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Gopen from Kobylnik (Narocz today, in Belarus)

Gopen from Kobylnik (Narocz today, in Belarus)

markiewicz (View posts)
Posted: 28 Jan 2005 11:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
My grand grand mother, Efrosyne, born around 1882, in Poland or Lituania, got married with Kazimierz (Casimir) Markiewicz, in Kobylnik (Narocz today in Belarus), around 1903. They had three sons : Piotr (my grand father), Cesar, Waclaw, and, two daughters : Maria and Regina-Michalina. Piotr emigrated to France in 1930.
If you are connected to that branch of the Markiewicz or Gopen families, feel free to contact me.
Patrice MARKIEWICZ

Re: Gopen from Kobylnik (Narocz today, in Belarus)

Jerry Baker (View posts)
Posted: 20 Feb 2005 1:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Goplen, Goplerud
The Goplen family come from a place in Norway, near to Synnfjellet Mountain, just west of Lillehammer. Their name is the name of a farm there, which is named after the "Gopla" flowers that grow there. They are a kind of bearded bluebells.
They grow only in a small area of Norway, which includes the vicinity of Synfjellet Mountain, in the vicinity of Nordre Land (Torpa), and Etnedal and Vestre Gausdal, ofValdres, but they don't grow anywhere else.
There was once a farm named "Goplerud," in Sor Aurdal of Valdres, and it dated from at least the mid-1700s, so the goplas proabably grew there at the time it was named.
A current gazetteer shows no "Goplerud" or "Goplen" farm in Norway. It does show a Goplsaetra in the Synnfjellet vicinity
and also a lake named "Goppollvatnet," a bit farther north and
east.
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