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Chrapowicki and related surnames

Francisco C. Krapovickas (View posts)
Posted: 25 Oct 2000 3:54AM GMT
SURNAME CHRAPOWICKI
(or Chrapowicky, Chrapowicz, Chrapowitzky, Krapovicky, Krapovickas, Krapavickas)

By Francisco C. Krapovickas, pranas2@hotmail.com
(with the aid of Mr. David Zincavage)

Nota Bene: As most readersÂ’ browsers will lack the capability of reproducing Polish or Lithuanians accents and Cyrillic fonts, these have been omitted at this time.


The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (then including today’s Belarus and Ukraine) united to form a Commonwealth in 1386. A system of heraldic clans , already in existence in Poland, was extended to Lithuania via the adoption into as many Polish clans of forty-seven Lithuanian and Ruthenian noblemen at Horodlo in 1413. The “Union of Both Nations” was renewed at Lublin in 1569, and endured until its three-stage dismemberment at the hands of Prussia, Austria and Russia in 1772, 1793 and 1795. Poland and Lithuania shared the same political and cultural history from 1386 to 1918, so for all practical purposes, Lithuanian genealogy is the same thing as Polish genealogy.

Chrapowicki (pronounced “Krapovitsky), surname of a polish locational form, whose root would be the polish “chrapac” (to snore). Lithuanized version is Krapavickas and/or Krapovickas, but in historical documents and records we may refer to the Polish spelling Chrapowicki.

The armorials mention:

CHRAPOWICKI

Arms Gozdawa, recorded 1500; from Masovia and from Chrapowice (?) in the district of Panevezys.

One can see the Gozdawa arms at:

http://www.polonium.de/docs/ciekawostki/herby/iso/index.shtm...
or
http://www.gigabit.com.pl/herby/index.htm


From which family:

Jan Antoni was castellan of Smolensk 1697-1703
Jozef was castellan of Mstsislaw 1786-1792, member of the Sejm (diet) 1793
Krzystof was palatine of Witebsk from 1669 to the time of his death in 1683
Another Krzystof was marshall of the Chamber of Deputies 1565-1568
Mikolaj was castellan of Orsha 1793-1796
Antoni was governor of Vitebsk in the XVII century
Jan Andrzej was voivod of Vitebsk 1672
Antoni assigned colonel of the “gendarmerie” (military police) of the department of Vilna by Napoleon (July 1st, 1812)
Josef (died 1812) married Princess Anna Radziwill (d. 1857)
Arkadius married Princess Stephanie Radziwill (1825-1896)
Andrei Vassilievitch Khrapovitskii (1749-1801) major general, private secretary of Catherine II, senator

Sources:
- Kasper Niesiecki, Korona Polska (The Polish Crown), 4 volumes, Lwow, 1728-1744, reprinted as Herbarz Polski (Polish Armorial), in enlarged second edition including Ignacy KrasickiÂ’s Dopiski de Herbarza Niesieckiego (Additions to NiesieckiÂ’s Armorial), 10 volumes, Leipzig, 1839-1846, reprinted 1979 and 1989.
- Lithuanian “Metryca”: government records of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- Jerzy Sewerin Dunin-Borkowski, Spis naswisk szlachty polskiej (A list of the Surnames of the Polish Nobility), Lwow, 1887.
- Seweryn Uruski and A. Kosinski, Rodzina, herbarz szlachty polskiej (The Family: An Armorial of the Polish Nobility), Warsaw, 14 volumes in 9, 1904-1917.
- S.J. Starykon-Kasprzycki, Polska Encyklopedja Szlachecka (Encyclopedia of Polish Nobility, 12 volumes, Warsaw, 1935-1938, reprinted Warsaw, 1994.
- Aleksandras Vanagas, Lietuviu Pavardziu Zodinas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames), 2 volumes, Vilnius, 1985-1989.
- Kazmierz Rymut, Nazwiska Polakow (Polish Surnames), Wroclaw-Warsaw-Cracow, 1991.
- Sergei M. Soloviev, Istorija Rossii n drevneishikh vremen (History of Russia from earliest times), St. Petersburg, 29 volumes, 1851-1879.
- Genealogia Belorusii, (Genealogical tables of Belorussian families from the 16th to 18th centuries), Moscow, 1994.
- Bronius Dundulis, Napoleon et la Lituanie en 1812 (Napoleon and Lithuania in 1812), Paris, 1940
- Jan Antoni Chrapowicki, Diariuzs (Diary), ends of 17th century, reprinted Warsaw, 1978
- Dimitri Merejkovsky, El misterio de Alejandro I (The mystery of Alexander I), Buenos Aires (transl.), 1947
- Daria Olivier, Catherine La Grande (Catherine The Great), Paris, 1965
- Andrei Vassilievitch Khrapovitskii, Dnevnik A.V. Khrapovitskago s 18 ianvaria 1782 po 17 sentiabria 1793 goda (Diary written by memory from 1782 to 1793), Moscow, 1901
- Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich Miloradovich, Rodoslovnaia kniga Chernigovskago dvorianstva (Genealogies of the registers of nobility of Chernigov), 2 volumes, St. Petersburg, 1901
- Vitold Vladisladovich Rummel and Vladimir Vladimirovich Golubtsov, Rodoslovnago sbornik russikikh dvorianskikh familii (Genealogies of titled and untitled noble families of the Russian Empire), 2 volumes, St. Petersburg, 1886-1887














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Re: Chrapowicki and related surnames

Roberta McCaffrey (View posts)
Posted: 30 Mar 2004 8:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Chrapowicz, Hrapowicz
Hi There,

Just came across your info here. I only recently began researching my genealogy and I decend from the Chrapowicki line, I believe. I have to research this further and carefully. My grandfather, John Hrapowicz, came to the US in 1906. I believe that is when he dropped the "C" at the beginning of our name to preserve the pronunciation. He is from Kramerzewo near Bialystok. I have to find his name on a ship manifest to be sure, then try to locate a parish.

Bobbi

Re: Chrapowicki and related surnames

Posted: 24 Jul 2005 6:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Chrapowicz/Chrapowicki
Hi,

So it's months later and farther along in my research. My grandfather, Jan Chrapowicz, was born in 1886 in Kramarzewo. He was baptized Jan Chrapowicki in Wasosz. His father was Franciszek Chrapowicki, a twin with Nikodem Chrapowicki. They were baptised in Wasosz. Their parents were Jozef Chrapowicki born in Kapice and Jozefa Ruszczyk born in Sojczyn-Borowy Poland. Jozef Chrapowicki's parents were Jan Chrapowicki and Jozefa Zielinska. Jozefa Ruszczyk's parents were Maciej Ruszczyk and Katarzyna. Any connections?

Bobbi

Re: Chrapowicki and related surnames

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 7:48PM GMT
Classification: Query
My grand-grand-grandfathers name was Josef Chrepowicki, he was a polish nobelman lived in Poland, he had a manor that was taken away from our family when USSR occupied Poland. Now we live in Belarus and the family name after the ocupation of poland by the former USSR was changed to Cherepovitski.
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