Trying to figure out where my grandmother was from but can’t read the handwriting. Can anyone tell me what city/ town/ village this may be?
Trying to figure out where my grandmother was from but can’t read the handwriting. Can anyone tell me what city/ town/ village this may be?
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Looks a bit like misspelled version of Hedwiżyn [pronounced HED-VISION].
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwi%C5%BCyn
You can find it @ 50° 35′ 2″ N, 22° 48′ 30″ E
There’s only one place in the entire country starting with HED.
Here’s the lsit of all the names of cities, towns and villages in Poland as of 2012, may be of some use: https://static.presspublica.pl/red/rp/pdf/prawo/Miejscowo%C5%9Bci_2012.pdf
Honestly looks like “Hedgewick”. Depending on if these are immigration papers and in what country, you have to assume your grandma said her town and the person wrote how it would be spelled in English.
Yea but that’s very English sounding…..so the question is, what sounds like “hedgewick” in Polish. Or maybe this person wrote her address in England?
Jadwigów, Jadwinów, Lędzinek, Radziejów, Radziłów? Fairly sure it would contain “dwi” or “dzi”.