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Cegla family in the world

Cegla family in the world

Posted: 22 Feb 2000 12:23PM GMT
Edited: 23 Sep 2001 8:28PM GMT
I have several Cegla familietrees and would like to share information about the Cegla name. Cegla is a rare surname and we should have a good chance to find out the connection between the Cegla`s in the world. Contact me for working together.

Peter Cegla

Posted: 29 Oct 2000 11:02AM GMT
Edited: 16 Jun 2003 4:24PM GMT
Karl,

I have a Peter Cegla in my database who was born 2-19-1889 and died 1-19-1977 and he married Anna Maday. They had at least two children: Paul and Josephine. Does this sound familiar at all? Many thanks, Shelley Dennis

Peter Cegla

Posted: 9 Nov 2000 10:45AM GMT
Edited: 23 Sep 2001 8:28PM GMT
Thanks for your answer. I know about Peter Cegla. I don`t know if you are interested but Peters parents are John A. Cegla born in Neudorf, Silesia, Germany, born 14.03.1851, died 01.11.1942. His mother was Mary Kulla, born 05.07.1854, died 13.12.1929.
regards
Karl-Heinz Cegla
Posted: 10 Nov 2000 4:56PM GMT
Edited: 16 Jun 2003 4:24PM GMT
Karl,

Many thanks - doing genealogy is a little like doing the world's largest jigsaw puzzle and it's always fun to get new data - at this point I'm not even sure how PEter or Anna Maday figure in my relatives but somewhere way down the line they do. I thank you!

Shelley
Posted: 10 Nov 2000 4:57PM GMT
Edited: 16 Jun 2003 4:24PM GMT
Karl,

Actually I just figured it out - Anna comes from the Maday line and she has a relative that married a Borowiak and my last name is Broviak (Borowiak.) That is where the Maday line comes in and Anna married Peter Cegla. Shelley

Cegla

Rosita (View posts)
Posted: 9 Apr 2001 11:19AM GMT
Hi

There's a whole family in Asuncion Paraguay; I am related to someone that married a Cegla.
It is a jewish last name.

Regards
Posted: 9 Apr 2001 3:22PM GMT
Edited: 16 Jun 2003 4:24PM GMT
Wow, thank you very much!

Cegla Surname

Dolores (View posts)
Posted: 4 Jun 2001 4:19PM GMT
I was born a Cegla, along with my brother Ray. My father was Nicholas born 1915, and his dad was Victor Cegla. Victor came from Poland or nearby Lithuania. Anyone know about my ancestors?

Cegla Surname

Dolores (View posts)
Posted: 4 Jun 2001 4:19PM GMT
I was born a Cegla, along with my brother Ray. My father was Nicholas born 1915, and his dad was Victor Cegla. Victor came from Poland or nearby Lithuania. Anyone know about my ancestors?

Victor Cegla

Posted: 5 Jun 2001 1:37PM GMT
Edited: 23 Sep 2001 8:28PM GMT
Hi Dolores

Sorry but I do not know anything about Victor. I have collected several hundred Cegla back to 1660, but there is no Victor. In the Social Security Death Index i can see that Victor was born 9 August 1888 and he deid Jan. 1964. Do you know the name of his wife?. I found out more about one Cegla by writing a letter to the Soscial Security Death Index. They will send you a copy of the original application. On this copy i could read the parents of the person who deid. So if you write and ask for Victor you will find out about his parents. The request will cost some dollars. I think i paid about 10 dollars. If you find out the name of the parents, please let me know. May be i can find them in my list. I dont know if you know the meaning of the name Cegla. If not, I can send you the following information:
Cegla is a name used by Poles. In Polish it is spelled with a slash ~ over the l.
The Polish letter l is pronounced like English W, so by English phonetic values the name would be pronounced roughly "TSEGG-wah."

Polish name expert Prof. Kazimierz Rymut mentions this name in his book _Nazwiska Polakow_ [The Surnames of Poles]. He says it appears in records as far back as 1369, and does indeed come from the Polish noun: cegl~a_, "brick." That noun came into Polish from German _Ziegel_, which in turn came from the Latin noun: tegula_. Presumably it began as a nickname for an ancestor who made bricks, or sold them, or worked with them, or was somehow associated by others with bricks. Eventually people began calling the kin of this
ancestor by the name, and it developed into a surname.

As of 1990, according to the best data available (the_Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce uzywanych_, "Directory of Surnames in Current Use in Poland," which covers about 94% of the population of Poland), there were 849 Polish citizens named Cegl~a. The largest numbers lived in the following provinces: Kalisz 346, Katowice 96, Kielce 89, Poznan 44, Radom 59, and Wroclaw, 49. This data indicates the name is most common in the area southeast to southwest of the center of the country.

If the name is quite rare even in Poland we must have a good chance to make out together which connection eksists between Ceglas around the world.

Best wishes from Norway to you Dolores
Karl-Heinz
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