not know
We do not put unclearly written surnames on the list above.
We have not read the registers of this parish from before 1802. We do not know whether they survive.
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